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Project Manager

Aberthaw – South Wales

£70k - £75k

Sphere Solutions are currently recruting for a Project Manager, to work for a company made up on 10 local authorities in South East Wales. Our client are developing the old Aberthaw Power Station.

The planning for this former power station based at Aberthaw in the Vale of Glamorgan represents a game-changing opportunity to reset the CCR economy and green energy needs of the entire Southeast Wales region.

Our client will lead the demolition, remediation, and future development of the site. The demolition procurement is now in the final stages and will commence this year. The new site masterplan for the redevelopment, which will commence with the remediation of the site and early reclamation of the PFA, will seek to:

* Support the production of renewable and green energy projects;

* Provide an accompanying battery storage facility to support the green energy projects

* Support a net zero-carbon manufacturing cluster which will include green hydrogen production facilities;

* Help develop a green energy innovation centre to promote innovation, growth, knowledge and community interaction with the zero-carbon future of Wales;

* Be responsible for the development and maintenance of a bio-diverse ecology park which will include a visitor centre, providing amenities to the local community; and

* Create the correct conditions to support industrial de-carbonisation and future giga-plant facilities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

* Ideally lives locally to the area

* Experienced in managing programmes and demonstrate the foresight of managing development sites

* Ability to produce programmes of work

* Energy & Renewables experience (preferred) but will look at candidates with civils, build, resi experience

The project is 6 months in with another 2 ½ years to run. With the future development opportunity on the site (data centres etc..) there could be 10 years work in total.

Salary:

* Salary £70-£75k + up to 20% pension contribution.

* The role is not site based, more hybrid – spending 1-2 days max per week down at Aberthaw.

If you are interested and would like further details, please don’t hesitate to get in touch