Project Manager – Electrical
The Project Manager is responsible for the on-site supervision and coordination of ICP electricity and civils projects, working closely with the assigned project team to ensure the successful delivery of schemes in a timely and accurate manner.
Key Responsibilities:
Project Management
• Supervise multiple teams of sub-contractors, ensuring projects are completed on time and to the highest standards.
• Attend on-site meetings with key stakeholders, providing expert knowledge and insight to ensure the proposed scope considers efficient cost savings while maintaining all requirements.
• Produce meeting minutes outlining necessary actions for the project team.
• Manage multiple projects across a range of clients, ensuring timely updates on any project changes.
• Identify the council authority based on the project site address, oversee section 50 applications, and review traffic management plans.
• Identify gas, electricity, sewer, and water networks based on site address and postcode.
• Assist in the application for STAT plans, including gas, electricity, water, sewer, telecoms, and TFL.
• Know, on demand, lead times for obtaining quotations for electrical connections for both DNO and IDNOs.
• Know, on demand, delivery times for new electricity connections for both DNO and IDNO.
• Advanced knowledge of gas, electricity, and water connections (gas and water knowledge advantageous).
• Advanced knowledge of telecoms, sewer, and traffic management.
• Advanced knowledge of NJUG requirements.
• Advanced knowledge of electricity and gas metering.
• Knowledge of BNO/IDNO/Electrician metering options and cost/benefits of each option.
• Interrogate and challenge network designs to achieve the best value/technical solution for the client.
• Advanced knowledge of excavations and civils.
• Advanced knowledge of street works, including traffic management, road closures, and diversions (Street Works Supervisor certification is a minimum requirement).
• Knowledge of using CAT and Genny and GPR devices to record the location of utilities.
• Train, educate, and develop staff on the skills and processes listed above.
Supplier Management
• Interact professionally with suppliers to obtain relevant project information.
• Chase suppliers for information/project deliverables in a professional manner.
• Build strong supplier relationships.
• Source new suppliers, ensuring they meet ‘fit for purpose’ criteria and identifying the best suppliers for the client's scope of work.
• Understand and stay up to date with supplier processes.
• Liaise with suppliers and agents to ensure clarity on deliverables, costs, and time scales, ensuring these are met.
• Proactively identify where suppliers are not achieving SLAs and escalate accordingly.
• Identify where a supplier quotation varies from the client’s requested scope of work.
• Manage supplier payments in line with project progress and contractual obligations.
Account Management
• Interact professionally with clients and project stakeholders, managing their expectations in line with the project program and associated risks, ensuring a positive experience.
• Answer calls professionally and build rapport with key stakeholders.
• Send professional emails in keeping with company standards.
• Handle difficult conversations within the context of the construction industry.
• Provide advice to clients on how load may affect the price paid or technical solution for their project and flag where slight changes in load may reduce costs/improve buildability/improve GVA.
• Identify and close cross-sale opportunities on projects.
• Build client profiles and map client companies based on interactions and individual research.
• Attend client, design team, traffic management, and council meetings.
• Attend pre-meter and metering visits to ensure site readiness for installation.
Commercial Management
• Have an excellent understanding of the company’s business model and the different services offered.
• Prepare project review packs in accordance with company standards to ensure projects are commercially viable, identifying errors in pricing, VAT, or T&Cs in EE Quotes/Fee Proposals.
• Review quotations to ensure they contain our Special Conditions, preventing the incorporation of the client's terms and conditions and limiting liability to contract value.
• Identify where risk exposure is above £10k and pass the project to the commercial team for review.
• Ensure any suppliers have been audited by the commercial team and contain at least £5m liability insurance (public/employers).
• Identify terms within a supplier’s quotation that expose us or the client to risk and flag these to the commercial team.
• Ensure our terms and conditions are back-to-back with the supplier’s terms and conditions.
• Escalate any correspondence that affects the commercial viability or risk profile of projects to the line manager.
• Ensure we are paid in line with our contract payment profile, making decisions on how to address nonpayments and chasing outstanding payments as per issued contracts.
• Manage the project contract and issue variations for any scope changes/increases.
Experience & Qualifications
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Project Manager within the utilities sector, preferable ICP/DNO/IDNO background.
• NRSWA Qualified.
• SMSTS Qualified.
• CSCS Black card / EUSR POWER.
• Educated to degree level or have equivalent experience.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Strong numeracy and literacy skills