Overview

Director of Project Delivery – Transmission (UK). We are seeking a Director of Project Delivery – Transmission to lead large-scale new build and upgrade projects across the UK. This is a high-impact leadership role for an experienced project director with deep expertise in transmission project execution, stakeholder engagement, and large capital programme management.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of transmission project delivery in the UK, ensuring achievement of schedule, quality, cost, and safety targets.
• Establish and oversee a comprehensive PMO system, including planning, risk, schedule, quality, contract, and financial control.
• Manage EPC contractors, design consultancies, suppliers, and subcontractors to ensure compliance with Transmission Owner (NGET/SSEN/SPEN) standards and HSE requirements.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with sales, engineering, supply chain, and factories to ensure seamless order-to-delivery processes.
• Monitor progress against milestones using traffic-light reporting, and provide regular updates to the UK CEO and Group HQ.
• Lead client communications, manage variations, claims, and disputes to ensure customer satisfaction and positive cash flow.
• Build and develop a local delivery team, with responsibility for recruitment, training, and succession planning.
• Approve project spend, resource allocation, and safety incident investigations up to delegated authority level.
• Ensure organisational effectiveness in resource utilisation, both internal and contractor-based.

Experience & Qualifications

• Degree qualified in engineering, business, or a related discipline; advanced professional qualifications preferred.
• 15+ years of project management experience in transmission or power engineering.
• 5+ years delivering projects within the UK/European power market.
• Strong expertise in contractual management: NEC3/NEC4, FIDIC, PMI, Prince2 frameworks.
• Financial management of multi-hundred-million-pound projects, with focus on budget returns and early revenue.
• Extensive experience leading geographically diverse teams and engaging senior stakeholders across the supply chain.
• Strong knowledge of UK transmission sector regulations, CDM, and HSE frameworks.
• Skilled in value engineering, risk management, programme delivery, and project refinement to achieve business case requirements.
• A strategic leader who thrives in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Proven ability to manage end-to-end delivery of large capital projects, balancing commercial, technical, and regulatory considerations.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust across Transmission Owners, EPCs, consultants, and regulators.
• Results-oriented, resilient, and driven to deliver in a challenging and evolving energy market.

This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of the UK’s transmission infrastructure — delivering critical new build and upgrade projects that will enable the energy transition. You will lead a high-performing project delivery team, drive operational excellence, and have direct accountability for some of the most significant capital investments in the sector.