Project Manager (Development / Construction)

The Project Manager will drive the growth of Red Rock Renewables by overseeing the development of onshore and offshore renewable energy projects. This role covers both technical and project management aspects, from feasibility studies through to design, permitting, construction, and commissioning. The Project Manager will provide support in coordinating cross-functional teams, managing timelines, budgets, and risks, and ensuring successful project delivery. Additionally, they will contribute to evaluating investment opportunities and emerging technologies to shape the company's renewable energy portfolio., Managing Development Workstreams

• Planning and managing the execution of various development workstreams, developing overall project schedules and tracking progress.
• Conduct feasibility studies and technical due diligence for new projects, ensuring alignment with regulatory, environmental, and financial considerations.
• Provide detailed technical reports to inform investment decisions, identifying potential project risks and proposing solutions.
• Engaging with consultants and contractors during development, pre-construction and construction phases
Providing Technical Support
• Offer technical support and sound engineering judgment across various project packages and business functions, ensuring alignment with the goals.
• Assist the Senior Project Manager in creating, reviewing, and optimizing technical processes and procedures that drive the company's objectives and ensure high standards of engineering practice.
• Prepare and review regular reports on project progress, technical performance, and key metrics to ensure transparency and alignment with company goals.
• Reviewing technical and factual reports, drafting and review of technical specifications, internal and external project reports and other design documents, considering safety by design and sustainable design strategies (including life cycle analysis), construction methodologies, CAPEX, OPEX, sizing etc
Stakeholder Engagement and Coordination
• Collaborate with internal teams (e.g., commercial, legal, operations) and external stakeholders (contractors, suppliers, regulators) to ensure alignment on project goals, timelines, and specifications.
• Represent the company in client or partner meetings to communicate technical concepts, project progress and project issues.
Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) Management
• Collaborate with the Technical Team to mitigate risks and ensure the roles of Principal Contractor (PC) and Principal Designer (PD) are carried out at various stages of the project lifecycle.
• Ensure that all project activities comply with HSE standards, identifying and mitigating risks to personnel and the environment during the project lifecycle.
• Promote a safety-first culture by conducting safety reviews and encouraging adherence to strict safety protocols.
  
  Essential
• Strong Technical awareness
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Team approach to delivery of objectives
• Innovative mindset with the ability to inspire continuous improvement
• Strong Project management fundamentals. Able to organize, plan and track process of multiple workstreams and activities in parallel
Knowledge and Experience Required Essential
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work successfully within small teams.
• At least 5 years experience working in development / construction of renewables projects
• Familiar with various aspects of the development and planning process (e.g. due diligence, permitting, environmental assessment, grid connection application, feasibility studies, tendering)
• Experience in managing quality of consultants or contractors
Desirable
• Member of recognised professional institution
• Good understanding of various aspects of renewables construction (contracting structures, key interfaces, technical awareness, quality, HSE)
• Experience of preparing technical and functional specifications.
• A strong understanding of risk management systems
• Experience in the creation and delivery of contract related documentation including works scopes, functional specifications and technical schedules
Qualifications Essential
• A relevant degree in Engineering or Project Management
We will also consider applicant who have not achieved a degree but are on a route towards an Engineering Council accredited status through Experiential Learning or a Technical Route. Core Competencies
• Effective Communication
• Trust & Integrity
• Team Orientated
• Decisive
• Strategic Vision
• Adaptable
• Commercial/Business Awareness
  
  Red Rock Renewables is an investor, owner, operator and developer of renewable energy projects. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, our growing team are passionate about generating clean energy and supporting the UK and Europe's net zero ambitions.
Our current portfolio includes five part or fully owned wind farm projects, each at different lifecycle stages. Our operational wind farms - Afton (100% equity), Beatrice (25%) and Överturingen (50%) - have an installed capacity of 320 MW (RRPL proportion), while our development projects - Benbrack onshore wind farm in the South West of Scotland (100%) and Inch Cape offshore wind farm off the East Coast (50%) - will deliver an additional 570 MW. We are committed to long term investment in the Scottish and UK market, onshore and offshore wind sectors in particular, and have strong growth ambitions to expand into the wider European market and other sustainable energy technologies. We are actively pursuing acquisition and development opportunities, including the offshore wind leasing rounds. Our Edinburgh headquarters puts us at the heart of the UK industry, while our team's expertise and experience working on some of the world's largest energy infrastructure projects allows us a unique opportunity to consider a variety of different opportunities and we welcome candidates to join us on this journey. Red Rock Renewables was established in 2016 when SDIC Power, a global power generation company headquartered in Beijing, China acquired Repsol's UK wind portfolio. For more information on Red Rock Renewables and what it's like to work with us, visit https://www.redrockrenewables.com/ .

A competitive salary and annual bonus along with a range of benefits including, family medical care, holiday purchase scheme, 10% non-contributory pension, life assurance, income protection and electric car scheme. The chance to work amongst a friendly, dedicated, sociable team and benefit from social, health and wellbeing initiatives. We are committed to providing ongoing training opportunities for all staff and invest in allowing you to reach your career goals. Through implementation of our hybrid working policy, we are committed to supporting a positive work-life balance for our employees whilst also maintaining valuable face time in the office. We're committed to achieving an equal gender balance and greater representation of all ethnic groups, both in our company and within the renewables industry. Diversity and inclusivity are central to our strength as a team as well as our culture as a business.