Job Description
Project Manager (Mechanical Engineering)
?? £40,000-£55,000
?? Colchester base | UK & EU travel
?? Engineering projects | Hands-on delivery | Leadership growth
If you're a Project Manager with mechanical engineering roots, and you thrive on turning complex ideas into real-world results, this might just be the role you've been waiting for.
You'll be the right hand to the Operations Director, trusted to take ownership of multiple engineering projects across the UK and Europe. From design coordination and client meetings to on-site delivery, you'll be at the heart of it all: solving problems, building relationships, and keeping projects running like clockwork.
This isn't a role for box-tickers or clipboard carriers, it's for someone who genuinely gets engineering and knows how to bring people, process, and progress together.
What you'll be doing:
1. Managing engineering projects end-to-end, planning, coordination, budgets, reporting, and delivery
2. Working closely with the Ops Director to prioritise and lead multiple concurrent projects
3. Providing technical oversight and design input based on sound mechanical engineering principles
4. Liaising with clients, suppliers and site teams to ensure deadlines and standards are met
5. Preparing project documentation, drawings and progress updates
6. Travelling across the UK and EU...