Assistant Contracts Manager

Location
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Burton office with sites around Birmingham, Lichfield, Burntwood, Gloucester and surrounding areas – typically working 39 hours per week Monday to Friday

As an Assistant Contracts Manager for Novus, you’ll get to see the impact and improvements your role delivers to your customers and team every day – taking your job satisfaction to whole new levels. This varied and challenging role offers you the opportunity to develop your career and work alongside the Contracts Manager, a secure environment with long‑term contracts and the opportunity to grow and learn.

Along with utilising your skills in Social Housing, you’ll also be looking for ways to add real social value to the communities and customers you work with. Supported by your peers, team, and management to solve problems and trusted to make decisions to grow and develop relationships and revenue.

With responsibility to work alongside the Contracts Manager, supporting them to manage Site Managers and Customer Liaison Officers, the Assistant Contracts Manager will ensure contracts are completed to programme, with zero defects, within budget and with no risk to Health & Safety of their operation team, the client, or the general public. The successful candidate will be client facing and ideally have knowledge of external Planned Works including weatherproofing, roofing, working with liquid products, traditional products and listed buildings from inception to completion of a project.

• Attractive salary & benefits to suit you
• 27 Days Hols & BH – option to buy or sell holidays
• Company pension scheme – up to 7.5%
• We also offer a;
  Discounted Healthcare Scheme, Highstreet & lifestyle discounts including Taste card, a day paid volunteering per year, length of service awards, and more….

• Assist in the preparation, processing and selection of estimates, bids and tenders.
• Assist in the development of the procurement programme.
• Assist in the presentation of the contract brief to the client.
• Manage the selection and formation of site personnel teams (inc. sub‑contractors) as determined by individual contracts
• Manage site personnel, work activities and resources to meet the requirements of individual contracts.
• Control individual contract progress towards completion.
• Ensure all necessary contract documentation / reports are accurate and produced on time.
• Identify Social Value and Customer Service requirements for each contract and manage, deliver, and report against these commitments.

As an experienced Assistant Contracts Manager or Site Manager looking to progress you will have the experience of working within a planned works contract within a social housing environment. Ideally you will hold SMSTS or associated NVQ, but if this has expired, we will support you to renew, it’s the knowledge and skills that goes with the qualification that’s essential to us.

Our preferred candidate will be experienced, knowledgeable, be a self‑starter who is focused on delivery and able to communicate well with the team to ensure everyday runs smoothly. You will need to hold a Full UK driving licence to travel to Sites daily. The role will also require a DBS check to be taken.

Novus Property Solutions is a dynamic, award‑winning property maintenance, refurbishment, compliance, and decarbonisation specialist with more than 700 colleagues in 19 locations across Great Britain, providing a combination of local knowledge and national strength. We are a social and environmentally responsible family‑owned business with a rich 129‑year heritage, delivering a range of bespoke services and solutions to a wide variety of clients.

Our vision is to be the leader in building and maintenance solutions, delivered with compassion and care for the communities in which we operate

At Novus Property Solutions we value people, and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace that enables our people to bring their full selves to work. We understand for many reasons that people very rarely meet all the criteria laid out in the job advert, so, we encourage you to apply for the role even if you do not meet all the criteria or hold all the qualifications.

You may be just who we are looking for to join our award‑winning Property Maintenance company in this, or another role.