Project Manager, TMO
We are Lightsource bp – and we’re on a mission to become a global leader in onshore renewables, anchored by our proven track record in solar development.
For over a decade we’ve been actively working to diversify the way our world is powered with sustainable and responsible renewable power. We work to safely deliver affordable, reliable, large-scale onshore renewable and energy storage solutions to help the world decarbonise.
Our growing business is constantly innovating and investing to help drive the energy transition. Our people and projects are focused on supporting long-term sustainable growth and energy security.
Lightsource bp operates with five core values: Safety, Integrity, Respect, Sustainability, and Drive.
We seek to attract and hire individuals who share our commitment to creating a safe workplace, uphold the highest standards of integrity, and demonstrate respect for colleagues, communities, and the environment. Our recruitment process promotes sustainability by valuing long-term growth and responsible practices, while seeking candidates with the drive to innovate and lead in the global energy transition.
Together, these values shape how we engage, assess, and welcome talent to join us in delivering transformational solar power solutions worldwide.
Lightsource bp was fully acquired by bp in 2024.
What you’ll do (the role)
Summary
The Project Manager in the Global Transformation Management Office (TMO) team leads delivery of digital and non‑digital projects across the global portfolio, applying the most appropriate agile or traditional methodology to ensure outcomes are delivered to scope, time and budget. They own a single source of truth for operational plans, coordinate resources and vendors, manage risks, issues and dependencies, and drive stakeholder alignment and decision‑focused governance to realise measurable business value. Reporting into the TMO Program Management function, they also coach and enable delivery teams and provide concise, data‑driven reporting and continuous‑improvement inputs to ensure predictability and strategic alignment
Responsibilities of the Role
- Deliver project outputs to scope, time and budget: translate project objectives into measurable milestones and acceptance criteria; execute plans to deliver agreed outputs, monitor spending and escalate deviations early to protect outcomes.
- Own operational plans and a single source of truth (SSoT): maintain and govern up to date project plans, task lists, backlogs, dates, owners, dependencies and risks so the team has one reliable dataset for prioritisation and decision making.
- Coordinate resources, vendors and cross project dependencies: secure and allocate internal and third-party resources, manage capacity and portfolio overlaps, and proactively resolve interproject dependencies to keep delivery on track.
- Support stakeholder coordination, clear communication and decisions: proactively align stakeholders, prepare concise meeting artefacts, run decision focused forums, capture actions/owners and follow up to ensure timely inputs and approvals.
- Manage day to day risks, issues and change control end to end: own risk and issue logs, quantify impacts, implement mitigations, apply change control for scope/schedule/cost changes and escalate unresolved or high impact items to the senior PM or sponsor.
- Facilitate delivery team performance and capability: remove blockers, coordinate BAs and vendors, ensure tasks have owners and realistic estimates, and coach PM/BA colleagues to model strong delivery behaviors.
- Provide reliable reporting and drive continuous improvement: produce concise, data driven weekly status updates (R/Y/G, KPIs), track commitments vs outcomes, capture lessons learned and propose small process improvements to raise delivery quality
Why you’ll make a great member of the team
Experience & Knowledge Required
- Strong understanding of project management approaches and methods
- Experience in agile and traditional (waterfall/hybrid) delivery methods and ability to tailor approaches as needed
- Any knowledge and experience of the Renewable Energy sector would be an advantage
- 2-4 years hands-on project management delivering digital and non-digital projects
Skills Required
- Good negotiation skills and the ability to develop strong working relationships
- Strong stakeholder management
- Good commercial and business awareness Ability to adapt to continually changing priorities and aggressive project timeframes
- Possesses an analytical mind, with a keen eye for detail and desire to probe further into data
- Takes ownership and uses initiative
- Good knowledge in MSProject, Planner, Excel, PowerBI
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Education Required
- Bachelor or Master degree in computing, project, or business management subject, plus some project management experience OR
- Good level of general education with a good level of project management experience
- Any project management certifications would be an advantage
Why you’ll want to work for us
Our company is a place where you can be yourself and grow, a place where your ideas and opinions matter.
Be you: We pride ourselves on being an inclusive community, where every individual is valued and treated with respect.
Be responsible: Our culture is driven by our core values – from operating safely to ensuring our projects are responsible.
Be recognized: Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits including annual bonus, retention bank, health insurance, pension and other local benefits.
Be inspired: Beyond your day-to-day working life at Lightsource bp, there’s a variety of initiatives that will contribute to your own personal development. These include our charitable causes, supporting our solar honey project, or volunteering on our VIBES committee to name a few.
Our core values: Lightsource bp truly cares about creating a sustainable future through safe, responsible and meaningful low carbon energy projects. Our core values of Safety, Integrity, Respect, Sustainability and Drive are the guiding principles for everything we do.
For further information on our career opportunities and life at Lightsource bp, please visit https://www.lightsourcebp.com/careers/