Development Project Manager

Base Location: For this role, we require successful applicants to be based from one of our Scottish locations and you'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in the office - Perth, Inverness or Aberdeen.Salary: 51,600 - 77,400 + car/car allowance + performance related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options availableThe roleOur Development Project Managers play a central role in shaping SSEN Transmission's largest and most complex infrastructure projects. From new substations to major overhead line and cable developments, you will oversee projects ranging in value from 10 million to 1 billion, guiding them through the crucial early stages where scope, feasibility and design are defined.This is a key position that brings together technical, commercial and stakeholder elements, ensuring that each project is structured for successful delivery and aligned with our long
term network willIdentify and form an appropriate team to execute each project which you will lead and manage to deliver key deliverables up to the construction phase. These will include assessing project feasibility, development of options and initial designs, submission of Planning Applications and delivery of key your team in assessing project feasibility, development of overhead line/underground cable routes and onshore substation site selection, selection of appropriate technologies to meet project requirements, coordination of key surveys and studies to inform designs, coordinating initial design works, acquisition of land rights and wayleaves, submission of Planning Applications, coordinating key submissions to the Regulator and delivery of key project Gate project programmes, costs, resource schedules and relevant plans in line with project governance requirements.Build and maintain productive and enduring relationships with contractors, stakeholders and communities to support the
sustainable delivery of the projects that you are responsible for.Maintain safety, health and environmental performance and standards.You haveExperience of project development through the optioneering and initial design phases, with an ability to develop the optimum project solution, deliver to timescales and manage multiple projects simultaneously.An ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams to deliver multiple project outputs to inform key processes such as planning applications, tenders and design works.Experience of developing, managing and reporting on significant project budgets (10M and above) and an understanding of the electrical network within the Transmission business would be beneficial.Knowledge of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and other key relevant health, safety and environmental of the NEC3 suite of contracts, with a focus on the Engineering and Construction and Professional Services contracts.About
SSESSE's purpose is to be restless every day until we make electricity clean, affordable and available for all.We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. This includes electricity transmission and distribution networks, onshore and offshore wind farms, hydro-electric power and flexible thermal generation. We also provide products and services for businesses and other customers.Our investment plan will see SSE invest 33bn in critical electricity infrastructure to 2030.SSEN Transmission own and operate the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland. We transport electricity from where it is generated to where it is needed, ensuring a safe and reliable electricity supply for the communities we serve. But that's not all - we're upgrading the grid to deliver cleaner, homegrown power for the future and building the infrastructure needed for a cleaner