Senior Contracts Manager; Ops Manager

Position: Senior Contracts Manager (Ops Manager)
Competitive Salary + Standard UK Benefits England South East Ridge Permanent
Power Generation, T&D

T&D
Position:
Senior Contracts Manager (Operations)

Location:

Hertfordshire, UK (Hybrid Working)
Benefits:
Competitive Salary + Standard UK Benefits Profile:
We're looking for an experienced and inspiring Senior Contracts Manager to lead the safe and successful delivery of major projects across our portfolio of power projects. This is an opportunity to influence projects that matter, lead high-performing teams and shape how we deliver essential infrastructure. As Senior Contracts Manager, you'll provide strategic leadership across a portfolio of major construction projects, ensuring they are delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest quality standards.

You'll play a key role in connecting with colleagues, supply partners and clients, providing assurance, insight and leadership throughout project delivery from a construction and buildability perspective. Reporting to the Construction Director, you'll lead teams of construction professionals and work closely with our supply chain partners to create a collaborative, high-performing delivery environment. This is a highly visible leadership role where you'll have the opportunity to influence decisions, drive continuous improvement and make a lasting impact on the success within the business.

Roles & Responsibilities :

Take ownership of construction activities across multiple new connections or infrastructure projects, from design development through to construction and final handover.

Lead, manage, and mentor a team of Project Managers, including setting objectives, managing performance, and the creation of structured development pathways.

Champion a culture of safety, wellbeing and continuous improvement.

Build strong, collaborative relationships with supply chain partners and internal stakeholders.

Build trusted relationships with our clients, resolve escalations and drive positive customer satisfaction

Oversee subcontractor and supply chain performance, ensuring delivery quality, adherence to programme, commercial compliance and safety-first approach.

Review of subcontract packages, supply chain appointments and consultant agreements.

Maintain commercial governance, reporting and contract controls across a portfolio of projects. Protect gross margin, cash flow and entitlement through effective management of contract terms, change control and payment mechanisms.

Lead the administration of construction contracts (NEC, JCT, FIDIC) across a portfolio of multi-million-pound projects, ensuring all contractual notices, early warning, compensation events, and change control processes are handled in accordance with contract timelines.

Manage claims, extensions of time, and final account negotiations with clients and subcontractors.

Ensure in-house engineering teams and supply partners adhere to JSM SHEQ procedures, the Distribution Safety Rules and CDM regulations.

Define construction strategy for 11kV to 400kV projects, from design through to final commissioning, ensuring alignment with engineering policies & procedures.

Interface with pre-construction, design, and commercial teams to ensure integrated delivery.

Promote the sharing of knowledge, lessons learned and best practice across the Operations team.

Carry out thorough pre-contract review and risk analysis on new tenders and framework appointments, flagging key commercial, programme and legal risks to legal team.

Provide input into bids and tenders, ensuring construction methodologies and programmes support a competitive and commercially sound tender submission

Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Ensure appropriate resource planning, structure, and capability are…