Senior Project Manager - Energy/Power

Fichtner Consulting Engineers Ltd is a leading technical consultancy with a reputation built on over 35 years of successful projects in the UK and Ireland. Our purpose is to facilitate the investment and delivery of energy infrastructure projects that positively influence the energy transition. Our success comes from the unique combination of skills and experience that continuously evolves. Our Engineers and Consultants support some of the most innovative energy projects across the UK and Ireland; providing design, intellectual, and engineering services to developers, investors, and owner-operators.

We have over 180 employees that we are proud to have represent us, operating from our offices in Manchester, Belfast, Dublin, and Glasgow. As the business grows from strength to strength, we are now looking to further extend our team by recruiting a professional project manager who has a electrical engineering background, to be based out of our Stockport office.

We are looking for:

An academically qualified project manager with the following skills and experience.

• a good degree in electrical engineering. Ideally a Chartered Engineer, MIET or similar.
• able to work in our Stockport office up to 3 days a week.
• ideally holding a recognised project management qualification like APM or Prince2.
• excellent project delivery knowledge for industrial or power generation projects to include any combination of solar PV, BESS, wind, energy from waste, or carbon capture.
• good general knowledge of industrial electrical infrastructure with experience in LV to HV, embedded generation, switchgear, and substations.
• substantial construction experience for different types of power assets.
• familiar with client and contractor meetings, able to write and deliver high quality technical reports, minutes, etc.
• excellent understanding of health, safety and welfare within the energy generation sector.
• witnessing of both site and factory acceptance testing (UK/EU)
• ability to assess manufactured or fabricated items for faults.
• able to work as part of a wider engineering team and also to operate autonomously as required.

Candidates must be willing to travel in the UK and Ireland, and occasionally overseas. Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.

What we offer

• a competitive salary with leading bonus scheme of up to 20% of salary
• further vocational qualification support
• electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• private medical & life assurance
• cycle to work scheme
• UK&I Company share purchase option
• team and company social events
• milestone scheme celebrating years spent as part of the Fichtner team.