Project Development Manager

Astute’s Renewables Team is very proudly partnered with a company in the UK’s biogas sector that is progressing forward with some strategic development. As a result, we are looking for a Project Development Manager to join them.

The strategically important Project Development Manager role comes with a competitive salary, pension, and the opportunity to play a key role in delivering major AD and biomethane projects through to Final Investment Decision and beyond.

If you’re a Project Development Manager and are looking to work for an organisation that is helping drive the UK’s renewable energy transition whilst delivering technically complex infrastructure projects, then submit your CV to apply today.

Reporting to the Senior Leadership Team you will:

• Lead anaerobic digestion and biomethane projects through feasibility, FEED and pre‑construction phases through to Final Investment Decision (FID).
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering, commercial and development teams to ensure projects remain technically and commercially viable.
• Manage project development programmes including planning, permitting, feedstock strategy, utilities connections and digestate management.
• Support investment and commercial teams with project modelling assumptions including CAPEX, OPEX, revenues and risk assessments.
• Oversee procurement and contracting strategies including EPC, EPCM and multi‑package delivery models.
• Manage development budgets, project schedules and risk registers throughout the development lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with relevant HSE, environmental, permitting and gas/grid regulations.
• Support technology selection, contractor engagement and vendor management activities.
• Prepare project governance materials for executive and investment committee review.
• Act as the key point of accountability for projects progressing through development to FID.

We are looking for someone with the following:

• Proven experience delivering complex infrastructure, energy or process engineering projects through development phases.
• A degree in a relevant energy or engineering field.
• Strong commercial understanding including project economics, investment cases and risk management.
• Technical background within anaerobic digestion, biomethane, process engineering or a related sector would be highly advantageous.
• Strong understanding of project controls, cost estimating and scheduling processes.
• Knowledge of UK permitting, planning and regulatory requirements within the energy or infrastructure sector.

The Project Development Manager role would suit someone who is:

• Commercially astute with a strong investment mindset.
• Comfortable managing multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• A confident communicator capable of presenting technical and financial information clearly.

• Competitive salary.
• Company pension.
• Typically 3 days in the office.
• Opportunity to work on strategically important renewable energy infrastructure projects.
• Long‑term progression opportunities within a growing business sector.