Project Manager

At Ember, we support diversity across our team and customers. We work to ensure every employee feels respected and able to give their best, whether temporary, part-time or full-time. We’re happy to offer flexible working patterns where they make sense, are compassionate when it comes to time off and offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave.

Read more about our approach in our Equal Opportunities Policy .

You'll receive a salary of £45,000–£60,000 per annum, depending on your experience and skills, plus share options. You'll be expected to work from our lovely office in central Edinburgh most days — we value in-person communication — but there's flexibility around the odd day from home, with an expectation that you'll spend some time travelling to different sites.

Send your CV and a short note on why this interests you.

Applications close Friday 2 October at 5pm.

You should have a desire to get involved in the growth of a quickly scaling business, with a real opportunity to make your mark. How you work and think matters more to us than specific industry experience. The following should sound a lot like you:

Curious and quick to learn. You're comfortable in unfamiliar territory — new technical specs, new legal terms, new planning processes — and you treat each one as an opportunity to learn. You don't expect to know everything on day one.

Engineering mindset. You're the sort of person who'll happily watch YouTube videos explaining concrete reinforcement, three-phase distribution or substation transformers. You'll be excited to dive into the same level of detail on our projects.

A first-principles thinker. You take problems back to fundamentals rather than reaching for jargon or the way things are usually done. When you work with experts — solicitors, architects, engineers — you treat them as people you can learn from, not people you can outsource your thinking to.

Highly organised. Managing a pipeline of projects is complex, with many timelines, people to chase, details to look into and things that can (and will) go wrong. We want you at Inbox Zero, not in inbox hell.

Comfortable using AI. At a minimum you use it as part of how you work — to learn faster, draft documents and get to the bottom of unfamiliar topics. But maybe you'll go further and build software to help the team work faster and more precisely.

Hands-on. Hubs are built in the real world, not behind a screen. You'll meet landlords, talk to electricians and look at drains, but you'll also need to read contracts and chase agents who've gone quiet.

A strong sense of what good looks like. Whatever the topic, problem or issue. You need to know how to hold yourself and others to a high standard.