Senior Project Manager - Electrical

Team Leadership & Resource Management

• Lead and develop Project Managers, Assistant Project Managers and wider project delivery teams.
• Create a collaborative, high-performing and accountable project culture aligned to nuclear safety principles.
• Develop project capability through mentoring, coaching and professional development.
• Ensure effective workforce planning, resource forecasting and deployment of suitably qualified and experienced personnel.
• Promote knowledge sharing, continuous improvement and lessons learned across project teams.
• Ensure appropriate succession planning and capability development within the project organisation.

Stakeholder & Client Management

• Act as a senior client-facing representative for MEP project delivery activities.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, regulators, consultants, contractors, suppliers and key project stakeholders.
• Lead project governance meetings, delivery reviews and strategic planning discussions.
• Ensure effective communication of project status, key risks, opportunities and critical decisions.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and maintain alignment with programme objectives and delivery milestones.
• Support collaborative working across multiple programme interfaces and organisations.

Engineering, Construction & Commissioning Integration

• Provide strategic leadership across the delivery of mechanical systems, electrical systems, HVAC, pipework, public health systems and associated infrastructure.
• Ensure effective coordination between engineering, design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning and operations teams.
• Manage design maturity and ensure engineering outputs support safe and effective construction delivery.
• Support resolution of complex technical, programme and logistical challenges across project interfaces.
• Ensure constructability, operability, maintainability and commissioning requirements are embedded throughout delivery.
• Support commissioning, system turnover and handover activities to ensure safe and efficient transition to operations.

Commercial & Risk Management

• Manage project budgets, forecasts, cost performance and financial reporting.
• Identify, manage and mitigate project risks and opportunities through effective governance and assurance processes.
• Lead change management activities, ensuring robust control of scope, schedule and commercial impacts.
• Support NEC contract administration, compensation events, early warnings, variation management and dispute resolution where required.
• Ensure project objectives remain aligned to commercial commitments and programme outcomes.
• Drive value improvement initiatives whilst maintaining safety, quality and delivery performance.

Quality, Safety & Compliance

• Champion the highest standards of health, safety, environmental and nuclear safety performance.
• Promote and embed a strong nuclear safety culture, including a questioning attitude and continuous improvement mindset.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, licence conditions, quality management systems and project procedures.
• Work closely with Quality, Safety and Assurance teams to achieve project objectives and maintain nuclear quality standards.
• Support supplier audits, surveillance activities, inspections and regulatory interventions.
• Drive improvements in quality performance, right-first-time delivery and assurance compliance across project teams.

Key Success Factors:

The successful Senior Project Manager (MEP) will demonstrate:

• Exceptional leadership and team management capability.
• Strong client-facing, stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience managing large-scale MEP delivery within highly regulated environments.
• Commercial awareness and strategic decision-making capability.
• A strong commitment to nuclear safety, quality and delivery excellence.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning.
• Ability to manage complex project interfaces and drive integration across multiple stakeholders.
• A proactive approach to risk management, problem solving and continuous improvement.
• The ability to balance programme, commercial, quality and safety objectives whilst maintaining collaborative working relationships.

Minimum Qualifications/ Experience

• Degree, HNC or HND in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Building Services Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years' experience delivering major engineering, infrastructure or construction projects.
• Proven track record managing large-scale MEP projects within highly regulated industries such as Nuclear, Energy, Defence, Rail or Petrochemical.
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing project teams and direct reports.
• Professional Project Management qualification such as APM PMQ, Prince2 Practitioner or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of MEP systems, construction delivery, commissioning and project lifecycle management.
• Experience managing project budgets, programme controls, risk, change and commercial performance.
• Strong stakeholder management and client-facing experience.
• Working knowledge of NEC contracts and CDM Regulations.

Desirable Qualifications/ Experience:

• Nuclear sector project delivery experience.
• Experience delivering safety-critical systems within major infrastructure programmes.
• Chartered Engineer, Chartered Project Professional or working towards professional registration.
• Knowledge of nuclear quality assurance requirements and graded approach methodologies.
• Understanding of commissioning, system turnover and operational readiness processes.
• Experience working within highly regulated environments requiring extensive governance and assurance controls.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.