Project Coordinator (m/w/d)

Job Description

At SP Energy Networks, we're shaping the future to meet the growing demand for electricity and low-carbon technology. Our mission is to deliver safe, secure, and sustainable energy solutions for the communities we serve. People are at the heart of this transformation, and we're looking for talented individuals to join us.

We are recruiting a Project Coordinator to join our Distribution business within SP Energy Networks. Working as part of the Design Support team, you will play a key role in the design and planning of the district distribution network, ensuring system stewardship, network security, and integrity at all times. You will undertake system analysis to determine generation connection feasibility, identify network alterations and reinforcement requirements, and develop solutions in line with Asset Management policies and customer requirements.

What you'll be doing

• Responsible for the regulatory aspects of managing generation connection requests and providing ok to connect confirmations or quotations, ensuring processes and reporting arrangements meet regulatory and licence requirements.
• Integrate asset stewardship values through sound engineering principles, coordinated planning, design, and ownership to improve integrity, safety, and longevity of the electrical network while delivering minimum scheme costs for customer connections.
• Drive continual performance improvement through analysis of outputs and feedback from internal and external sources.
• Consider innovative solutions in all designs-whether technological, procedural, or commercial.
• Produce designs in accordance with unit or authorised prime costs to enable efficient delivery of outputs, where necessary.
• Develop and maintain robust stakeholder and customer relationships to facilitate delivery of strategic objectives.
• Promote an exemplary safety culture, ensuring all safety legislation is implemented and incorporated into project designs.
• Analyse customer documentation to ensure accurate and complete information for generation connections.
• Provide sound advice to customers regarding generation connection onto the electrical network.

What you will bring

You will have worked in a Programme/Project Coordinator role or similar and have demonstrable experience of effectively delivering projects and/or initiatives.

• Knowledge of the regulatory environment, including relevant output and incentive mechanisms.
• Commercial awareness with the ability to balance customer service and efficient network design, ensuring maximum return on investment.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and customer service skills.
• Ability to communicate and present information effectively at all levels.
• Ability to manage competing priorities using sound engineering and financial judgment to determine optimal solutions.
• Awareness of key business drivers and the external commercial context in which ScottishPower operates.
• Ability to devise solutions to complex problems and challenges.
• Awareness of generation connections onto an electrical network and associated controls.

Minimum Criteria

• Experience in a project delivery role, network design role, or similar.
• Computer literacy.
• Customer service experience.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow.

That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
• Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to 'nudge' financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network - connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It's a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland's ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we're taking it very seriously.

We're investing over £5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.