Overview As Development Project Manager, you lead the development of battery storage projects from post-concept through financial close. You work with cross-functional teams, contractors and external advisors to safeguard timelines, budgets and risk management. You drive the stage-gate process and ensure handovers to delivery teams at financial close. You help shape projects that enable renewable integration and grid resilience, contributing to a zero-carbon energy transition.
Responsibilities - Oversee project development from concept to financial close, ensuring cost, schedule and risk targets are met
- Lead stage-gate processes and handovers to delivery teams at financial close
- Identify and manage project risks to maintain commercial viability
- Coordinate across land, planning, grid and engineering teams to align solutions with project requirements
- Manage a matrix project team, tracking progress and fostering collaboration
- Engage with procurement, finance, PMO and external consultants throughout the lifecycle
- Support tender processes, including ITT preparation and contract negotiations
- Maintain project management documentation (budgets, programmes, risk registers)
- Conduct site visits and stakeholder engagement with landowners and communities
- Develop inputs for the techno-economic model and support CAPEX budgeting
- Lead due diligence for project financing and ensure high-quality documentation
- Prepare and present project updates to management and board committees
- Identify opportunities for process improvement in development and PMO practices
- Promote health and safety, wellbeing, and sustainability in daily responsibilities
Key requirements - Experience delivering large-scale, multi-million-pound infrastructure projects
- Strong background in engineering, project delivery, procurement or commercial disciplines
- Excellent analytical and structured working approach
- Ability to balance programme, cost, risk, technical and commercial considerations
- Experience guiding projects through construction and commissioning phases
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Proficient in project controls, scheduling, cost control and risk management
- Pragmatic, proactive and solutions-oriented
- Strong commercial awareness and experience with contracts, procurement and project finance
- Excellent written and verbal communication across functions
- Strong team collaboration and management across multidisciplinary teams
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel) and MS Project; familiarity with Primavera P6
- Knowledge of renewable energy project development
- Minimum 5 years of energy sector experience, preferably in energy storage or renewables
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
- Ability to work in fast-moving, entrepreneurial environments
- Full UK driving licence
- collaborative
- flexible
- empathetic
- renewable energy project development
- grid and planning knowledge
- earned value / cost control
