Senior DCO Manager

National Grid

A global utility company focused on energy infrastructure and distribution.

Lead DCO projects, managing teams and stakeholders to secure consent for major infrastructure.

1 days ago ago

£70,000 - £78,000

Expert & Leadership (13+ years), Experienced (8-12 years)

Full Time

England, United Kingdom

Hybrid

Company Size

23,000 Employees

Service Specialisms

Engineering

Construction

Project Management

Technical Services

Consulting

Design

Operations and Maintenance

Sector Specialisms

Energy

Electricity Transmission

Electricity Distribution

Gas Transmission

Gas Distribution

Hydrogen Transmission

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

Infrastructure

Role

What you would be doing

dco management

document control

financial reporting

stakeholder coordination

design change

supplier management

Lead and embed positive safety and wellbeing culture within team to improve collective safety performance ensuring adherence to company policy, aims and objectives.
Lead the production management and document control process and work collaboratively with the appointed supplier to ensure they support delivery of the DCO products to maintain schedule.
Work with a team of project managers to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting and forecasting is provided by suppliers.
Manage coordination of key internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of DCO application and through examination leading to a successful consent.
Be involved in defining and agreeing project consenting and communication strategies considering interfacing projects and dependencies in particular with the consents and external affairs teams working on the project.
Coordination of project design change control process to ensure any design changes affecting the DCO products are captured, assessed and are tracked to mitigate any risk to schedule.
Lead, develop and performance manage direct reports and effectively lead matrixed team members to deliver a successful DCO application and examination to time, cost and quality expectations.
Collaborate closely and effectively with other DCO project leads, ensuring that the DCO programme accounts for all known risks and lessons learned from other DCO Projects.
Drive understanding of the DCO process into the project team ensuring lessons learned from each stage are reviewed and shared across Strategic Infrastructure.
Work with integrated project team to coordinate technical inputs and outputs required for DCO submission.
Coordinate delivery of the DCO products to a high degree of quality with a right first-time approach.
Coordinate and lead collaborative planning workshops to accurately plan the DCO schedule to ensure deadlines are met.
Manage key suppliers to ensure their contracts, schedule and deliverables align with expectations.
Be involved in agreeing and implementing and coordinating consultation activities for the project with the Project Director authorities per the requirements of the Planning Act 2008 (as amended).

What you bring

project management

stakeholder management

nsip

integrated team