Completions & Warranties Manager; North East, Shetland, Tayside

Base

Location:

For this role, we require successful applicants to be based in one of our Argyll, Dundee, Perth or Aberdeen offices and you'll be expected to spend a minimum of 50% of your working week in the office or supporting site activities.

Salary: 59,800 - 89,800 + car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern:
Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The role

As Completions & Warranties Manager, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the safe, secure and effective handover of capital projects into SSEN Transmission Operations. You’ll support the transition of newly commissioned assets from project delivery into operational ownership, ensuring that documentation, training, defects and warranty arrangements are complete, accurate and ready for acceptance.

Reporting to the Head of Operations, you’ll work closely with the Operations and Network Integrity Managers, Project Managers, contractors and commercial teams to confirm handover readiness, manage Gate 5 closeout activities and safeguard the interests of SSEN Transmission through any warranty and defect liability periods.

You will Support the safe, secure and compliant handover of capital projects into Operations, ensuring delivered assets and associated documentation are complete, accurate and ready for  Gate 5 closeout activity, working with Operations, Engineering, Capital Delivery and contractors to confirm completion of works, training, as-built information, Health and Safety Files and maintenance requirements.

Manage newly commissioned assets through warranty and defect liability periods, recording, analysing, trending and communicating defects, notifiable issues and performance concerns.

Provide clear reporting on project completion, warranty performance, remedial works, OPEX impacts and relevant KPIs to support effective decision-making and governance.

Build strong working relationships across Operations, Engineering, Capital Delivery, Procurement, Commercial, contractors and other stakeholders, providing advice and recommendations on handover readiness, contractor performance and operational standards.

You have Experience working within electricity transmission, utilities, major infrastructure, capital projects or a similarly complex operational environment.

Good understanding of project handover, operational acceptance, warranty management, closeout processes and the interfaces between project delivery and operational teams.

Knowledge of relevant safety, quality and regulatory requirements, including CDM Regulations, ESQCR, Health and Safety at Work requirements and Operational Safety Rules.

Strong planning, organisational, analytical and reporting skills, with the ability to interpret information, identify risks and communicate issues clearly to stakeholders.

Confident communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across internal teams, contractors, suppliers and commercial stakeholders.

About SSESSE’s purpose is to be restless every day until we make electricity clean, affordable and available for all.

We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. This includes electricity transmission and distribution networks, onshore and offshore wind farms, hydro-electric power and flexible thermal generation. We also provide products and services for businesses and other customers.

Our investment plan will see SSE invest 33bn in critical electricity infrastructure to 2030.SSEN Transmission own and operate the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland. We transport electricity from where it is…