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Contracts Manager – Design & Build Substations and HV Cabling for New Connections – EPC
People in Power | South Wales
HV / EHV Substations & New Connections – Up to 400kV
About People in Power
People in Power is a specialist recruitment consultancy operating across the Transmission & Distribution and wider power infrastructure market throughout the UK and Europe. We offer a very different service to traditional recruitment agencies, partnering directly with Directors and senior leadership teams across leading EPCs and ICPs to provide consultative and strategic recruitment support for major power infrastructure programmes. We are currently supporting a leading EPC with the appointment of an experienced Contracts Manager to oversee its growing portfolio of new connections projects across South Wales.
The Role
The Contracts Manager will take overall responsibility for the successful delivery of a portfolio of major HV/EHV substation and associated cabling projects, primarily supporting new connections for large-scale data centre and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) developments. This is a senior leadership role, sitting above the Senior Project Management function, with accountability for multiple live projects, delivery performance, commercial outcomes and client relationships across the region. You will provide strategic and operational oversight from design and mobilisation through construction, commissioning, energisation and final handover.
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Key Responsibilities
- Overall responsibility for a portfolio of major substation and HV new connection projects
- Lead, manage and develop Senior Project Managers and Project Managers
- Provide senior oversight of programme, cost, risk, quality and HSEQ performance
- Ensure robust commercial control, contract compliance and margin protection across all projects
- Manage key client, DNO and strategic stakeholder relationships at senior level
- Oversee design, procurement, construction and commissioning strategies across the portfolio
- Drive consistency in project delivery, governance and reporting standards
- Intervene in live projects to resolve delivery, commercial or programme issues
- Coordinate resource allocation and prioritisation across multiple projects
- Work closely with Commercial, Planning, Design and Commissioning leadership teams
- Ensure successful energisation, completion and handover of all projects
- Support business growth through strong client relationships and repeat work opportunities
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About You
You will have significant experience delivering and/or overseeing HV/EHV substation and new connection projects within an EPC, ICP, DNO or major power infrastructure contractor environment. You will ideally have:
- Experience operating at Contracts Manager or equivalent senior delivery level
- Strong background in 132kV and above HV/EHV infrastructure delivery
- Proven experience managing multiple concurrent projects or a project portfolio
- Strong commercial, contractual and risk management capability
- Excellent client-facing and stakeholder management skills at senior level
- Experience leading and developing Senior Project Managers and delivery teams
- A track record of successfully delivering complex power infrastructure programmes
This is a key leadership appointment within a growing EPC business delivering major data centre and BESS grid connection projects across South Wales.
Location: South Wales
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