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Electrical Contract Manager
📍 Exeter, Devon | 💼 Permanent, Full-Time | 🌐 Mitie Projects – Building Services
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Electrical Contract Manager to join our MEP Mitie Projects South Team in Exeter. This is an exciting opportunity to take on a leadership role within a business renowned for delivering high-quality building services projects, both locally and nationally.
As an Electrical Contract Manager, you'll report directly to the Operations Manager and take full ownership of multiple projects—covering traditional and Design & Build schemes. You'll be responsible for planning, procurement, delivery, financial performance, and client satisfaction, ensuring safe and successful project outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
1. Lead the delivery of electrical projects from pre-construction through to handover.
2. Manage project planning, resourcing, budgets, and timelines.
3. Conduct site visits, surveys, client meetings, inspections, and handovers (travel and overnight stays may be required).
4. Provide guidance, support, and leadership to project teams, monitoring performance and development.
5. Oversee procurement of materials, subcontractors, and suppliers, ensuring cost efficiency.
6. Manage the customer relationship, handling expectations and resolving disputes.
7. Prepare and present Cost Value Reconciliation (CVR) forecasts to management.
8. Liaise with Design, Estimating, and Subcontract teams to ensure successful project delivery.
9. Drive performance improvements and promote continuous development within the operations team.
10. Ensure strict compliance with Health & Safety, statutory testing, and industry standards (IEE, NICEIC, JCT, NEC etc.).
11. Maintain accurate project documentation, permits to work, and compliance registers.
12. Identify and maximise opportunities for extra works and revenue growth.
What You'll Need to Succeed
13. Core electrical qualifications (NVQ Level 3 / City & Guilds).
14. Ideally, HNC / HND in Electrical or Building Services Engineering.
15. Proven experience as an Electrical Contract Manager or Project Manager.
16. Strong background in Health & Safety management, including CDM Regulations.
17. Commercially astute with excellent financial and project management skills.
18. Strong client relationship management and communication skills.
19. Ability to lead teams, manage change, and deliver projects successfully under pressure.
Why Join Us?
20. Be part of a leading building services team delivering projects across multiple sectors.
21. Excellent opportunities for career progression and professional development.
22. Competitive salary, benefits, and company-wide support.
23. A collaborative working culture built on safety, performance, and customer service.
👉 If you're an experienced Electrical Contract Manager looking to take the next step in your career with a market leader in building services, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help shape the delivery of exceptional MEP projects with Mitie.
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,!
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 Dan Dyke at .