You’ll join OCU’s Regulated Power division delivering critical infrastructure across the UK’s regulated electricity networks. Working on transmission and distribution projects, you’ll play a central role in ensuring power infrastructure is delivered safely, efficiently and ready to support the growing demands of the energy transition.
This is an opportunity to take ownership of complex, high-value projects, working with multidisciplinary teams and key stakeholders while building your career within a fast-growing organisation delivering nationally significant work.
You’ll lead the delivery of regulated power projects from initial planning through to completion, taking responsibility for programme, budget and overall performance. Working closely with internal teams and external stakeholders, you’ll ensure projects are delivered to agreed time, cost and quality expectations.
You’ll manage and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams across design, engineering and site operations, ensuring effective collaboration and alignment throughout each stage of delivery. As the primary point of contact for clients and stakeholders, you’ll maintain strong working relationships while ensuring compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements.
You’ll monitor project performance, manage risks and resolve issues as they arise, ensuring minimal disruption to delivery. This will include oversight of procurement, subcontractor management and contract administration within NEC or equivalent frameworks.
A key part of your role will be maintaining high standards of health, safety, environmental and quality compliance, while also driving continuous improvement across project delivery. You’ll oversee commissioning, handover and close-out activities, ensuring all documentation and requirements are fully completed.
Essential:
- Degree or equivalent in Engineering, Construction Management or a related discipline
- Proven experience managing projects within the power, utilities or infrastructure sector
- Strong understanding of UK regulated electricity networks, including DNO, IDNO or transmission environments
- Experience delivering projects involving HV or EHV systems or substations
- Good knowledge of CDM Regulations and UK health and safety legislation
- Experience working with NEC contracts or similar frameworks
- Strong leadership, communication and organisational skills
- Full UK driving licence
Desirable:
- Professional certification such as PRINCE2, APM or PMP
- Experience working on National Grid or major DNO frameworks
- Background in electrical engineering or construction delivery
- Experience managing stakeholders on large-scale infrastructure projects
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
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