Equans is looking for a Project Manager (Mechanical) to join our team in Wakefield on a permanent basis. This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week. On offer is a competitive salary, bonus and benefits package.
The Mechanical Project Manager is responsible for the delivery of mechanical engineering projects across a PFI healthcare estate, ensuring full compliance with contractual obligations, HTM standards, statutory requirements, and clinical environment constraints.
The role manages lifecycle, variation, and minor capital projects from concept design through to commissioning and handover, ensuring safety, continuity of clinical services, and high-quality engineering outcomes.
What will you deliver?
Health, Safety & Compliance
- Ensure strict adherence to site safety, NHS infection control standards, and
- associated Safe Systems of Work processes.
- Compile and review RAMS, ensuring they meet clinical and PFI requirements.
- Support audits, compliance inspections, and technical reviews.
PFI & Contractual Compliance
- Ensure all projects comply with PFI contract requirements, output specifications, and performance indicators.
- Work collaboratively with SPV/ProjectCo, NHS Trust stakeholders, and external partners to achieve contractual approvals.
- Produce workstream programmes, phasing plans, and containment strategies for high-risk areas (theatres, ICU, isolation suites).
- Plan and deliver mechanical projects in live clinical environments, ensuring minimal disruption to patient services.
- Manage HTM-compliant design, installation, testing, and commissioning (HVAC, medical gases, domestic water, ventilation AHUs, heating, CHW, plant replacement, etc.).
- Ensure all works meet HTMs, HBNs, CIBSE guidance, and other relevant healthcare standards.
Technical Leadership
- Provide engineering guidance on complex mechanical systems common in hospital environments.
- Review designs, validate engineering solutions, and challenge non-compliant proposals. Ensure accurate O&M documentation, commissioning results, and asset data updates for CAFM systems.
- Drive innovation in efficiency, sustainability, and long-term asset performance.
What can we offer you?
On offer is a competitive salary, bonus and benefits package, which includes;
- 25 days annual leave (+ public holidays)
- Life Cover equivalent to 2x times annual salary
- Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
- Gym membership discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Holiday purchase scheme
- 2 corporate social responsibility days per year
- Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalized support programmes
- Attractive Employee Referral Rewards Scheme
- Access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), WOMEN TOGETHER (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
Who are we looking for?
- Experience managing mechanical projects in healthcare, PFI, or similarly critical environments.
- Knowledge of mechanical systems in hospitals: domestic water, ventilation, heating, CHW, medical gases, etc.
- Understanding of HTMs, HBNs, NHS policies, CDM Regulations, and statutory compliance.
- Experience with works in live clinical or acute hospital settings.
- Strong stakeholder management, including SPV/NHS relationships.
- Ability to produce technical reports, risk assessments, and project documentation.
- Required Skills & Experience – Desirable
- Previous PFI project experience.
- Infection control principles (ICRA), water safety, and ventilation validation knowledge.
- Lifecycle planning and PFI asset management experience. • Experience with CAFM systems (Maximo, Concept, Planet FM).
Who are we?
Equans is a world leader in energy services with nearly 100,000 employees working in more than 50 countries, with an annual turnover of over 17 billion euros.
In the UK & Ireland, Equans is a provider of technical, FM, regeneration and energy services – with specialist capabilities in smart buildings, green mobility, district & embedded energy and decentralised renewables.
Equans’ 13,500 UK & Ireland employees combine these activities to help businesses, public sector organisations and government to embrace the energy transition towards net zero, and also the digital & industrial transitions that are redesigning the way we move, work and live.
Equans is a Bouygues group company.
What's next?
If this role is of interest to you, please click below to register, apply, and track your progress! A member of our Resourcing Team will review your application and be in touch.
As part our commitment to better reflect the markets within which we operate, we encourage applications from women, ethnically diverse individuals and people with disabilities, along with all candidates who identify with protected characteristic groups under the Equality Act 2010.
At Equans we’re committed to delivering a culture where everyone’s voice is heard and supported. We know the value a diverse workforce creates, delivering better results for our people, customers, and stakeholders. Diversity and inclusion is at the core of what we do, should you join Equans you'll find a welcoming and open workplace where you're supported and encouraged to be your true self at work.
You'll also have access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), WOMEN TOGETHER (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, Young Professionals, Veterans and Reservists Network (VaR).
For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer a re-location package with this job role. Certain roles may require applicants to undergo a Disclosure check, as noted in the role requirements.
The Equans Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to Equans Managers.
