OCU are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Project Manager to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly organised and strategic professional who thrives on leading complex Substation projects, building strong stakeholder relationships, and delivering exceptional outcomes.
As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing large-scale Substation projects in London from initiation through to successful completion, ensuring delivery within scope, budget, and schedule. You will play a pivotal role in driving project success, leading multidisciplinary teams, managing risks, and ensuring client expectations are consistently exceeded.
You will lead complex Substation Projects, drive excellence and deliver results.
- Develop and manage project plans, budgets, schedules, and resources.
- Lead project delivery, ensuring milestones and objectives are achieved.
- Build strong relationships with clients, stakeholders, and project teams.
- Identify and mitigate risks, resolving issues proactively.
- Manage project financial performance, reporting, and forecasting.
- Ensure quality standards and compliance requirements are met.
- Provide leadership, mentoring, and support to project teams.
To succeed in this role, you will be a confident and commercially aware project leader with a proven track record of delivering complex projects successfully.
- A degree in Engineering, Project Management, or a related technical discipline.
- Proven experience delivering high-voltage cable route projects (33kV–132kV+), from planning and design through to installation and commissioning.
- Strong understanding of HV cable systems, civil construction methods, and associated infrastructure.
- Demonstrable project management experience, including programme management, risk mitigation, budget control, and stakeholder engagement.
- Excellent communication skills, with experience working alongside clients, local authorities, landowners, utilities, and contractors.
- The ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and performance.
- Proficiency in project planning software such as MS Project or Primavera P6.
- A good understanding of industry standards, regulations, and compliance requirements within the utilities or power sector.
- Strong problem-solving, organisational, and decision-making skills.
Professional qualifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, or APM PMQ are desirable but not essential.
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.
To apply, please submit your CV by the 30/6/2026
For a confidential conversation about this opportunity, please contact Hayley Hufton
at
[email protected]
We review applications every day and may close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. We 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.
If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please contact the recruiter for the role or emailing us at
[email protected]
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].
