Project Manager - Peterborough
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Project Manager - Peterborough
Application Deadline: 8 May 2026
Department: Peterborough Hire And Service Centre
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Peterborough Hire And Service Centre
Reporting To: Olga Sidor
Compensation: GBP 44,000 - GBP 54,000 / year
Description
Are you looking to join a successful and growing organisation who are committed to creating a great safe place to work where all employees have the opportunity to contribute, grow and develop? We are looking for a Project Manager to join our successful hire team in Peterborough, travelling covering the East midlands Region and East Anglia, covering projects across the region.
Your skills as a Project Manager will play a critical role in ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, to specification, to budget and to the satisfaction of the customer, contributing to our continued business growth.
* At Portakabin we have a supportive culture, where we nurture and develop our teams. We are looking for a project manager with people leadership skills as this role will have line manager responsibility for part of the project team*.
Role Details:
• Annual Salary: GBP 44,000 - GBP 54,000 depending on experience
• Annual on target bonus of 10%
• Role based: Peterborough Office - Covering the East midlands Region and East Anglia - You must live in the region.
• Permanent
• Company car
• Eligible to join Private Medical Scheme
• Annual leave of 25 days per annum plus bank holidays and opportunity to buy an additional 5 days each year.
• Full UK driving licence, due to regional travel requirements.
In this role you will be required to:
• Take full project management responsibility for allocated projects, ensuring safe delivery on time, to specification, to budget and to customer satisfaction.
• Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver project objectives.
• Maintain or improve project margins and positive cash flow through effective planning and budget management and compliance with company project delivery processes.
• Identify, manage and mitigate project risks, maintaining an up-to-date risk register.
• Support bid and pre-construction activity as required, contributing project delivery expertise.
• Ensure contractual obligations are consistently met.
• Produce reports and updates for stakeholders, including analysis of progress against programme, costs and key milestones
Our Ideal Candidate
• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Project management qualification, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience in managing projects with demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate project teams.
• People Management experience
• Strong knowledge of financial control in project delivery, cost management, and negotiating terms and settlement of final accounts.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve issues during project delivery.
• Ability to produce clear and accurate reports and analysis for stakeholders.
• Strong awareness of Health & Safety, with confidence to challenge or raise concerns on site.
• Confidence working on active CDM construction sites (the role is not purely office based).
• Comfortable working around heavy plant and logistics, including cranes, HIABs, and abnormal load lorries.
• Experience coordinating subcontractors and site activities.
• Ability to review drawings, and manage installation sequences.
NOTE: If we receive a high volume of applications for a role, we reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than scheduled.
Benefits & Opportunities
• Contributory pension including life insurance benefit
• A range of dedicated health and wellbeing services
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Employee Benefits Program (Discounts at 100s of shops, gyms, restaurants and even holidays!)
• Learning & development opportunities and resources
• Opportunity for career progression
• A chance to give back to your community with an annual volunteering day