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mechanical project manage - peterborough.
Mechanical Project Manage - Peterborough.
Ref: V-84614
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location.
Peterborough
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salary.
£48000 - £56000 per annum
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type.
Permanent
job description.
Mechanical Project Manager - Plumbing & HeatingLocation: Peterborough, with travel to client sites across Cambridgeshire
Salary: £48k - £56k PA
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Start Date: Ideally by the end of September 2026
The Opportunity
An established building services and maintenance business is looking for a Mechanical Project Manager to join its Peterborough team, with a strong focus on commercial plumbing and heating maintenance.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced Senior Mechanical Supervisor, Contracts Supervisor, Mechanical Engineer or similar who is ready to take the next step into a project/contract management position.
The role is approximately 70% office-based and 30% client/site-based, giving you responsibility for coordinating engineering resources, planning works, dealing directly with clients and attending sites across the Cambridgeshire region.
You will oversee a team of up to eight engineers, coordinating approximately 50-60 planned maintenance jobs throughout the year. The workload is predominantly planned preventative maintenance, with a smaller reactive maintenance element.
This is a hands-on management role where your technical knowledge of commercial heating and plumbing will be important.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate and manage a team of up to eight mechanical/plumbing and heating engineers.
- Plan and oversee approximately 50-60 planned maintenance and project works throughout the year.
- Manage predominantly planned preventative maintenance (PPM), alongside reactive maintenance requirements.
- Allocate engineers to jobs and ensure works are completed efficiently and within agreed timescales.
- Coordinate workloads, materials, access requirements and client expectations.
- Act as a key point of contact for clients across the Cambridgeshire region.
- Attend client sites to carry out surveys, inspect works, discuss requirements and provide technical support.
- Review and prepare quotations, variations and estimates where required.
- Monitor the progress, quality and commercial performance of works.
- Manage subcontractors where required and ensure works are completed safely and to specification.
- Ensure all works comply with relevant health & safety legislation, company procedures and industry standards.
- Produce and review RAMS, reports, quotations and other project documentation.
- Identify additional works and opportunities while attending client sites.
- Support engineers with technical queries and provide practical guidance when required.
- Maintain accurate records of planned and reactive works using the company's CAFM/job management systems.
- Take ownership of customer issues and ensure they are followed through to completion.
- Support the ongoing development, training and performance of the engineering team.
- Strong background in commercial plumbing and heating.
- Experience within mechanical building services, facilities management, maintenance or service environments.
- Previous responsibility for supervising or coordinating engineers.
- Experience managing planned preventative maintenance and/or reactive maintenance.
- Good understanding of commercial heating, plumbing and associated mechanical systems.
- Confident dealing directly with clients and site representatives.
- Able to organise multiple jobs and engineering resources effectively.
- Good understanding of RAMS, safe systems of work and construction/maintenance health & safety requirements.
- Commercial awareness, including quotations, variations and basic budget control.
- Comfortable using job management/CAFM software.
- Full UK driving licence.
- NVQ Level 3 in Plumbing & Heating or a relevant mechanical qualification.
- SSSTS/SMSTS.
- Gas Safe, ACS, OFTEC or other relevant industry qualifications.
- Experience working to SFG20 planned maintenance standards.
- Previous experience working across manufacturing, commercial, education or industrial environments.
- Experience managing a 24/7 or emergency callout function.
- The business currently uses Service Life for job and maintenance management, with a planned move to Joblogic.
What You'll Get
- Company vehicle.
- Monthly bonus scheme: where the monthly target is exceeded by £10,000, a bonus equivalent to 1% of basic salary is payable.
- 22 days' holiday plus bank holidays.
- 3% employer pension contribution.
- Healthcare Cash Plan.
- Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing support.
- Long-term sickness provision.
- Ongoing training and development.
- Stable pipeline of long-term maintenance work.
- Supportive working environment.
- Predominantly office-based role with regular client/site visits across Cambridgeshire.
- Opportunity to progress from a senior supervisory position into a broader project/contract management role.
