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Project Manager – Distribution Business (SPD)

Location: Bonnybridge or Glenrothes office (office based with occasional site visits)

£44,000 - £55,000 + strong benefits package and excellent career progression opportunities/support.

Permanent / Full-time

Closing date: 4th December 2025

Help us create a better future, quicker!

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a global leader in wind energy. We’re committed to accelerating the transition to a cleaner, electric future and we’re looking for people who share our passion to make this happen.

We’re hiring a Project Manager to join our SP Energy Networks Distribution Business (SPD) team, supporting the Central and Fife District. You’ll manage and deliver technical projects for the distribution network, ensuring they meet specification, programme, and financial targets. Projects typically range from £500k to £1m, and while the role is primarily office based, occasional site visits throughout the district will be required.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Deliver projects to specification, programme, and within authorised financial values.
  • Ensure compliance with CDM Regulations, Health, Safety & Environmental standards, and Energy Networks Quality Management System.
  • Prepare tender documentation, assess contractor submissions, and manage procurement processes.
  • Develop and maintain complex project plans, risk registers, and accurate CAPEX/OPEX forecasts.
  • Act as the primary point of contact for clients, contractors, and stakeholders.
  • Build strong relationships internally and externally to ensure successful project delivery.


What You’ll Bring

  • Proven experience in project management or project coordination/delivery within utilities, civil engineering, or construction sectors.
  • Strong skills in planning, financial control, and stakeholder management.
  • Excellent communication and negotiation abilities.
  • Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
  • Experience with project planning software, i.e Microsoft project
  • Professional certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, APM) desirable.


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 careers@scottishpower.com.

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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.

IMPORTANT

Advert will close at 23:59 GMT the day before Job Posting End Date below

December-4-2025