Contracts Manager

Hertfordshire  |  Up to £65000.00 per annum  |  Permanent Full Time  |  Ref: BBBH2289_1571930006

Contracts Manager required to work for a principle contractor who manage the construction of buildings, primarily for private sector clients in London and the home Counties. With the majority of clients being property developers.

The busines is broken into 3 areas; Sales and business development / Operations / Support services.

The contracts manager is the person who oversees the operations side of the business from the point where a tender is agreed through to project completion and aftercare. In that respect they form one of the pillars of the company and so it is essential that the selected candidate is both technically capable and a good cultural fit.

Role Responsibilities:

• Recruiting and overseeing performance of site managers on all ongoing projects.
• Programming projects and overall responsibility for contract delivery.
• Responsible for the management and performance of all in house trades and supply chain.
• Reporting of project performance to directors.
• Responsibility for health and safety on site.
• Responsible for quality of work on site.
• Overseeing planning of in house labour movements.
• Budgeting resources and implementing forward planning.
• Overseeing the finishing and aftercare team.
• Taking weekly and monthly site meetings with clients where required.
• Overseeing commercial team to ensure projects are profitable.

Essential Skills & Requirements:

·Exceptional knowledge of construction methods and materials.

• Ability to produce working project programmes.
• Ability to chair site meetings, with clients, site & finance teams.
• Very good man management skills.
• Good IT skills including ability to work with Microsoft office suite and either smart sheets or MS Project.
• Knowledge of and experience working with the JCT form of contract.
• SMSTS qualified.
• Full clean driving license.