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Director of Project Delivery Transmission (UK)

United Kingdom | Full-time | Senior Leadership

We are seeking a Director of Project Delivery Transmission to lead large-scale new build and upgrade projects across the UK. This is a high-impact leadership role for an experienced project director with deep expertise in transmission project execution, stakeholder engagement, and large capital programme management

Key Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of transmission project delivery in the UK, ensuring achievement of schedule, quality, cost, and safety targets.
• Establish and oversee a comprehensive PMO system, including planning, risk, schedule, quality, contract, and financial control.
• Manage EPC contractors, design consultancies, suppliers, and subcontractors to ensure compliance with Transmission Owner (NGET/SSEN/SPEN) standards and HSE requirements.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with sales, engineering, supply chain, and factories to ensure seamless order-to-delivery processes.
• Monitor progress against milestones using traffic-light reporting, and provide regular updates to the UK CEO and Group HQ.
• Lead client communications, manage variations, claims, and disputes to ensure customer satisfaction and positive cash flow.
• Build and develop a local delivery team, with responsibility for recruitment, training, and succession planning.
• Approve project spend, resource allocation, and safety incident investigations up to delegated authority level.
• Ensure organisational effectiveness in resource utilisation, both internal and contractor-based.

Experience & Qualifications

• Degree qualified in engineering, business, or a related discipline; advanced professional qualifications preferred.
• 15+ years of project management experience in transmission or power engineering.
• 5+ years delivering projects within the UK/European power market.
• Proven track record managing large-scale projects (£100m+ individual investment).
• Strong expertise in contractual management: NEC3/NEC4, FIDIC, PMI, Prince2 frameworks.
• Financial management of multi-hundred-million-pound projects, with focus on budget returns and early revenue.
• Extensive experience leading geographically diverse teams and engaging senior stakeholders across the supply chain.
• Strong knowledge of UK transmission sector regulations, CDM, and HSE frameworks.
• Skilled in value engineering, risk management, programme delivery, and project refinement to achieve business case requirements.

What Were Looking For

• A strategic leader who thrives in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Proven ability to manage end-to-end delivery of large capital projects, balancing commercial, technical, and regulatory considerations.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust across Transmission Owners, EPCs, consultants, and regulators.
• Results-oriented, resilient, and driven to deliver in a challenging and evolving energy market.

Why Join Us?

This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of the UKs transmission infrastructure delivering critical new build and upgrade projects that will enable the energy transition. You will lead a high-performing project delivery team, drive operational excellence, and have direct accountability for some of the most significant capital investments in the sector.