Senior Project Manager – Electrical

About Dalkia UK

Role summary

Project leadership and delivery

• Lead complex MEP projects and integrated work packages in a nuclear environment.
• Develop and maintain Project Execution Plans, delivery strategies, governance arrangements, and project controls.
• Deliver safely, on programme, within budget, and to required quality and nuclear assurance standards.
• Manage project lifecycle activities from concept, design, and procurement through construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Lead performance reviews, corrective actions, risk-based decisions, and stakeholder engagement.
• Manage project interfaces, sequencing, and integration of MEP systems.
• Deliver in line with Dalkia Way and Dalkia engineering governance requirements.

Team leadership and resources

• Lead and develop Project Managers, Assistant Project Managers, and wider project delivery teams.
• Build a collaborative, high-performing, accountable culture aligned with nuclear safety principles.
• Support mentoring, coaching, professional development, workforce planning, resource forecasting, and deployment of suitably qualified personnel.
• Promote knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, lessons learned, succession planning, and capability development.

Stakeholder and client management

• Represent MEP project delivery as a senior client-facing contact.
• Build relationships with clients, regulators, consultants, contractors, suppliers, and key stakeholders.
• Lead governance meetings, delivery reviews, and strategic planning discussions.
• Communicate project status, risks, opportunities, and critical decisions; manage expectations and alignment with programme milestones.

Engineering and commissioning integration

• Lead delivery of mechanical systems, electrical systems, HVAC, pipework, public health systems, and associated infrastructure.
• Coordinate engineering, design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and operations teams.
• Manage design maturity and ensure engineering outputs support safe and effective construction.
• Resolve complex technical, programme, and logistical challenges across project interfaces.
• Embed constructability, operability, maintainability, and commissioning requirements throughout delivery.
• Support commissioning, system turnover, and handover for a safe transition to operations.

Commercial and risk management

• Manage project budgets, forecasts, cost performance, and financial reporting.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks and opportunities through effective governance; the provided description ends mid-sentence in this section.

Role requirements

• The role calls for senior leadership of complex MEP work packages in a nuclear infrastructure programme.
• Leadership scope spans engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, handover, client and stakeholder interfaces, project governance, and commercial oversight.
• The role requires safe delivery and compliance with nuclear safety, quality, and assurance requirements.