H&S, CDM & Construction Assurance

• Provide strong H&S and CDM oversight from the client perspective, including appointments, competence, design risk management and construction-phase arrangements.
• Promote a proactive safety culture and intervene where project arrangements, contractor performance or site conditions do not meet required standards.
• Ensure appropriate client-side governance, assurance and escalation is maintained throughout mobilisation and construction.
• Work with project teams and specialist advisers to ensure construction risks are understood, allocated and actively managed.

Quality, Commissioning & Handover

• Oversee construction quality and technical assurance, including Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), hold and witness points, non-conformance reports (NCRs), snagging and progressive handover documentation.
• Ensure quality issues are identified early, appropriately escalated and driven to satisfactory close-out.
• Oversee readiness for testing, commissioning, energisation, takeover and handover, ensuring responsibilities and interfaces are clearly defined.
• Ensure project records, completion evidence, as-built information, O&M documentation and outstanding actions are appropriately controlled through close-out.

Interface & Stakeholder Management

• Manage interfaces between EPC contractors, BESS/OEM suppliers, grid contractors, designers, consultants, utilities and other package contractors to prevent scope gaps and interface risks.
• Act as the senior internal Elements Green counterpart to external Project Director(s), converting advice and recommendations into clear internal actions and decisions.
• Coordinate internal stakeholders across Development, Planning, Grid, Technical, Commercial, Legal, Finance and Investment to ensure timely decisions and aligned project delivery.
• Represent Elements Green professionally in senior contractor, supplier, consultant and project meetings and negotiations.
• Communicate complex construction, contractual and commercial matters clearly to senior management, highlighting material risks, options and decisions required.

Team Leadership & Development

• Provide direct senior oversight, coaching and support to internal Project Managers and colleagues operating in Employer’s Representative or delivery roles.
• Provide senior project-delivery oversight where Development, Planning, Land and other pre-construction workstreams interface with RTB, mobilisation and construction, without replacing functional ownership.
• Act as an escalation point for complex project-delivery issues and help team members work through construction, programme, contractual and commercial matters before escalation.
• Develop internal construction and project-delivery capability by sharing lessons learned, strengthening decision-making and embedding consistent good practice across the portfolio.
• Promote a high-performance culture based on ownership, collaboration, commercial awareness and proactive management of risk.

Governance & Portfolio Responsibilities

• Provide the UK Managing Director with a consolidated and independent internal view of programme, construction progress, contractual and commercial position, H&S, quality, key risks and decisions required across construction projects.
• Make appropriate project decisions within agreed delegated authority, escalating only material matters requiring UK Managing Director, Investment Committee or Board involvement.
• Establish and maintain consistent project reporting, governance, risk, programme, change-control and construction-management processes across the UK portfolio.
• Support portfolio planning by identifying resource, delivery and capability requirements across concurrent mobilisation and construction programmes.
• Capture and embed lessons learned across projects to improve delivery assurance, reduce risk and protect project value.

Candidate Profile

Essential Experience

• Significant client-side delivery experience on major infrastructure, energy or comparable construction projects.
• Demonstrable experience taking major projects through mobilisation and construction to commissioning, completion, handover and close-out.
• Strong contractual experience administering EPC, NEC, FIDIC or comparable construction and supply contracts.
• Demonstrable experience managing and challenging EPC contractors and multiple supplier/package interfaces.
• Strong programme and critical-path management capability, including delay analysis, mitigation and recovery planning.
• Commercial awareness and practical experience of claims, variations, change control, payment milestones and cost exposure.
• Practical H&S and CDM knowledge from the client / owner perspective.
• Regular site-based construction experience and confidence operating directly with contractors, designers, consultants and suppliers.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary internal teams and external advisers on complex infrastructure projects.
• Ability to lead, coach and support Project Managers while operating confidently with senior executives and professional advisers.
• Sound judgement and the confidence to make decisions within delegated authority on behalf of the business.

Desirable Experience

• Direct delivery experience with utility-scale BESS, Solar PV or other UK power-sector infrastructure.
• Experience of grid-connected projects involving NGET, DNOs and/or NESO interfaces.
• Experience working with battery OEMs, electrical balance-of-plant contractors and major equipment suppliers.
• Relevant construction safety training or credentials.
• Experience supporting technical and construction due diligence for project acquisitions and investment decisions.
• Experience operating in an owner/developer organisation managing multiple concurrent projects and external delivery partners.

Skills & Competencies

The successful candidate is expected to demonstrate:

• Leadership: Provides clear direction, establishes accountability and develops the capability of project teams.
• Project ownership: Takes responsibility for delivery outcomes and drives issues through to resolution rather than simply coordinating activity.
• Construction judgement: Understands how design, sequencing, interfaces, site conditions and contractor performance affect safe and successful delivery.
• Commercial judgement: Understands the relationship between contractual position, programme, change, cost exposure and project value.
• Programme management: Maintains focus on critical-path activities, dependencies and recovery actions across complex multi-party programmes.
• Risk management: Identifies material issues early and develops practical mitigation and escalation strategies.
• Decision-making: Comfortable making timely decisions within delegated authority and clearly communicating assumptions, risks and consequences.
• Stakeholder management: Builds effective working relationships while appropriately challenging contractors, suppliers, consultants and internal stakeholders.
• Communication: Able to communicate technical, contractual and commercial matters clearly to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
• Collaboration: Works effectively across Development, Planning, Grid, Technical, Commercial, Legal, Finance and Investment functions.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent professional experience in a relevant infrastructure discipline; professional accreditation, project management and/or construction H&S / CDM qualifications would be advantageous.