Project Director

About the Opportunity

Project Director – Major Data Centre New Connection
People in Power | Yorkshire
c.£120m Major New Connection Project

About People in Power

People in Power is a specialist recruitment consultancy operating across the Transmission & Distribution and wider power infrastructure market throughout the UK and Europe. We work directly with Directors and senior leadership teams across leading EPCs and ICPs, providing consultative and strategic recruitment support for some of the UK's most significant power infrastructure and new connection programmes. We are currently supporting the appointment of a Project Director to take overall leadership of a major new connection project in Yorkshire.

The Project

This is a significant c.£120m power infrastructure programme delivering a new grid connection and associated high-voltage infrastructure for a major data centre development. The Project Director will have overall responsibility for the successful execution of the scheme, providing leadership from mobilisation through construction, commissioning and final handover. This is a major leadership appointment requiring someone accustomed to taking end-to-end accountability for large, technically complex infrastructure projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Take overall leadership and accountability for the c.£120m project
• Lead the project management and wider multidisciplinary delivery team, Design interface PMs, Electrical and Civil site based engineers and delivery teams
• Own project performance across safety, programme, commercial, quality and technical delivery
• Establish and maintain robust project governance, controls and reporting
• Provide senior leadership across engineering, design, procurement, construction and commissioning
• Maintain executive-level relationships with the end client and key project stakeholders
• Coordinate interfaces with the DNO, contractors, designers and supply chain
• Take ownership of major project risks and ensure appropriate mitigation and intervention
• Work closely with the commercial team to protect contractual position, margin and cash performance
• Ensure resources and leadership capability are aligned with each stage of project delivery
• Drive programme certainty from mobilisation through energisation and handover
• Provide clear reporting and strategic insight to senior operational leadership

About You

We are looking for an established Project Director or senior project leader with a demonstrable track record delivering major power or infrastructure programmes. You will ideally have:

• Experience leading projects of significant scale and complexity, ideally £100m+
• Extensive experience within Transmission & Distribution, substations, new connections or major electrical infrastructure
• Strong HV/EHV knowledge, ideally including 132kV, 275kV and/or 400kV
• Experience taking major projects from pre-construction/mobilisation through construction, commissioning and handover
• Proven leadership of large multidisciplinary project teams
• Strong commercial and contractual capability
• Experience managing senior client, DNO and stakeholder relationships
• Excellent programme, risk and project governance experience
• The authority and leadership capability required to take complete ownership of a strategically important project

The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to take the lead on a c.£120m flagship power infrastructure project supporting one of the UK's major data centre developments. We are looking for someone capable of creating the structure, leadership and accountability required to take a project of this scale successfully through to energisation and handover.

Great package and progression available