Project Manager Transmission

OMEXOM is a brand through which VINCI Energies undertakes its Transmission & Distribution activities. OMEXOM specialise in the design, supply, installation, maintenance and commissioning of electrical infrastructures for a varied range of electricity utility companies and renewable energy developers throughout the UK and Ireland. Due to continued growth, we now require a suitably qualified Project Manager with outstanding leadership, communication and project management skills to work on projects for one of our main clients in Scotland.

The successful candidate will have a track record of project delivery with a focus on Transmission Overhead Lines along with demonstrable experience in developing diverse teams.

The Role

Reporting directly to the Operations Manager/Project Director within the OMEXOM Transmission business unit, this role is a key part of our organisational success, ensuring commitments to our customers are delivered on time and to the highest standard.

A Project Manager is required by Omexom UK Transmission Overhead line Business Unit. Reporting directly to the Operations Manager/Project Director, the requirement is to lead high-value multi-discipline transmission projects in Scotland, with a responsibility to support the development of further business within that framework.

The successful candidate will have extensive experience in the successful delivery of multi-million programmes of work, and technically & commercially complex portfolios/projects within the high voltage transmission sector.

Skills Profile

The post is specifically focused on:

• Ownership of deliverables relating to time, cost, and quality, ensuring safe delivery of the project.
• Lead, develop and support the team in constructing new innovative technology and the associated connection build
• Use excellent communication skills to run and engage with internal and external partners in a timely manner.
• Professionally represent OMEXOM, both individually and as part of a team, in a wide range of situations with internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead the projects to the requirements set out within our governance framework for project delivery.
• Provide and manage objectives to project team members (Procurement, Engineering, Construction, etc) to ensure all deliverables are monitored and achieved in accordance with the programme.
• Project cost control at all times, ensuring pre-determined levels of productivity are achieved.
• Maintain effective communication both internally, within the business to ensure optimum project delivery and externally, with all customers, developing a relationship of trust on which future business can be secured.
• Challenge internally and externally (incl subcontractors), to provide the best possible value proposals that meet the Customer requirements.
• Operate clear requirements management, claims, non-conformance cost and lessons learned processes on all projects within remit.
• Build, develop and maintain, clear, robust and up to date project plans.
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral.
• Educated to degree level (preferably in an engineering, business or project management discipline)
• Experience of:
•  Meeting targets in a commercial environment.
•  Managing budgets.
•  Planning works in the most efficient manner.
•  Managing and motivating staff.
•  Delivering strong financial performance in a contracting environment.
•  A proven understanding of safety and quality and how to manage them.
•  The ability to engage at a specific and detailed level with key tasks, evidenced by those tasks being executed in a highly efficient manner.
• APM, PRINCE2 or PMI qualifications are desirable.

The successful jobholder will also possess the personal integrity, resilience and the robustness needed to operate in a fast-changing highly commercial contracting environment.

General

This is a flexible role with the requirement to travel throughout the UK.

About us

VINCI Energies is a community of incredible people, empowered to create world-changing industrial, digital and energy infrastructures. Our vision to create a better future sits at the heart of everything we do. At OMEXOM you are free to be who you are and what you want to be. You can be part of a community that fosters entrepreneurial spirit and supports you in your personal development.

We offer a flexible working environment with strong benefits such as 25 days holidays, matched pension contributions, a generous company share scheme, healthcare cover and free parking.

We’re a team of enthusiastic entrepreneurs continuously seeking to deliver the promises of the digital and energy revolutions. Our culture is reflected in our values which we embody by empowering and bringing together amazing people: