Electrical Small Works Project Manager

Location: Essex, office-based with occasional site visits-
Sector: M&E Building Services, Electrical Small Works, Maintenance Contracts
Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Salary: Up to -65,000 per annum, depending on experience

About the Company
Our client is a well-established M&E contractor based in Essex, delivering high-quality mechanical and electrical services across public sector buildings, schools, healthcare facilities, and other institutional environments. The business has built a strong reputation for reliability, technical expertise, and long-term client relationships, supporting both new build and refurbishment projects across London and the Home Counties.

Role Overview
The Electrical Small Works Project Manager will be responsible for managing and coordinating electrical small works projects and maintenance contract works across healthcare, education, public sector, and institutional buildings.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage electrical small works projects from initial enquiry through to completion and handover.
• Oversee electrical works across healthcare, education, public sector, and institutional buildings.
• Support maintenance contracts, reactive works, planned works, refurbishments, and minor project delivery.
• Attend occasional site visits to review works, meet clients, assess project requirements, and monitor progress.
• Liaise with clients, consultants, site teams, subcontractors, suppliers, and internal management teams.
• Coordinate labour, subcontractors, materials, plant, and procurement to support successful project delivery.
• Monitor project costs, budgets, variations, programmes, risks, and delivery updates.
• Ensure works comply with electrical regulations, health and safety requirements, client standards, and agreed quality expectations.

• Proven experience as an Electrical Project Manager, Electrical Contracts Manager, Small Works Manager, or similar.
• Strong background in electrical building services, ideally within an M&E contractor environment.
• Experience delivering small works, maintenance contracts, refurbishments, reactive works, or planned works.
• Experience working across healthcare, education, public sector, commercial, or institutional buildings would be highly beneficial.
• Strong understanding of electrical installations, maintenance works, compliance, and building services project delivery.
• Commercial awareness, including cost control, procurement, variations, reporting, and budget management.
• Confident liaising with clients, subcontractors, suppliers, consultants, and internal teams.
• Strong organisational, communication, planning, and problem-solving skills, with a full UK driving licence advantageous.

• Salary up to -65,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• Company pension scheme.
• Full-time, permanent position with long-term stability.
• Office-based role in Essex with occasional site visits.
• Opportunity to work with a well-established M&E contractor.
• Exposure to healthcare, education, public sector, and institutional projects.