Senior Project Manager Renewables & Energy
Position: Senior Project Manager Renewables & EnergyLocation: NewrySalary: Negotiable dependent on experienceContract Type: Permanent / Full-time
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager Renewables & Energy to take a leading role within our growing renewable energy and energy-efficiency division.
This is a senior operational and commercial position with responsibility for managing the complete customer and project journey, from initial enquiry and technical assessment through quotation, conversion, installation and successful project completion.
The successful candidate will be expected to drive lead conversion, manage the project pipeline, coordinate internal and field teams and ensure projects progress at pace. You will have oversight of Project Coordinators and work closely with surveyors, assessors, estimators, engineers, subcontractors and senior management.
The role requires someone who can combine strong project-management disciplines with commercial awareness and excellent customer engagement.
Key Responsibilities
Take ownership of the renewable and energy-efficiency project pipeline from initial enquiry through to successful completion.
Drive the conversion of qualified opportunities into confirmed projects, ensuring leads are actively progressed and followed up.
Manage and support Project Coordinators, ensuring clear daily priorities and accountability.
Oversee customer surveys, assessments, quotations, technical requirements, approvals and project mobilisation.
Plan and coordinate surveyors, assessors, engineers, installation teams and subcontractors.
Maintain visibility of every live opportunity and project, ensuring there is a clear next action, owner and target date.
Review project values, costs and commercial performance to protect target margins.
Identify stalled opportunities and operational bottlenecks and intervene quickly to resolve them.
Maintain high standards of customer communication throughout the project lifecycle.
Manage customer escalations and ensure issues are resolved professionally and promptly.
Ensure appropriate project documentation, compliance records and handover information are maintained.
Monitor departmental KPIs covering lead response, conversion, project progression, completion, customer satisfaction and commercial performance.
Work with senior management to identify new renewable and energy-efficiency products, services and market opportunities.
Support the continued development and growth of the renewables and energy division.
Required Skills & Experience
Significant experience in a senior project management, operations or commercial role, ideally within renewables, energy efficiency, construction, M&E or a related sector.
Proven ability to manage projects from initial opportunity through to completion.
Strong commercial awareness, including understanding project costs, margins and profitability.
Demonstrable experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
Experience leading or supervising coordinators, administrators, field teams or subcontractors.
Strong customer-facing skills, including managing senior stakeholders and difficult situations.
Excellent planning, prioritisation and decision-making skills.
Ability to identify problems quickly and take ownership of delivering solutions.
Strong IT competency, including Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and project/CRM systems.
Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, target-driven environment.
Desirable Experience
Experience or qualifications in any of the following would be advantageous but are not essential:
Renewable energy and energy-efficiency projects
Solar PV
Heat pumps
Building energy management and controls
Energy monitoring and sensor technology
Insulation and building-fabric improvement
Project Management certification
Health & Safety certification
Construction or M&E management
What Success Looks Like
The successful candidate will ensure that opportunities do not sit without action, customers receive regular communication, field resources are efficiently deployed, quotations and approvals are actively progressed and confirmed projects move through delivery without unnecessary delay.
You will ultimately be accountable for helping the division achieve strong conversion, controlled project delivery, customer satisfaction and profitable growth.
Why Join Us
This is an opportunity to take a senior position within a rapidly developing part of our business and play a direct role in shaping its future growth.
We offer a competitive and negotiable salary, genuine responsibility, senior management exposure and a clear progression pathway as the division expands.
Benefits
Additional leave
Company events
Company pension
Free/on-site parking
Health & wellbeing programme
Private dental insurance
Private medical insurance
Sick pay
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