Job summary
Mechanical & Electrical Project Manager
Full-Time (37 Hours)
Salary Scale: £44,392- £57,075
Job Reference: MEPM/0310/0126
Choice is seeking to appoint a Mechanical & Electrical Project Manager. This role is responsible for delivering and managing planned mechanical and electrical maintenance and project works across the organisation’s property portfolio, ensuring compliance, quality, and value for money. It provides technical expertise and project leadership, overseeing contractors and consultants while maintaining accurate asset data. The post also supports delivery of sustainability and net zero objectives and contributes to effective stakeholder, budget, and team management.
Essential criteria:
1. Electrical or Mechanical Engineering degree
2. At least 3 years’ experience managing or delivering mechanical and/or electrical, contract management, professional services or facilities management service.
3. Experience in delivering significant programmes of maintenance (at least £1M) and managing them to quality, time and budget.
4. Proficient in the use of CAD
5. Detailed technical knowledge and experience of mechanical and electrical installations in both a domestic and commercial environment.
6. Experience in delivering VFM in Planned projects or similar.
7. Demonstrable experience delivering to budget.
Our employees have access to a range of benefits: -
8. 28 days annual leave and 12 public holidays;
9. Flexible/Hybrid working opportunities – anticipated 2 working days in the office;
10. Excellent work-life balance: we support flexible working e.g. accruing an extra 2 days annual leave per month through flexitime, starting hours between 8am and 10am and finishing between 4pm and 6pm;
11. 12% employer pension contribution;
12. Essential car user allowance;
13. Learning and Development opportunities;
14. Paid maternity and paternity leave;
15. Bereavement leave;
16. Death in service benefit x3 annual salary;
17. Health cash plan to include annual routine dental treatments, dental accident & injury, yearly optical, specialist consultations, diagnostic tests and scans, complementary therapies e.g. physiotherapy, acupuncture, osteopathy and chiropractic treatments, alternative therapies e.g. reflexology, head massage, allergy testing, and yearly health screening.
Completed application forms should be returned by 11.30pm, Wednesday 21st January 2026.
Please be advised that failure to clearly state or reflect the essential criteria in your CV may result in your application not being shortlisted.
NB: The panel may enhance the criteria in order to facilitate short-listing of the post.
*If shortlisted you will be sent an email inviting you for interview, please check the email address you have provided on the application and also your junk main folder*
The successful candidate will be required to provide proof of essential qualifications and also provide documentary evidence of their eligbility to work in the United Kingdom.
We are also committed to adhering to the Access NI Code of Practice/Service Level of Agreement in relation to requesting disclosure checks where appropriate and processing information in accordance with the code. Choice has a policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offender and it is available upon request (email: recruitment@choice-housing.org)