Semper Services LTD
Mechanical Project Manager
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About The Role
Semper Services is looking for a mechanically biased Project Manager to take responsibility for the technical and operational delivery of a varied portfolio of small works and larger mechanical projects.
Working closely with the Contracts Manager, you will manage projects from initial site survey through to mobilisation, delivery, completion, and close-out.
The Contracts Manager will retain oversight of the wider contract, senior client relationships, and account-level commercial performance. You will focus on ensuring individual projects are accurately scoped, safely delivered, and completed efficiently.
This opportunity would suit an experienced Mechanical Supervisor, Mechanical Project Engineer, or Project Manager with a strong site-based engineering background who is ready to take ownership of a varied portfolio of works.
This is a project management role rather than a hands-on engineering position. However, the successful candidate must have a strong mechanical engineering background and be confident surveying works, assessing technical requirements, and supporting site teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Attend client sites to survey and assess mechanical works.
- Develop clear scopes of work and identify labour, materials, plant, access, and subcontractor requirements.
- Identify technical, health and safety, and operational risks.
- Prepare technical scopes and provide the information required to support quotations, project planning, and procurement.
- Plan, mobilise, and manage small works and larger mechanical projects through to completion.
- Coordinate engineers, suppliers, and specialist subcontractors.
- Monitor progress against the agreed scope, programme, and budget.
- Maintain a regular presence on client sites.
- Review RAMS, permits, and safe systems of work.
- Carry out site inspections, audits, and quality checks.
- Resolve technical and delivery issues promptly.
- Provide clear updates to clients and the Contracts Manager.
- Monitor labour, material, and subcontractor costs.
- Highlight delays, variations, overspend, and other commercial risks.
- Ensure completed works are properly documented, closed out, and ready for invoicing.
- Identify additional or follow-on works where appropriate.
- Support urgent, weekend, or out-of-hours works where required.
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Essential Requirements
- Strong practical mechanical engineering or building-services experience.
- Experience within facilities management, maintenance, building services, or M&E contracting.
- Experience surveying and scoping mechanical works.
- Experience managing projects or work packages from planning through to completion.
- Experience coordinating engineers, suppliers, and subcontractors.
- Good knowledge of health and safety in site-based engineering environments.
- Confidence communicating directly with clients and stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and changing priorities.
- Willingness to travel regularly between the London office and client sites.
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Desirable Requirements
- NVQ Level 3 in Mechanical Engineering, Building Services, Plumbing, Heating, HVAC, or a closely related discipline.
- Relevant City & Guilds qualification.
- IOSH Managing Safely, SSSTS, or SMSTS.
- CSCS or an equivalent site-access card.
- Experience delivering both small works and larger mechanical projects.
- Experience with HVAC, pumps, valves, pipework, plant rooms, heating, or chilled-water systems.
- Working knowledge of electrical building services.
- Experience managing job-level costs, variations, or margins.
- Experience carrying out site audits or engineering inspections.
- Professional accreditation, membership, or chartered status.
A university degree is not required.
About You
You will be:
- Technically credible and confident in your judgement.
- Responsive and comfortable working at pace.
- Organised, thorough, and dependable.
- Confident when dealing with clients.
- Commercially aware and motivated by successful delivery.
- Comfortable balancing office, site, and client responsibilities.
- Willing to take ownership and make decisions.
- Able to adapt your approach across projects of different sizes and levels of complexity.
- Interested in progressing towards senior technical or operational leadership.
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