Base Location: For this role, we require successful applicants to be based from one of our Scottish locations and you'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in the office – Lerwick, Perth, Aberdeen or Inverness.
Salary: £58,100 - £87,100 + car /car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.
Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time Flexible First options available
The role
SSEN Transmission’s Offshore Delivery Team is currently recruiting for a Senior Project Manager to deliver projects within the Shetland AC portfolio that shall directly facilitate Scotland's ambitions to meet Net Zero. Reporting to a Lead Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing a multi-disciplinary project team and framework supply chain partners to ensure projects are delivered safely and in line with the business case.
The scale of our portfolio of projects is already large and is likely to grow in the coming years, meaning there will likely be opportunities for progression within the business.
You will
- Be accountable to the business for the safety, health, and wellbeing of all personnel, and for environmental aspects of those projects being managed.
- Manage project teams and contract partners providing regular leadership on site. You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with all legal, regulatory, and internal processes and governance.
- Have Commercial responsibilities, including contract negotiation and management as well as budgetary responsibilities.
- Provide guidance and demonstrate our core values. Manage teams, ensuring these are highly capable, well-motivated and organised to deliver consistent excellence.
- Identify business process improvements and support colleagues and the business to develop and implement these.
To be considered for the Senior Project Manager position we are looking for an experienced Manager with demonstrable experience in managing technically complex large capital projects.
You have
- A proven track record of leading and safely delivering projects or programmes of work through the whole lifecycle to cost, schedule and quality in the Transmission, Construction, Energy, or other regulated industry / the wider utilities sector.
- An engineering, construction, or project management qualification/degree or equivalent experience.

