Project Manager – Electrical / Utilities Projects
📍 Stafford or Southern Region, UK
💰 £50,000 – £65,000 + benefits
📄 Permanent | Full-time
We are recruiting for two experienced Project Managers to join a leading multidisciplinary engineering contractor delivering complex infrastructure projects across the UK. With more than a century of engineering expertise, the organisation works across sectors including Water, Power & Energy, Pharmaceutical, Nuclear, and Food & Beverage, providing design and build solutions for major infrastructure programmes.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established engineering business where safety, collaboration, and professional development are strongly valued. The role offers the chance to manage technically interesting projects while working within a supportive and forward-thinking team.
The Role
As Project Manager, you will be responsible for delivering engineering projects from planning through to completion, ensuring they meet scope, cost, quality, and schedule targets.
You will act as the key point of contact for stakeholders while leading project teams to deliver safe, efficient, and high-quality outcomes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the delivery of multiple engineering projects from design through to commissioning
- Managing project programmes, budgets, forecasts, and reporting
- Acting as the primary point of contact for stakeholders and maintaining strong working relationships
- Coordinating engineers, supervisors, and subcontractors to ensure work meets technical and safety standards
- Identifying project risks and opportunities and implementing mitigation strategies
- Managing project changes and ensuring clear communication of progress
- Promoting collaboration across project teams and partners
- Driving continuous improvement through feedback and lessons learned
About You
To succeed in this role, you will be an experienced project professional with strong leadership and communication skills, ideally within electrical, controls, or utilities infrastructure projects.
You will bring:
- Proven experience managing engineering or infrastructure projects
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams from design through to commissioning
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Good commercial awareness and understanding of project finances
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Proficiency with project management tools such as MS Project and Excel
- Knowledge of electrical, control systems, or utilities infrastructure
- Project management qualification such as APM, PRINCE2 or equivalent
- HNC/HND or Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline
- CSCS/ECS card and SMSTS/SSSTS (preferred)
- Full UK driving licence
What’s on Offer
A competitive salary and benefits package designed to support you both professionally and personally, including:
- Company pension scheme
- Death in service benefit
- Private healthcare
- Hybrid working (following probation)
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Option to purchase up to 5 additional days of annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
- Retail and lifestyle discounts
- Overtime opportunities
- Employee referral scheme
About the Opportunity
This is a great opportunity to join a well-established engineering organisation delivering essential infrastructure projects across the UK. The business is committed to creating a supportive, inclusive environment where people are encouraged to develop their careers and make a meaningful impact.
If you are an experienced Project Manager looking to work on complex engineering projects within a collaborative and forward-thinking organisation, we would love to hear from you.