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Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: London, UK
Join Us:
Join us and you'll join one of the UK's largest construction, engineering, and infrastructure company. As a Senior Project Manager, you'll work alongside a team delivering exceptional outcomes—for our people, the built environment, and a truly sustainable future.
Overview
We are seeking an experienced HV Substation Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of high‑voltage (HV) infrastructure projects from concept through to commissioning. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical knowledge of HV environments, experience with NEC4 contracts, and a track record of managing subcontractors, programme delivery, cost control, and risk/opportunity management.
What You Will Do
Project Leadership
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of HV substation projects, ensuring compliance with safety, technical, and contractual requirements.
- Plan and manage project programme, milestones, interfaces, and deliverables to meet customer and business objectives.
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
- 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.
Desirable
- Project management qualifications (APM, PRINCE2, PMP).
What we offer:
In return, we offer a wide range of rewards and benefits:
- B enefits: 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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Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Job Type
Full time
Ref
R-150692
Salary range
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Wherever you are in your career – and whoever you are – AtkinsRéalis is for you. Here, support and collaboration are a vibrant part of a culture that lets you choose where – and how far – your career can go. Take on projects that push boundaries and drive sustainable impact, surrounded by colleagues who believe there's no limit to how brilliant you can be. It's time to join a like-minded team where you'll be rewarded, supported, and free to be your kind of brilliant.
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