Utilities Manager

Acciona

The Role

Overview

Manage utility design, delivery, and coordination for a large infrastructure project

Key Responsibilities

  • quantity tracking
  • permit management
  • site investigation
  • utility relocation
  • construction methodology
  • risk identification

Tasks

-Manage quantity tracking throughout the design phase to enable accurate tracking of budget costs. -Manage the utility-related permit process and permit engineers (e.g. ground penetration permit). -Formulate overall utility delivery strategy informing pricing and construction methodologies. -Initiate identification of risk in design which could be eliminated, mitigated or managed during construction. -Articulate a construction methodology and plan as part of a technical submission to utility providers. -Ensure design meets the budget and constructability requirements. -Engage with utility providers and stakeholders to ensure the utility design meets project requirements. -Manage early site investigation works identifying all underground and overhead assets. -Engage with utility providers to arrange design and delivery of utility relocations and/or removals as required. -Manage a team of utility site and project engineers as required to deliver the works.

Requirements

  • 8+ years
  • construction
  • engineering
  • bachelor's
  • utilities
  • design

What You Bring

-Minimum 8 years’ experience in a construction/engineering environment with significant exposure to design, costing, estimating and planning -Strong commitment to economic, environmental, and social progress -Bachelor’s degree in engineering or relevant discipline -Strong long-term pipeline of works -Demonstrated experience in a similar role with a strong understand of the utilities space

Benefits

-Annual pay review and discretionary bonus -Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave -Company Share scheme -Income protection

The Company

About Acciona

-Born from early 20th‑century engineering firms, it reinvented itself in 1997 as a champion of green infrastructure and renewable energy. -Headquartered near Madrid, it went public on Spain’s IBEX‑35 and now spans over 40 countries. -In infrastructure, it engineers and builds major transport corridors, bridges, tunnels, desalination plants, and urban light‑rail systems. -Its water division tackles everything from drinking‑water treatment to large‑scale desalination and wastewater reuse projects. -It also designs sustainable urban real‑estate and provides financial, mobility, and social‑infrastructure services. -Flagship projects range from the Eurus wind farm in Mexico and Sydney light‑rail to Australia’s pioneering waste‑to‑energy plants. -Unusually, it spun off its turbine unit into Nordex yet remains a top shareholder—spanning full clean‑energy value chains. -It even crafted the world’s first prefabricated lighthouse, blending innovation and practical construction expertise.

Sector Specialisms

Industrial

Energy

Infrastructure

Water Resources

Transport

Utilities

Government

Heavy Civil

Marine

Solar

Wind

Buildings

Residential

Commercial

Nuclear