Senior Project Manager; Solar and BESS

Our client is a renewable energy IPP and one of the early movers in utility-scale battery storage, having delivered its first BESS project back in 2014. They design, build, operate and optimise grid-scale solar and storage, and they are now scaling their delivery capability across the Netherlands and Belgium, backed by strong institutional investment.

This is a business that builds assets to own and run over the long term, not simply to sell them on. That long-term view shapes how they deliver: carefully, technically, and with more than a decade of project lessons behind them.

The Northern European pipeline is growing quickly. With grid secured and around 500MW to build before 2031 across the two markets, they need a senior delivery lead to take live projects from pre-construction through to operational readiness. You would own that delivery phase, with an engineer already in place to support you and a clear route to lead the technical delivery function as the portfolio grows.

You will lead the end-to-end delivery of utility-scale BESS projects across the Netherlands and Belgium, picking projects up as they move out of development and driving them through construction, commissioning and handover.

• Take ownership of utility-scale BESS delivery from pre-construction through construction, commissioning and handover to operational readiness
• Drive the design process through into construction, keeping technical decisions moving and grounded in engineering
• Manage the technical and commercial interfaces between BESS OEMs, BoP contractors, HV/MV vendors, grid operators and owner’s engineers
• Own programme, cost, quality, HSE and interface risk across each project
• Review contractor deliverables, specifications, method statements, testing and commissioning plans, and resolve technical issues as they arise
• Coordinate with DSO and TSO stakeholders on grid integration, energisation and compliance
• Support and develop the engineer already in place, building out the delivery team over time

• Proven delivery of at least one large-scale infrastructure project from pre-construction into construction
• A solid engineering understanding, with a structured, fact-based approach
• A background in large-scale ground-mounted solar or onshore wind, or comparable large-scale infrastructure
• The confidence to own the full delivery phase and drive design into build
• Fluent Dutch and English
• Familiarity with the Dutch and Belgian grid connection and permitting landscape
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams, contractors and advisors through execution

• Competitive annual salary
• Company car
• Amsterdam base with 60/40 hybrid working, split between the office, site and home
• The chance to own delivery for a funded, growing pipeline rather than a single project
• A route into the senior technical delivery lead role as the region scales