M Group Energy
Senior Project Manager
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About the Role
Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.
We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.
This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.
What will you be doing?
We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to join M Group, leading the successful delivery of major renewable energy projects across the UK.
As a Senior Project Manager, you'll take responsibility for delivering complex projects from concept through to commissioning and handover, ensuring excellence in safety, quality, programme performance, and commercial outcomes. Working closely with multidisciplinary engineering, construction, and stakeholder teams, you'll provide strategic leadership throughout the project lifecycle while supporting business growth within the renewable energy sector.
This is a hybrid role where you will be required to attend both site and our Birmingham office occasionally.
- Lead the safe and successful delivery of renewable energy and electrical infrastructure projects, ensuring adherence to programme, budget, and quality requirements.
- Manage project teams across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and commercial functions.
- Oversee substation, grid connection, battery energy storage (BESS), solar, wind, and transmission infrastructure projects from development through to energisation.
- Ensure compliance with National Grid standards, client specifications, and regulatory requirements (where required)
- Drive project planning activities, resource allocation, risk management, and performance reporting.
- Lead project governance processes, including project reviews, financial forecasting, and progress reporting.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, consultants, suppliers, contractors, regulatory bodies, and internal stakeholders.
- Identify and mitigate project risks while maximising opportunities throughout the project lifecycle.
- Support procurement strategies and oversee contractor and supplier performance.
- Provide leadership on health, safety, environmental, and sustainability performance across all projects.
- Champion best practice project delivery and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support bid submissions, tender reviews, and business development opportunities within the renewable energy sector.
- Ensure projects meet environmental, social value, and sustainability objectives.
- Support project commissioning, handover, and operational readiness activities.
- Mentor and develop Project Managers, Engineers, and wider delivery teams.
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What You’ll Bring
- Proven experience delivering major renewable energy, transmission, distribution, or utility infrastructure projects.
- Strong understanding of grid connection projects, substations, battery energy storage systems (BESS), solar, wind, or other renewable energy technologies.
- National Grid Substation build experience - including workable knowledge of NG SRs, Rules, EPC / M&E Framework
- Proven leadership on Design and Build projects, managing cross functional teams
- Ability to drive projects through all lifecycle stages from feasibility and design through construction, commissioning, and handover.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills engaging with clients and suppliers
- Qualification in Project Management (APM, PMP etc.)
- Strong commercial experience with NEC contracts
- Demonstrated ability to manage risk and opportunity
- Strong regulatory knowledge including HSWA, CDM, EAWR etc.
- Ability to drive a project through all life cycles
- Experience managing budgets with history of delivery to time and cost
- History of using Project Management software
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What’s in it for you?
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme or car allowance
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
About Us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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