PMO Governance Lead

Location: Flexible base location with hybrid working (1 day in the office per week)Contract: Permanent.Salary: £58,693-£71,634.

Here's what you'll be doing

E.ON UK’s Asset Optimisation and Governance (AOG) team are a growing and multi-skilled team dedicated to supporting and delivering engineering, governance, projects, risk management, and SHE expertise to enable the growth of EIS as a Sustainable Energy Solutions Business. We provide governance solutions across business activities, solve complex technical challenges, and ensure operational and technical assurance. With a commitment to maintaining governance and safety standards, we support a wide range of activities across EIS to enable our business to deliver on our promises to customers whilst navigating risk and ensuring a safe, compliant environment.

We have an exciting opportunity to build a PMO and deliver Project Governance across our Energy Infrastructure Solutions business, ensuring that the organisation has the right structure in place to deliver its wide-ranging projects effectively and efficiently. If your passionate about project and programme governance, this role is for you!

The PMO Governance Lead will be responsible for designing, implementing, and embedding a comprehensive governance framework within a newly established PMO to drive project transparency, compliance, and performance. This role will play a pivotal part in ensuring that best practices and project controls are applied across a wide variety of projects, including safety, engineering, process improvement, and operational asset management.

Main responsibilities

• Design and Implement Project Governance Framework - Create a robust governance structure that includes reporting, project controls, compliance, and risk management. Ensure alignment with the organisation's broader business goals and PMO objectives.

• Collaboration with Project Teams - Work closely with Project Managers across the business to implement governance processes that suit the needs of diverse project types, including safety, engineering, process improvement, and asset management.

• Best Practice Development - Establish best practices for project delivery, resource management, risk mitigation, and decision-making. Tailor these practices to support the organisation's varied project portfolio, driving operational excellence and consistency.

• Governance Compliance - Ensure all projects adhere to agreed governance structures, providing clear guidelines on how to implement governance in the planning, execution, and closure phases of projects. Monitor compliance and provide ongoing support to Project Managers.

• Training and Support - Provide training, guidance, and mentorship to Project Managers within the PMO and across the business to ensure successful adoption of the governance framework. Deliver workshops and one-on-one support to build governance capability and lead the project manager network to allow for knowledge sharing and support.

• Continuous Improvement - Gather feedback from project teams and stakeholders to refine governance processes over time. Ensure that the governance framework remains adaptable and scalable to evolving business needs.

What we need from you

• Bachelor’s degree or in project management, business, engineering or equivalent experience a related field.

• Project management certification in PRINCE2 or APMP.

• Proven experience establishing and implementing scalable and flexible governance frameworks in a PMO or project-driven environment, including risk management and project control.

• Solid project management experience across diverse areas such as safety, engineering, operational asset management, and process improvement, with expertise in governance best practices.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with stakeholders across departments, ensuring alignment with governance processes and achieving buy-in from senior leaders.

• Leadership skills with the initiative to take ownership of governance frameworks, along with experience mentoring Project Managers in governance practices.

• Strong problem-solving abilities, tailoring governance processes to meet various project needs, and ensuring compliance and reporting accuracy.

It would be great if you have

• Experience in project management in regulated industries such as engineering, construction, or safety-focused environments.

• Knowledge of project management methodologies and how they can integrate into a governance framework.

• Familiarity with ISO 9001 (Quality Management) and ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and Safety Management) principles.

Here’s what you need to know

Our market-leading benefits package includes 26 days holiday + bank holidays, a generous pension scheme, life cover, bonus and the chance to choose from 20 flexible benefits with tax and/or NI savings. In fact, our benefits package recently won the Personnel Today Reward, Recognition and Benefits Award 2022!

As the only energy company to feature in The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers (our 2022/23 ranking is 15th) we’ve proven that we’re committed to equal opportunities and actively promote a diverse and inclusive working environment, and fairness for everyone.

We realise the best people bring their energy at different times, so we’re happy to talk flexible working?and offer a range of flexible working options, including full time, part time and job share.

As a Disability Confident Employer we interview every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

We’ve exciting opportunities for everyone to develop their talent at E.ON. Our open access, inclusive talent networks provide networking, learning and development for all, building your skills, qualifications,?and capabilities throughout your career.?