Ref: #73964

HV Substation Construction Manager – Madrid, Spain – 12 months+

  • Practice Cloud & Infrastructure

  • Technologies Industrial Automation & Robotics

  • Location Madrid, Spain

  • Type Contract

HV Substation Construction Manager – Madrid, Spain - 12 months+

We are seeking an experienced HV Substation Construction Manager to lead the delivery of a major grid connection and high-voltage substation project in Madrid. This is a critical role responsible for ensuring the successful design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and energisation of HV infrastructure that supports a large-scale, mission-critical development.

  • You will need to work onsite in Madrid on a full time basis.
  • Fluent in English and Spanish.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end delivery of HV substation works, ensuring safe, on-time, and high-quality execution.
  • Drive programme certainty through robust planning, schedule management, and contractor performance oversight.
  • Champion a zero-harm safety culture, ensuring compliance with local regulations, industry standards, and best practices for HV construction.
  • Manage EPC contractors, consultants, and owner’s engineers through all project phases.
  • Coordinate utility and grid interfaces, including engagement with REE, DSOs, and connection stakeholders.
  • Oversee commissioning, energisation planning, and readiness activities.
  • Ensure effective integration between HV infrastructure, MEP systems, and wider project delivery programmes.
  • Monitor budgets, forecasts, variations, and commercial performance while supporting value engineering initiatives.
  • Identify, manage, and mitigate key project risks, including utility constraints, long-lead equipment, and programme dependencies.
  • Provide clear reporting on progress, risks, schedule performance, and delivery outcomes.

Your Skills

  • Degree qualified in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, or a related discipline.
  • 10+ years’ experience delivering HV substation, transmission, or grid infrastructure projects (45kV to 400kV+).
  • Proven track record managing EPC contractors and delivering projects through commissioning and energisation.
  • Strong understanding of Spanish grid requirements, utility interfaces, IEC standards, and HV construction safety practices.
  • Experience in data centre, mission-critical, or large-scale infrastructure environments is highly desirable.
  • Strong leadership, stakeholder management, commercial awareness, and programme delivery skills.

Advantageous experience:

  • Safe delivery of HV infrastructure with excellent EHS performance.
  • Achievement of key energisation milestones ahead of operational requirements.
  • Strong contractor performance and programme optimisation.
  • Effective coordination between utility, construction, and commissioning stakeholders.
  • Transparent reporting and proactive risk management throughout the project lifecycle.

Please apply with your latest CV, chloe.carr@next-ventures.com

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