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ROLE: Project Manager
HOURS: 40 Hours
LOCATION: Scotland (Mobile with travel across Scotland and Northern England)
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We’re looking for a Project Manager t to lead a team of Project Engineers within our Lighting project function, ensuring exceptional delivery, strong customer relationships and high‑quality performance across all projects.
Role Responsibilities
- Manage and lead a team of Project Engineers delivering works for the Lighting project team.
- Maintain effective customer relationships across all projects under your supervision.
- Take proactive ownership of quality and delivery issues, ensuring effective utilisation of the engineering team, quality tools and customer engagement.
- Spend at least 60% of your time in the field managing and supporting engineers.
- Coordinate and supervise sub‑contractors and oversee any works completed alongside other trades or Mitie engineering teams.
- Report directly to the Head of Projects, ensuring staff and sub‑contractors work safely and efficiently within Health & Safety guidelines.
Main Duties
- Day‑to‑day management of employees, including conduct, performance, attendance and capability. Take appropriate action to address low standards, supported by HR where required.
- Identify, reduce and manage all project risks (technical, statutory, H&S, commercial, etc.).
- Ensure projects comply with commercial agreements, delivering on time and on budget.
- Ensure full compliance with statutory regulations, QHSE requirements and industry technical standards.
- Ensure compliance with Mitie Health & Safety policy across all activities, performing regular audits and reviews.
- Effectively induct and manage agency staff on a project‑by‑project basis to ensure smooth integration.
- Manage Health & Safety Compliance and Quality Assurance activities, including site audits, vehicle audits, toolbox talks, investigations, compliance reviews and engineer training.
- Demonstrate strong leadership with high expectations, driving continuous improvement and challenging the norm.
- Showcase excellent organisational skills, time management, process adherence, and consistent managerial capability.
- Proactively manage engineers through site visits, productivity oversight, performance management, coaching, development, recruitment and appraisals.
- Meet or exceed budget targets using reporting tools and efficient team management.
- Identify additional revenue opportunities and work with the Head of Projects to realise them.
- Manage sub‑contractors to ensure they deliver services effectively when in‑house delivery is not possible.
- Build strong customer relationships, ensuring escalations come to you first and communication remains clear and consistent.
- Support the Head of Projects in planning, resource management and project development.
- Comply with all Health & Safety policies and procedures.
- Participate fully in required training and appraisal activities.
- Undertake additional duties aligned with your capabilities as required.
Required Qualifications
- A solid level of Project Management experience within Lighting, Construction, M&E, FM or Energy sectors.
- Strong P&L management experience and high commercial acumen.
- Demonstrable experience in organisational effectiveness, operations management, budgeting, forecasting and financial principles.
- Experience developing new project opportunities and managing full P&L responsibility.
- Proven background managing a Projects Team.
- Excellent leadership and management skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal abilities, with the confidence to present to stakeholders.
- Experience creating, presenting and managing bids, tenders and proposals.
- Broad understanding of Project Management methodologies across Lighting, Construction, M&E, FM and Energy, plus solid knowledge of Health & Safety legislation.
- Strong understanding of customer service standards and key performance indicators.
- Flexible, open to change, and a confident decision‑maker.
- Customer‑focused mindset.
- Technical qualification in construction, mechanical, electrical or HVAC disciplines.
- NICEIC qualification desirable.
- Recognised Project Management qualification preferred (NEBOSH, APMP, SMSTS, CDMc, BSc, BEng, PMP, PRINCE2).
- Ability to travel across the UK and work away from home for short periods where required.
MISCM
Our market‑leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well‑known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle‑to‑work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save‑as‑you‑earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long‑term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Chloe Smailes at chloe.smailes@mitie.com.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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