Senior Project Manager

Vattenfall
City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Full time
3 weeks ago

Company Description

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. 

Job Description

Do you want to work where change is happening and be part of shaping the future? Join Heat UK’s journey towards Fossil Freedom as our new Senior Project Manager

Vattenfall has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join our UK Heat team in Edinburgh to develop and establish the extensions of our growing district heating assets.

Vattenfall UK Heat is responsible for the development and construction of the heat and power generating assets and the district heating grid in the UK region. The work in our international team is characterised by diversity, openness, and a high degree of cooperation. Respect in dealing with each other, our colleagues and business partners is just as important to us as having fun in our daily work.

In the position of Senior Project Manager you will strengthen our Project Management team which is part of the Scotlang regional business office. You will be responsible for development and realisation of multi-million investment projects in line with the outlined objectives, business drivers and the Vattenfall project management model and governance. You will be supported by a strong (local) project team and Vattenfall competence and resource pools, tools, and systems.

 Your tasks and responsibility will be widespread:

Your profile:

Being the right candidate, you are characterised as structured and equipped with a sound judgment. You easily connect to people and your advanced communication skills are usable towards senior management as well as on work floor level. You are passionate about being part of the transformation taking place in the shift to a zero-carbon energy sector and are able to keep focus on what is important for Vattenfall. The job requires an orientation on international cooperation with technical, as well as business-oriented experts.

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Qualifications

To be successful, you should further bring:

The successful candidate will need to have the right to work in the UK

Additional Information

Our offer 
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development. 

More Information 
We welcome your application in English, no later than 10/08/2025. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. 
 
For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Adam Hammond via adam.hammond@vattenfall.com 

Commitment to Diversity

Vattenfall is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement forums and services to support all our employees.

We are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. 
 
We look forward to receiving your application! 

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