OCU
Project Manager

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Department: Regulated Power
Location: Greenwich
Description
Location: Greenwich
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full-Time
Office & Site Based
Regular Travel
Pay / Benefits: Remuneration for this role is benchmarked competitively within our sector.
The Opportunity
OCU is delivering critical electrical infrastructure projects that help power homes, businesses, and communities across the UK. As a Project Manager, you'll take ownership of projects from pre-construction through to final completion, ensuring safe delivery, strong commercial performance, and exceptional service for our clients.
This is a fantastic opportunity to lead diverse project teams, build strong client relationships, and play a key role in delivering essential utility infrastructure. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy balancing operational, commercial, and client-facing responsibilities, this could be the role for you.
What You'll Do
- Lead the delivery of electrical infrastructure projects from mobilisation through to completion.
- Coordinate project planning activities, ensuring projects are effectively resourced and prepared for delivery.
- Drive compliance with health, safety, environmental, and quality requirements across all project activities.
- Manage site teams and subcontractors, ensuring work is delivered safely, efficiently, and to the required standards.
- Monitor project programmes, budgets, and performance, implementing solutions to maintain successful delivery.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with clients and key stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
- Review drawings, specifications, and project documentation to support successful site delivery.
- Communicate commercial changes, risks, and opportunities to ensure effective project control and reporting.
- Mentor and support junior team members, helping to develop capability across the business.
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What You'll Bring
- Proven experience delivering projects within utilities, infrastructure, or engineering environments.
- Experience managing multiple projects and coordinating operational delivery teams.
- SMSTS qualification.
- NRSWA qualification.
- Strong understanding of project delivery, programme management, and site operations.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
- Good commercial awareness and understanding of project cost control.
- Full UK driving licence.
Desirable
- Experience within the electrical infrastructure, power, or utility sectors.
- Bonus if you have experience administering NEC contracts or managing NEC project delivery.
- It would be great if you hold a project management qualification such as PRINCE2, PMQ, or equivalent.
- It would be great if you hold an HNC or HND in a relevant engineering or construction discipline.
- First Aid, NEBOSH, Temporary Works Coordinator, UKPN Substation Entry, or BESC qualifications would be advantageous.
- Experience managing change control and claims processes would be beneficial.


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What We Offer
At OCU, we believe that meaningful work should come with meaningful support. That's the principle behind Careers with Purpose, our commitment to ensuring every person at OCU feels supported, developed, and valued, not just in their role today, but throughout their career with us.
Alongside the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects, we offer a benefits package that we are continuing to develop as we grow, and the kind of career acceleration that only comes from being inside a business moving at this pace.
As a rapidly growing organisation, there are genuine opportunities to progress, broaden your experience, and build a long-term career within OCU Group.
For a confidential conversation about this opportunity, please contact Jonathan Bryden at jonathan.bryden@ocugroup.com.
Our vacancies are typically advertised for two weeks; however, we reserve the right to close applications early should we receive a sufficient number of suitable candidates. We therefore encourage early applications.
To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing recruitment@ocugroup.com.
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