Project Manager

Description

Location: Scotland | Contract Type: Permanent | Working Pattern: Full-Time | Office & Site Based | Regular Travel

Pay / Benefits: Remuneration for this role is benchmarked competitively within our sector.

The Opportunity

OCU is delivering critical transmission and distribution infrastructure projects that support the UK's evolving energy network. As a Project Manager, you'll take ownership of regulated power projects from inception through to completion, ensuring safe, efficient, and commercially successful delivery across complex electricity network programmes.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead high-profile projects within a growing power division, working alongside multidisciplinary teams to deliver infrastructure that plays a vital role in the UK's energy transition. If you're an experienced project professional who thrives on managing complex challenges and driving successful outcomes, we'd like to hear from you.

What You'll Do

• Lead the successful delivery of regulated power projects across transmission and distribution networks.
• Develop and manage project programmes, budgets, forecasts, and resource plans.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams including design, engineering, commercial, and operational functions.
• Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with health, safety, environmental, and quality requirements.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, stakeholders, and regulatory bodies.
• Monitor project performance, managing risks, issues, and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Oversee procurement activities, subcontractor performance, and contract administration processes.
• Manage project reporting, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Support commissioning, energisation, handover, and project close-out activities.
• Drive continuous improvement and best practice across project delivery teams.

What You'll Bring

• Degree qualified, or equivalent experience, in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline.

• Proven project management experience within power, utilities, energy, infrastructure, or construction environments.

• Strong understanding of regulated electricity networks, including transmission and distribution systems.

• Experience delivering projects involving substations, HV, or EHV infrastructure.

• Knowledge of CDM Regulations and UK health and safety legislation.

• Experience administering NEC contracts or similar contract arrangements.

• Strong commercial, financial, and project management capabilities.

• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

• Full UK driving licence.

• Professional qualification such as PRINCE2, APM, PMP, or equivalent.

• Bonus if you have experience delivering projects on National Grid or DNO frameworks.

• It would be great if you have a background in electrical engineering or infrastructure construction delivery.

• It would be great if you've managed major infrastructure projects involving multiple stakeholders and complex interfaces.

• Experience leading commissioning and energisation activities would be advantageous.

What We Offer

At OCU, we believe that meaningful work should come with meaningful support. That's the principle behind Careers with Purpose, our commitment to ensuring every person at OCU feels supported, developed, and valued, not just in their role today, but throughout their career with us.

Alongside the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects, we offer a benefits package that we are continuing to develop as we grow, and the kind of career acceleration that only comes from being inside a business moving at this pace.

As a rapidly growing organisation, there are genuine opportunities to progress, broaden your experience, and build a long-term career within OCU Group.

For a confidential conversation about this opportunity, please contact Jonathan Bryden at [email protected].

Our vacancies are typically advertised for two weeks; however, we reserve the right to close applications early should we receive a sufficient number of suitable candidates. We therefore encourage early applications.

About OCU Group

At OCU Group, we don’t just deliver infrastructure - we help power modern life.

As one of the UK’s fastest-growing utility and infrastructure businesses, we deliver complex, nationally critical projects across power, energy transition, water, telecoms, and digital infrastructure. Over the last five years, OCU has grown five-fold to a £1.1bn organisation, expanding both organically and through strategic acquisitions across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.

Our growth is driven by ambitious people, operational excellence, and a commitment to doing things properly. We work on projects that genuinely matter by supporting the UK’s energy transition, strengthening essential infrastructure, and helping build more sustainable communities for the future.

Whether you’re an experienced professional looking to take ownership of major projects and influence delivery at scale, or someone starting your career through an apprenticeship, graduate programme, or placement route, OCU offers real opportunity to grow, develop, and make an impact.

We are building a business where high performance, collaboration, innovation, and accountability sit at the centre of our culture. Our people are trusted to lead, encouraged to challenge thinking, and supported to continuously develop their skills and careers.

At OCU, you won’t just join a growing business, you’ll help shape it.

Our Culture & Values

At OCU, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We care about safety, lead with integrity, strive to be better every day, make a positive impact, and deliver to grow, together, as One Company United.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

At OCU Group, we believe diversity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to building stronger teams, better ideas, and a more successful business. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported.

As part of our commitment to fairness and equality, candidates may be asked to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form during the recruitment process. This information is used for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in hiring decisions.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to offering interviews to candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions who meet the essential criteria for the role.

To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing [email protected].