Senior Construction Manager

About The Role

Senior Construction Manager - Battery Energy Storage (BESS)

A leading European independent energy-storage provider is scaling large-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) across Europe to accelerate the energy transition. With operations across multiple European hubs, the organisation is driving grid stability, renewable integration, and sustainable energy optimisation through advanced storage and intelligent energy management technologies.

As Senior Construction Manager, you will oversee the full construction lifecycle of large-scale BESS projects (>100 MW each; >6 GW pipeline in NL). You will ensure safe, timely, and budget-compliant project delivery while representing the asset owner to suppliers, contractors, grid operators, and local stakeholders.

This is a high-impact leadership role central to the build-out of Europe's next-generation energy infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary project teams to deliver BESS construction on time, on budget, and to specification.
• Oversee all construction-related project disciplines, including planning, interface management, HSSE, QA/QC, risk, and permitting.
• Act as the primary representative to EPCs, contractors, suppliers, grid operators, and local authorities.
• Manage supplier and subcontractor performance, ensuring alignment with technical and contractual requirements.
• Collaborate closely with finance, contract management, commissioning, and engineering teams across the project lifecycle.
• Work primarily from Amsterdam with regular on-site presence across project locations in the Netherlands.

Candidate Profile

• 15+ years of experience delivering complex construction or energy infrastructure projects, with 7+ years as Project Manager in the renewable energy or power sector.
• Strong experience delivering high-voltage grid-connected projects preferred.
• BSc/MSc in Engineering, Renewable Energy, Construction Management, or similar field.
• Experienced in contract management frameworks such as UAV-GC and FIDIC.
• Proven capability managing EPCs, subcontractors, large-scale budgets, and time-critical infrastructure projects.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Fluent in Dutch and English; German is a plus.
• Willingness to travel across the Netherlands (approx. every two weeks).

Why Join?

• Play a key role in delivering the energy-transition infrastructure that will define Europe's net-zero future.
• Join a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and mission-driven team working on technology at the forefront of the renewable energy sector.
• Directly shape and deliver some of Europe's largest utility-scale BESS assets.

Apply today or contact Rafe Petitt for more information.