Senior Project Manager - Smart Buildings
Posted 1 day ago by SSE Energy Solutions – Smart Buildings
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Fareham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: In this senior role as a Senior Project Manager for Smart Buildings, you will lead major projects focused on delivering intelligent, low carbon building solutions across West London and the Southeast. You will oversee project delivery, manage a team of professionals, and act as the primary contact for customers, ensuring projects meet their objectives. This position combines technical expertise with leadership and customer engagement to drive efficiency and sustainability. The role offers a flexible working pattern and a range of benefits to support your wellbeing and family.
Key Responsibilities:
- Overseeing a portfolio of Smart Buildings projects, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery.
- Leading, developing, and mentoring a team of Project Managers, Project Engineers, and Commissioning Engineers.
- Acting as the key point of contact for customers, managing expectations and ensuring professional presence on site.
- Managing commercial performance, including forecasting, budgeting, risk management, and financial reporting.
- Driving continuous improvement and maintaining quality standards across projects.
Key Skills:
- Strong project delivery experience in Smart Buildings, controls, BEMS, or a related technical environment.
- Proven leadership experience with the ability to guide teams and develop talent.
- Excellent stakeholder and customer management skills.
- Commercial awareness with experience in budgeting, forecasting, and contract management.
- Ability to travel across the South East and be regularly on site.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Fareham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Base Location: Field Based covering London and Southeast England
Salary: Attractive salary + car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family
Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available
Ready to lead major Smart Buildings projects that make a real impact for customers and communities? In this senior role, you’ll be at the forefront of delivering intelligent, low carbon building solutions across West London. You’ll shape how sites operate, perform and evolve - taking ownership of high profile programmes and becoming SSE’s on-the-ground presence. It’s a chance to combine technical delivery with real influence, driving projects that improve efficiency, sustainability and customer experience.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Overseeing a portfolio of Smart Buildings projects, ensuring they’re delivered on time, within budget, and in line with customer and contractual requirements.
- Leading, developing, and mentoring a team of Project Managers, Project Engineers and Commissioning Engineers to create a high performance, safety first culture.
- Acting as the key point of contact for customers, providing clear communication, managing expectations, and ensuring a professional presence on customer sites.
- Managing commercial performance across the portfolio - forecasting, budgeting, risk management, and financial reporting.
- Driving continuous improvement, ensuring quality standards are maintained, documentation is completed to a high standard, and project processes are consistently followed.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong project delivery experience in Smart Buildings, controls, BEMS, or a related technical environment, with the ability to manage multiple live projects.
- Proven leadership experience with an ability to guide teams, develop talent, and maintain high standards of performance and safety.
- Excellent stakeholder and customer management skills, with confidence representing SSE on site and solving challenges collaboratively.
- Commercial awareness with experience in budgeting, forecasting, contract management, and risk mitigation.
- Someone based in West London and able to travel across the South East, with the flexibility to be regularly on site as the main SSE project presence in support of our delivery teams
About SSE Smart Buildings
We are one of the largest BEMS suppliers in the UK – a top 3 Honeywell Trend Technology Partner, and the first Siemens Master Partner. We love being a market leader and topping out some outstanding projects to the very highest of standards - on time and within budget! Working alongside our colleagues in SSE we provide some of the most critical building control and energy generation services required by a zero-carbon world, enabling our customers to achieve their sustainability targets.
Flexible Benefits To Fit Your Life
- Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships.
- Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service.
- Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme.
- As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.
Work with an equal opportunity employer
SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact Andy on andrew.elder3@sse.com / 01738 340826 to discuss how we can support you. We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.
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