Senior Project Manager (Substations / Power Infrastructure Construction)
The opportunity
As a Senior Project Manager (Substations / Power Infrastructure Construction) at Linesight, you will lead highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will build on your vast industry experience which will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. You will be mentored and supported by industry leaders and given the tools to grow. You will also be involved in and contribute to our business strategy as we continue to evolve. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.
In this role you will:
- Be a visible leader onsite, assessing progress and ensuring safe work practices
- Coordinate with the client team, consultant team and the contractor on all snagging activities, including the schedule and partner engagement
- Identify issues proactively and work with the team to resolve effectively.
- Implement and monitor key project processes, partnering with the client to make improvements and revisions
- Lead and attend key meetings to monitor progress, actively collaborate on solving problems and communicate impacts to partners
- Implement project procedures and use reasonable endeavours to ensure that this procedure is always observed.
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Have a minimum 12–15 years’ relevant project delivery experience, with a proven track record managing complex electrical/power infrastructure projects.
- Have significant substation experience strongly preferred, ideally involving HV/EHV substations, grid connections and associated transmission/distribution infrastructure.
- Are experienced managing substation projects through the full project lifecycle, including design, authority/utility interfaces, procurement, construction, testing, energisation and handover.
- Have data Center / mission-critical experience (advantageous); candidates with strong DC electrical infrastructure experience may also be considered where they can demonstrate appropriate HV/substation knowledge.
- Demonstrate GCC / Middle East experience, particularly experience working with local utilities, authorities and approval processes.
- Have experience working with Tier 1 international consultants, EPC contractors, OEMs and specialist electrical contractors on major infrastructure or mission-critical programmes.
- Demonstrate a strong technical understanding of HV electrical infrastructure, including substations, transformers, switchgear, protection/control systems, grid connections and associated interfaces.
- Have a proven ability to manage multidisciplinary interfaces, particularly between utility/grid infrastructure, sitewide electrical systems, Data Center MEP systems and commissioning teams.
- Show strong contractor and consultant management capability, with the ability to drive programme, quality, safety, technical resolution and commercial outcomes.
- Exhibit strong programme and project-controls awareness, including schedule management, risk, change, procurement, reporting and identification of critical-path issues.
- Have excellent client-facing and stakeholder-management skills, with experience working within an international, highly structured project environment.
- Have a strong communication and leadership style, capable of reporting to the Project Director while independently owning the substation/power workstream and escalating key risks and decisions appropriately.
All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.
At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
About Project Management
Our teams of program and project managers deliver success globally through strategic planning and stringent controls. Whether you have extensive experience or are at the early stages of your career in program or project management, we offer the opportunity to work on some of the most innovative buildings and facilities with world-leading clients. Play a central role in these projects as part of our dynamic team. We recognise the value that each team member can bring to the table, and we offer a range of supports, learning pathways and structured career planning cycles to ensure that every individual has the best opportunity to excel and further develop, regardless of the stage of your career you join us at.
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