Location: Borehamwood, United Kingdom
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full-Time
Renumeration Indicator: Competitive salary plus company vehicle, pension and private healthcare. Remuneration for this role is benchmarked competitively within the Infrastructure and energy sector, and sits within our D2 band, reflecting the seniority and scope of the position.
The Opportunity
As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing and large-scale projects from initiation to completion, ensuring successful delivery within scope, budget, and schedule. You will play a key role in managing project teams, coordinating activities, and mitigating risks to achieve project objectives and exceed client expectations.
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Lead the planning and delivery of high-voltage substation projects, ensuring they are completed safely, on time, within budget, and to specification.
- Develop and manage project schedules, budgets, resources, and risk management plans.
- Act as the main point of contact for clients, contractors, and internal stakeholders, ensuring clear communication throughout project delivery.
- Lead and support multidisciplinary project teams, promoting collaboration and high performance.
- Manage project resources effectively to optimise productivity and delivery outcomes.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, implementing corrective actions where required.
- Ensure compliance with quality, safety, regulatory, and client requirements.
- Monitor project financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and reporting.
- Oversee project progress from design and procurement through construction, testing, and commissioning.
- Deliver regular project updates, reports, and reviews to stakeholders and senior management.
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A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Electrical, Civil, Mechanical) or Project Management, or a closely related discipline.
- Demonstrable experience delivering high-voltage cabling projects, ideally 132kV and above, from design through to commissioning.
- Strong technical knowledge of cabling infrastructure.
- Proven experience managing complex engineering projects and programmes.
- Excellent leadership, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills.
- The ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining safety, quality, and schedule performance.
- Proficiency with project management and engineering tools such as Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, AutoCAD, and document control systems.
- Strong understanding of UK utility and transmission standards, including National Grid specifications, DNO/TSO requirements, CDM Regulations, and IEC standards.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities, particularly in complex project environments.
- Strong organisational and analytical skills, including the ability to interpret technical drawings, schedules, cost reports, and risk registers.
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].
