Development Director

Location: Aspect House, Blantyre

Salary circa £100,000 per year (DOE), plus an excellent benefits package including: 40% (performance related) bonus per annum, private healthcare (family) and £550 p/m car allowance.

Full Time / Permanent

Flexible Working Pattern

Closing Date: 07/09/25

Help us create a better future, quicker

Role

A key member of the SPT Strategic Portfolio Leadership team, sharing accountability with peers for development and delivery UK’s critical transmission reinforcement projects. The portfolio is high value with complex and critical projects urgently required to deliver the UK’s Net Zero target with a total value of c.£3.75Bn+.

Drive the development of all our large super grid transmission projects ensuring key milestones for land, planning and consenting activities are achieved to meet delivery timescales. The role will cover all large development projects in the Strategic Portfolio aligned with East & West delivery pipelines ranging from 275kV to 400kV. These include new overlines, new substations, upgrading existing overlines and substations to enable greater capacity of renewable energy to flow to UK’s demand centres.

What you’ll be doing

Define the appropriate allocation for the leadership and management of individual projects / programmes through consideration of level of investment, resource utilisation, geographical location &...