Mechanical Project Manage Peterborough

Location: 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.

Essential Experience

• 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.

Desirable

• 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.

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.