Senior Project Manager

Contract & Commercial Management

• Administer projects under NEC4 contract governance, including early warnings, compensation events, change control, and communications.
• Maintain robust cost management practices: forecasting, cost tracking, budget control, and financial reporting.

Technical & Construction Management

• Oversee construction activities within HV environments, ensuring safe working practices and adherence to relevant standards.
• Manage subcontractors effectively: performance, quality, progress, and compliance with contractual obligations.
• Coordinate with engineering, commissioning, and operational teams to ensure quality of delivery.

Risk & Opportunity Management

• Lead risk identification, assessment, and mitigation activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Drive opportunity realization to improve programme, cost, or technical outcomes.
• Maintain and report on project risk registers and mitigation strategies.

Stakeholder & Interface Management

• Act as the primary point of contact for clients, subcontractors, suppliers, and internal teams.
• Ensure strong communication and collaboration across engineering, commercial, HSE, and operational teams.
• Prepare and present project progress reports, dashboards, and performance updates.

Health, Safety & Environment

• Promote and enforce a strong safety culture, ensuring compliance with HV safety rules, CDM regulations, and company HSE policies.
• Support environmental compliance and sustainability objectives throughout project delivery.

About You (Required Experience & Skills)

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or project management.

• Proven experience managing HV substation or transmission/distribution projects.
• Strong understanding of NEC4 contract mechanisms and commercial governance.
• Demonstrable experience managing multiple subcontractors and designers and interfaces.
• Programme management skills
• Cost management and financial reporting capability.
• Experience in risk mitigation and opportunity realisation
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Demonstrated commitment to health, safety, quality and environmental compliance.
• Experience in working with transmission connected Clients.

Desirable

• Project management qualifications (APM, PRINCE2, PMP).
• Heavy civil or mechanical and electric engineering background.

What we offer:

In return, we offer a wide range of rewards and benefits:

• Benefits: 25 days holiday entitlement + Statutory and public holidays + Additional 3 (three) days holiday available on our purchase scheme
• Life Assurance and Career Progression

About Linxon:

Our heritage

We combine Atkins Realis's project management expertise and Hitachi Energy’s industry leading technological knowledge into a company dedicated to substations. We deliver sustainable energy solutions and act as a true partner to facilitate the digital transformation for those who depend on consistent reliability.

Our vision

We are the partner of choice for our customers for our comprehensive solution portfolio

Linxon delivers the best market offer of EPC projects through world-class power technologies and the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure activities. We want to meet and exceed the expectations of our customers and partners whilst complying with the highest standards of quality, safety, efficiency and sustainability.

Our purpose

We are building the infrastructure to power the world with carbon free energy

Linxon is driving sustainability by building vital infrastructure for the energy transition. We help cities grow, industries expand, and communities thrive by building a crucial part of the power transmission grid. Linxon combines the accumulated knowhow of original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and project execution capabilities so that customers benefit from efficient and continuously improved solutions and increased industrial productivity.

“Building the infrastructure to power the world”

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At Linxon, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.