Contract Manager

Position: Contract Manager (Permanent)
Area Facilities Manager (Contract Manager)

Job type:
Monday to Friday, 8am – 5pm

Location:

Regional, covering London & Surrey

Salary:
Up to £70k + car allowance

The role:

They will have responsibility for managing a mobile team of operatives supporting the portfolio, ensuring the sites are fully resourced to enable optimum performance against key KPI's, the relevant output specification and the academy requirements.

The responsibilities:

* Management, supervision, liaison, and control of the delivery team to ensure compliance with the Company’s policies and procedures, which include but are not limited to Health & Safety, Quality Assurance, Procurement, British Standards, CDM regulations and UK codes of practice.

* Develop and maintain effective, strong internal, supplier and customer relationships to reduce commercial risk and to maximize future business opportunities.

* Develop effective working relationships with sub-contractors to ensure their outputs are managed in accordance with business needs and agreed KPIs / SLAs.

* Provide tendering facilities for materials or extra works projects to suit client requirements, liaising with the appropriate internal departments and service providers.

* Carry out regular site safety audits, report on observations, investigate anomalies, review risk assessments, method statements and COSHH assessments.

* Compliance with the client contract agreement in relation to; child protection, H&S, Sustainability and Security requirements including management of directly employed, specialist service providers, temporary and contract staff.

* Ensure all works delivered are compliant with all applicable statutory standards, legislative requirements, and other regulations / guidance as applicable to the nature of the customers estate.

Candidate specification:

* Excellent communication skills with clear and confident written and verbal communication skills.

* Have the ability to interface and communicate effectively at all levels, liaising with customer representatives to deliver working requirements.

* Customer and client focused with excellent stakeholder management skills.

* Ability to think strategically & commercially and to problem solve.

* High level of self-motivation, organisational ability and drive to meet deadlines

* Experience of hard services management within an academy / education environment

* Knowledge & experience of building services and engineering contractual procedures.

* Proficient in IT systems and software applications.

* Ability to prepare management and technical reports on monthly basis or as required.

* IOSH Managing Safely or recognised H&S qualification, awareness of asbestos, legionella, fire safety regulations, COSHH etc.

* Experience in managing a portfolio of sites via mobile team, preferably within the education environment.

* Role required successful candidate to be able to pass requirements to achieve enhanced DBS clearance

* Have a recognised qualification or suitable experience in Electrical, Mechanical, HVAC or Building Services Engineering (desired, but not essential)