Senior Project Manager - Heat from Mines

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South Gloucestershire Council, Yate, South Gloucestershire

Full time
Temporary
Remote working

Posted 5 days ago, 16 Dec | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 5d35e919aa6d420bb567d7c564d8a349

South Gloucestershire Council

Full Job Description

As the Senior Project Manager, you will be managing the £1.6 million budget of Green Recovery Funding from the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority.
It will be your responsibility to lead a multidisciplinary team, comprising members of the partner organisations and external stakeholders, experts, consultants and staff in other local authorities and organisations.
Working with the partner organisations, you will define the objectives and requirements for series projects and studies, and from these develop the technical requirements and specifications to procure contractors. Some of these will be technical research studies and others are expected to include contracts to drill test boreholes to assess the mine heat resource.
Project managing the delivery of projects, you will ensure they are completed on time and on budget and you will be responsible for reporting on their progress to the partner organisations, including briefing Members, Officers and other stakeholders.
This is a multi-partner initiative, so a key part of your role will be ensuring that all parties are up to date, engaged with the project, and that the outputs meet their requirements and interests including the development of policy and implementation of decarbonisation strategies.
As the project develops you will provide relevant training and briefings to both individuals and organisations.

If you want to work at the leading edge of the energy transition, have a passion for figuring-out complex issues, with excellent project management and team building skills, then we want to hear from you., You will hold a relevant degree or professional qualification with relevant professional expertise and understanding to identify where, how and if mine water heating/cooling fits into the heat decarbonisation 'eco-system' in this part of the country, and how mine heat compares with alternative solutions such as heat networks supplied by waste and renewable heat, and individual heat pumps.
It is preferable that you have a background in mine heat, although this is not essential. You may have developed your skills and experience in other related fields which are transferrable to absorb, understand and explain a large amount of technical information quickly.
You will have the breadth of knowledge to help us understand how the expected changes in our local climate will adjust the need for heating and cooling between now and 2080, and how this impacts the technical, business, environmental, public health and social-value cases for mine heat.
It is essential that you have a track record of managing external contractors, delivering infrastructure projects with multi-partner projects, and you will need to demonstrate excellent project management, reporting and organisational skills, and have experience of managing projects of around £1.6 million.
Your communication, liaison and problem-solving skills will be first rate so that you can balance the needs of the different project partners and stakeholders and ensure they are informed and remain engaged throughout the overall project.

South Gloucestershire Council is working with the West of England Combined Authority to investigate if the extensive former mine workings across the West of England and North Somerset could provide a thermal energy resource to heat and cool new and existing buildings and you will be instrumental in this project, enabling us to decarbonise heating and cooling and adapt to a rapidly changing climate. What you will be doing, We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
We trust our team to work in the way which allows them to make the biggest difference, and we continue to invest in technology to help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability and celebrate innovation.
What's special here is the strength of the team ethos, the support and the training.
We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
We're planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses.
We're providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.

This is a limited term contract, ending 31st July 2026.
This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Yate and working from home.
The role will involve regular travel to meet with the project partners and stakeholders and the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority expects the postholder to attend their office in central Bristol, weekly.
As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.