Assistant Project Manager

Our client Scottish Power Renewables are seeking an Assistant Project Manager for a long-term contract role working based in Glasgow on a hybrid basis.

This is an excellent opportunity to build a career path in renewables with a respected industry leading Developer giving you the opportunity to work with and learn from a team of experienced technical experts. The key role of an Assistant Project Manager is supporting the development and delivery of renewable energy projects (onshore) and taking a lead responsibility for many aspects of these projects. Providing technical, general and ad hoc support to the Project Manager.

What you’ll be doing

You will take on and manage tasks that have been allocated by the Project Manager to help develop SPR’s pipeline of utility-scale wind, solar, and energy storage sites. This will include the project management of feasibility assessments, design stages, securing grid and land agreements, stakeholder consultation, and the commercial development of project business cases. You will also provide input to the environmental impact assessment process, including preparation of environmental statements and planning applications for our projects.

We will look for you to liaise and coordinate with external suppliers and contractors to ensure delivery specifications are met providing inputs on tender assessments and liaise with stakeholders to ensure development activities are progressed in a timely manner.

You will also provide your input to all commercial agreements and contracts to ensure risks are mitigated and assist the Project Manager in the preparation and presentation of investment cases.

What you’ll bring

To join you will have previous experience in a development role or in the Renewables or Power Generation industry with the ability to translate technical detail into commercial impact.

You will have experience in commercial negotiations and be able to analyse development issues providing creative solutions to the team when required, and utilise your ability to identify and source external resources and skills to help deliver our Renewables projects on time and on budget.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• Professional Qualification
• Up to 3 years relevant experience within selected discipline
• Experience in commercial negotiations.
• Experience of Renewables/Power Generation industry
• Ability to translate technical detail into commercial impact
• Analyse development issues providing creative solutions when required
• Tenacity, persistence, and determination to succeed
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent report writing and presentation skills
• Excellent personal organisation and time management skills
• Ability to identify and source external resources and skills to appropriate project delivery requirements
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines

MINIMUM CRITERIA

• Project Management capability
• Planning/Environmental Qualification or Engineering discipline
• Understanding of windfarm design principles
• Environmental Impact Assessment/ Strategic Environmental Assessment knowledge and awareness
• Knowledge of the local and national planning process
• Developed negotiation and influencing skills
• The ability to help to develop high quality environmental impact assessments
• The ability to help to develop and deliver high quality planning applications /consents
• An understanding of the impacts of construction on the environment