Project Manager

About this role

We're looking for someone to help grow Ember's network of charging hubs. You'll work alongside our existing hub developers to find sites, take them through legals and planning, manage the build and energise them. How you work and think matters more to us than which industry you've worked in. You think clearly, can run several projects at once and are as at home on a site as behind a desk. About Ember We're building the future of public transport — convenient, affordable, connected and zero-emission.

Our goal is to make it easier and more enjoyable to get from A to B with Ember than it is with your own car. Ember is a tech company, not a traditional bus operator. We've built a platform that coordinates our entire operation — everything from monitoring vehicles and controlling chargers to selling tickets and calculating ETAs. This allows us to use electric buses more intensively than anyone else in the world, leading to a massive reduction in emissions.

It also helps us provide a much better passenger experience, with innovative features like demand-responsive stops. We’re still tiny, with a handful of routes and ~100 buses. The challenge is to scale this 50x whilst staying lean, increasing efficiency and delivering an even better product experience. We’ve recently raised a Series A from some of Europe’s leading climate VCs and are looking for mission-driven individuals who want to get on board and help take us to the next level.

The role Charging hubs are Ember's key growth enabler. They give us the ultra-fast charge points we need to run our network, and they act as a base for our fleet — parking, washing, driver lounges and more. We have hubs across Scotland today, with additional sites across the UK under construction or in the pipeline. You'll join a small team of four. You'll start out supporting the team on their live sites, but we'll be looking for you to be running your own sites end-to-end as quickly as possible.

We're typically running a handful of projects at any one time. Step one is finding a site. You'll need to think about where we need charging capacity to support future routes, scout industrial estates and brownfield plots and reach out to commercial agents, local authorities and landlords. Some great sites are advertised but many are not, so landing one usually means being patient and creative. Once you've got a site, we move on to lease negotiations, design, the planning application and the power connection.