Heated Mechanical Services
Junior Project Manager
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An excellent opportunity has arisen for an organised and proactive Project Manager to join the Projects Team of an established and growing facilities management and building services business.
The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing a portfolio of facilities, refurbishment, construction, and building services projects, managing each project from initial instruction and planning through to completion and final handover.
This is a varied, hands-on position combining office-based project management with regular client and site visits. You will coordinate labour, subcontractors, materials, budgets, and programmes while ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the required commercial and quality standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage multiple live projects from initial instruction, planning, and mobilisation through to completion and handover.
- Develop project programmes, delivery plans, budgets, and key project milestones.
- Coordinate directly employed engineers, subcontractors, suppliers, and other project resources.
- Organise labour, materials, plant, equipment, and site access to ensure works progress efficiently.
- Monitor project expenditure, including labour, materials, and subcontractor costs, ensuring projects remain within agreed budgets.
- Attend client meetings, pre-start meetings, site inspections, progress meetings, and project handovers.
- Monitor project progress against programme and proactively identify and resolve potential delays or delivery issues.
- Maintain regular communication with clients, providing clear updates on progress, timescales, variations, and project requirements.
- Manage variations and additional works, ensuring changes are accurately recorded, costed, and approved.
- Obtain and review supplier and subcontractor quotations, ensuring competitive pricing and value for money.
- Monitor workmanship and project quality, ensuring snagging and defects are identified and resolved promptly.
- Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with company procedures, relevant regulations, and health & safety requirements.
- Maintain accurate project documentation, including budgets, progress reports, site photographs, variations, and completion records.
- Work closely with Projects, Operations, and Engineering teams to ensure effective mobilisation, delivery, and handover.
- Build strong relationships with existing clients and identify opportunities for additional works and repeat business.
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The Successful Candidate
- Previous experience in a Project Manager, Assistant Project Manager, Contracts Manager, or similar project delivery role.
- Experience within facilities management, building services, M&E, construction, refurbishment, or small works projects would be highly advantageous.
- Demonstrable experience managing several projects or workstreams simultaneously.
- Good commercial awareness with experience monitoring project budgets and controlling costs.
- Ability to produce, understand, and manage programmes of works.
- Experience coordinating engineers, subcontractors, suppliers, and site-based teams.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads and manage competing deadlines.
- Confident communicating with clients, subcontractors, and internal teams.
- A proactive and practical approach to resolving project and site issues.
- Good understanding of health & safety requirements within a construction or building services environment.
- Comfortable working independently while contributing to a wider Projects and Operations team.
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This position would suit someone looking to develop their career within a growing building services and facilities management business, taking ownership of a varied portfolio of projects while working closely with clients and operational teams. The role offers a mixture of office-based project management and site-based responsibility, providing excellent exposure across the full project lifecycle.
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