Project Manager

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- Grid Connection and Power Delivery Date: Sep 23, 2026

Location:
Madrid, ES Company: Black & Veatch Family of Companies At Black & Veatch, our employee-owners go beyond the project. For over a century, we have been breaking down social, economic and geographic barriers by making life's critical resources accessible to all. Working with us, you will help provide critical expertise as we, along with our valued clients, deliver solutions that positively impact communities around the world. Our professionals are our greatest asset, and we believe nothing is more important than the health, happiness and professional growth of our employee-owners. With a focus on flexible work-life balance options, an expanding and diverse workforce, and limitless career growth opportunities, we will give you our best to help yougive us your best, and together we can build a world of difference. Opportunity Type : Staff Contract Hire Only for this Project : No Job Summary The Grid Interconnection & Power Delivery Project Manager is the commercial and operational owner of the path to power for our clients in Spain and continental Europe. The Project Manager is a seller-doer player; acting as the client-facing delivery lead who mirrors the client's own organization and the central node between them, TSOs and DSOs, and our global engineering translating grid constraints and utility contracts into clear commercial and operational realities. This role is based in our Madrid, Spain office. We work a hybrid schedule of 3 days per week in the office and 2 days from home. Some travel to other B&V offices, client offices, project sites etc throughout the region will be required. #LI-JF1

Key Responsibilities
Path to Power
- Own the pathway to power for each client project

location:
assess grid access and connection viability at HV and MV, including interpretation of capacity maps, connection queues and infrastructure constraints.
- Apply the Spanish regulatory framework in practice and the Spanish grid code.
- Collaborate with BV’s SMEs on assessing behind-the-meter and bridging generation options as a route around connection queues, including the implications for environmental permitting.
- Navigate – in collaboration with BV’s permitting team
- through the environmental and administrative triggers that govern schedule: AAI and EIA thresholds, autonomous community requirements, and municipal licensing.
- Translate utility contracts, grid constraints and upstream system limitations into clear commercial and operational consequences for the client and for our project. Project Delivery
- Deliver across the full spectrum of services: site screening and feasibility, road-to-power strategy, grid connection studies, conceptual design, permitting support, FEED and basic design, and Owner's Engineer assignments.
- Lead competitive proposals and keep ownership to avoid eroding margin.
- Select, engage and manage local subcontractors and specialist consultants, including scope definition, commercial negotiation and quality assurance of their deliverables. Client Interface and Business Development
- Act as the client's single, named focal point through execution
- Support Business Development in moving opportunities through the commercial pipeline: shaping scope, contributing technical content to proposals, and attending client workshops and technical clarification meetings.
- Represent the company with utilities, developers, IPPs, colocation platforms and their advisors. Cross-Functional Leadership
- Act as the central node between external technical consultants, utilities, commercial teams and delivery teams, ensuring technical data is handed off cleanly and applied to the commercial strategy.
- Bridge the communication gap between technical engineers, commercial teams and external utility partners.
- Coordinate with global engineering resources in the UK, US and APAC, adapting central capability to local regulatory and market reality.
- Contribute to the development of the regional data centre capability, including standards, repeatable methodologies and knowledge transfer to more junior staff. Risk and Governance
- Maintain internal governance, documentation traceability and quality of deliverables.
- Identify and mitigate commercial, technical and schedule risk across the portfolio of live scopes. Management Responsibilities Acts as a project manager. Among responsibilities is management of a project team. The individual comprising this team may vary by project. Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical or energy discipline.
- Typically 10+ years of relevant experience across energy infrastructure, grid operations, utilities, consulting or electrical engineering, with a substantial proportion in a project management or Owner's Engineer capacity.
- Demonstrable track re