Programme Manager: Grid & Consents

About this role

Responsibilities

• Fastned is building one of Europe's most ambitious EV charging networks, and the UK is a critical growth market. As Programme Manager: Grid& Consents, you will lead the delivery of grid connections, utility diversions, highway consents, and landlord agreements across our UK charging station deployment — playing a pivotal role in getting sites open on time and to the highest standard.
• You will be a core member of the UK Construction team — a group of nine — while working daily with the wider UK team, including colleagues across expansion, location design, and legal. As a senior member of the team, you will own the critical path across a significant and growing pipeline, managing schedules, mitigating risks, and providing clear and actionable reporting.
• Stakeholder management will be central to your success. You will lead engagement with landlords, DNOs, IDNOs, third-party landowners, and highway authorities, and will need to be a natural relationship builder and a strong negotiator with the ability to influence at a senior level — someone who pursues grid operators and key stakeholders with commitment to keep projects moving.
• Based in London, you will report to the Senior Construction Lead.
• Your Core Responsibilities
• Owning the grid, utilities, and consents works programme, setting realistic but ambitious milestone dates and delivering against them.
• Owning landlord relationships throughout project delivery and collaborating with our legal team to deliver substation leases and cable easements.
• Managing the delivery of utility diversions and build-over agreements.
• Leading commercial negotiations with IDNOs and third-party landowners to deliver our grid connections.
• Overseeing the delivery of highway consents and managing relationships with highway authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Mentoring more junior project managers delivering grid, utilities, and consents work.
• Managing external consultants, including reviewing deliverables, challenging decisions, and ensuring outputs meet quality, programme, and commercial requirements to keep sites opening on time.
• Embedding a culture of continuous improvement — identifying lessons from Fastned's delivery and applying them consistently across the UK pipeline.
• Who We Are Looking For
• You thrive in complex, fast-moving environments and enjoy working with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders. As an experienced project or programme manager, you know the construction and grid world well enough to challenge decisions, hold stakeholders accountable, and stay ahead of issues before they become delays. You are energised by challenges rather than deterred by them — someone who sees a complex situation as something to be solved, gets stuck in, and gets things done. You understand a client's role in project delivery but are equally comfortable getting hands-on and delivering the work yourself. You bring structure and momentum to complex programmes — and the people skills to bring others along with you.
• You will also bring:
• A minimum of 6 years of experience in project management and construction, ideally 8 or more.
• A commercial, analytical, and solution-focused mindset with a real drive for complex challenges.
• The ability to connect and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver outstanding results.
• Exceptional communication skills with a proactive and energetic approach.
• Strong negotiation expertise to deliver favourable commercial agreements.
• Experience working with legal contracts, grid connections, utilities, and consents.
• The confidence to own your workload independently, while being a collaborative and supportive presence for the team — including mentoring more junior colleagues.
• A passion for accelerating the energy transition and creating a greener future.
• A bonus if you also bring:
• A qualification or practical experience in electrical design, particularly at high-voltage, is a great advantage.
• Even if you do not tick every box, we still want to hear from you.
• Join us in building a better future
• We work hard to change the world, but we don't forget to recognise & celebrate our successes, big and small. We put a focus on work-life balance, provide you with genuine work flexibility and have family-friendly policies in place. Benefits slightly differ depending on which country you will be working on Our core benefits include:
• Stock option plan -> we believe in shared value creation.
• A training and development budget of £2,600 per year per employee, because development and training are important to us, and our sector offers endless opportunities.
• 29 holidays. Additionally, we give you two mission days you can use to contribute to Fastned’s mission or to support a cause that is important to you.
• In order to feel & enjoy the EV life, you get access to our fully electric vehicle fleet (all charging expenses covered), also for private use.
• A paid pension plan, fully covered by Fastned.
• Full health and dental cover via Bupa.
• Daily commuting costs to the office are reimbursed.
• Daily vegetarian lunches, snacks, and drinks are provided at our office.
• Weekly CrossFit classes with a trained professional.
• Mental Wellbeing with nilo health: Access to a confidential mental health platform offering 1-on-1 coaching with psychologists, group sessions, and a variety of digital self-care tools
• Physical Wellbeing with Wellhub: Enjoy a sponsored membership providing flexible access to a vast network of local gyms, fitness classes, and premium digital apps for wellness and nutrition.
• Going the extra mile for parents: We provide you with personalised coaching support before, during, and after parental leave, facilitated by Foundree.
• Understanding women's health is beneficial for all of us, fostering empathy, improving communication, and creating a more inclusive workplace. That's why we teamed up with Flouria, providing you with quick access to a broad range of women's health professionals.
• In addition to fun events year-round, we throw notorious Christmas parties, annual ski trips and organise an amazing yearly trip abroad with all employees.
• Other perks include flexible working hours, full travel compensation, and the working gear of your choice.
• Interested? Apply today!
• We would love to have a conversation with you! Apply now, send us your CV and explain in your motivation letter why you’re excited about joining our mission to provide freedom to electric drivers and speeding up the energy transition.
• If you have any questions, please contact us via our email recruitment@fastned.uk
• Fastned stands for equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, neurodiversity, disabilities, parental status or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique.