Job Description

Programme Manager

Application Deadline: 3 September 2026

Department: Operations

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Teesside

Reporting To: Project Director (Interim)

• NZT Power’s carbon capture plant
• NEP’s onshore compression facilities

Key Responsibilities

• Own-and manage the Operational Readiness Plan (ORP), ensuring a single, integrated view of readiness across all functions, contractors, and stakeholders.
• Lead delivery of the Operational Delivery Plan (ODP), ensuring alignment with project milestones, stage gates, and start-up requirements.
• Define, track, and report progress against all readiness deliverables, ensuring clear visibility of status, risks, dependencies, and critical path activities.
• Establish and maintain programme governance, including stage gates, hold points, readiness reviews, and assurance processes.
• Integrate ORP and ODP activities with the overall project schedule, ensuring alignment with engineering, procurement, construction, systems completion, commissioning, and start-up.
• Coordinate and integrate all contributing disciplines, including Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, SHEQ, Commercial, HR, and support functions, ensuring aligned delivery of readiness objectives.
• More responsibilities can be found in the Role Profile.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Degree qualified in an Engineering, Project Management, or other relevant discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience in programme or project management within major infrastructure, energy, or process industries.
• Proven experience delivering complex, multi-discipline programmes in a regulated or major hazard environment.
• Strong understanding of Operational Readiness frameworks, commissioning, and transition to operations.
• Experience in managing integrated plans, progress measurement, and performance reporting.
• Strong experience in stakeholder and client interface management.

Benefits