Project Manager

Project Manager
Salary from £45,400 per year, plus excellent career progression opportunities and a fantastic benefits package
Location: Kilmarnock
Permanent / Full Time

Closing Date: 16/10/26

Help us create a better future, quicker 

Role

SP Energy Networks is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Project Manager to join our Delivery team. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the successful delivery of major Connections and Investment projects that are critical to supporting the energy transition, network resilience, and customer growth across our licence areas.

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing a portfolio of high-value, complex projects from initiation through to completion, ensuring delivery is achieved safely, on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

This role requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, commercial awareness, and project governance capabilities, working across multidisciplinary teams and engaging with customers, contractors, internal and external stakeholders.

What you’ll be doing

Lead the end-to-end delivery of Connections or  Investment projects ranging from network reinforcement schemes through to large-scale customer connection projects.

Manage project execution plans, schedules, budgets, resources, and risk registers.

Ensure projects are delivered in line with agreed scope, programme milestones, and financial targets.

Drive project performance through effective planning, monitoring, reporting, and control mechanisms.

Manage project change processes and ensure governance requirements are met.

Build strong relationships with customers, local authorities, contractors, consultants, and internal functional teams.

Manage customer expectations while maintaining focus on delivery objectives.

Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and opportunities.

Ensure compliance with SPEN policies, regulatory obligations, CDM regulations, and industry standards.

Promote a strong safety culture and ensure health, safety, environmental, and quality requirements are embedded throughout project delivery.

Lead lessons learned activities and continuous improvement initiatives.

What you’ll bring 

Degree qualification or equivalent experience in Engineering, Construction,

Project Management, or related discipline.

Project Management qualification such as APM PMQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or equivalent.

Full UK Driving Licence.

Project / programme management experience, with a strong performance ethos and a track record of driving and delivering projects and initiatives.

Knowledge of the regulatory environment including relevant output and incentive mechanisms.

General contract, commercial and regulatory awareness with the ability to balance effective and efficient customer service and project delivery, ensuring maximum return on investment.

Effective stakeholder and customer service engagement and management.

Ability to communicate and present information effectively at all levels.

Minimum Criteria

• Awareness and understanding of key business drivers and the external commercial context in which SPEN is operating.

• Experience in a project delivery role.
• Computer literacy.

• Microsoft suite.

• Experience in a programme management environment of multiple projects and disciplines.

• Understanding of health, safety, and environmental legislation.

• Strong skills in planning, financial control, contractor  and stakeholder management.
  
  

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%. 

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously.

We’re investing £10 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy.

With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

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