A fantastic opportunity is available for an enthusiastic and proactive Assistant Voids Manager with a social housing background to join a well-established, dynamic and growing business.
The ideal candidate will have some experience of running projects of various sizes with construction experience in the public sector and of running council works. You must have excellent organisational and communication skills, be able to manage a varied workload and work well in a fast paced and reactive environment. You will need to work well unsupervised, be highly methodical and be effective in managing your own time. Some travel and flexibility in working hours will be required as this will also managing projects on-site.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
Appoint and monitor appropriate labour and site management specific to the project type in conjunction with Void Manager and project team
Maintaining budgetary and cost controls aligned with labour spend
Produce comprehensive project programs, site meeting minutes, contractor's reports
Attend and contribute to client and contracts meetings with Void Manager
Support in Collating, managing and sign off of snagging works completed by labour
Record variations from site and liaise with the QS team
Have a positive approach and be vigilant for site health and safety.
Promote commercial awareness for on-site projects
Liaise with supply chain team to ensure compliance and effective site set up
assist in the delivery of the account to agreed program of works and KPI's
Assisting Voids Manager with surveying of scope requirements
Assisting void manager with client meetings
Assisting Void Manager with allocation and management of supervisors and trades
To have regular meetings with the Void Manager and to report on and discuss workload, project difficulties and opportunities
Required skills and experience
Excellent time keeping and ability to manage own workload and work to deadlines
Friendly, proactive and have a high attention to detail
Strong communication skills across various clients, social housing teams and contractors
Must have good IT skills - Microsoft skills including Excel and Project, knowledge of NHF schedule of rates
Ideally be SMSTS qualified, or qualified by experience
Proven track record of delivering successful refurbishment programmes whilst maintaining budget oversight, costs controls and managing deadlines working on contracts between Doncaster, Leicester and Nottingham
Full UK Driving Licence
Specific experience in void property refurbishment
This is a full-time role (37.5 hours) based in our Nottingham office but our projects span out across the Midlands and South Yorkshire. This position benefits from 28 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day for each complete year of service up to a maximum of 31 days. It also receives paid leave while the business is closed over the festive period.
We offer our Concorde Culture programme which provides many perks such as Feast Fridays lunches, regular nights out, birthday treats, membership to Westfield Health and much more.
Salary is competitive and negotiable depending on experience. We are also offering a car allowance, laptop, tablet and mobile phone. There are lots of opportunities for training and development and we pride ourselves on our culture and values.
To Apply:
Please follow the instructions on the right side of the page.
For any general enquiries on our vacancies, please email us at: recruitment@concordebgw.com.
Please note: we can only accept UK based applications, unfortunately we are unable to sponsor right to work visas.
Direct applications only please. Due to the number of applications we receive, we will only reach out to those who have progressed onto shortlist.
Concorde BGW Ltd is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace - we work with a wide range of businesses and individuals that come from all walks of life and so do we. We employ great people from a variety of backgrounds that share our passion and live our core company values of Pride, Teamwork, Innovation, Clarity and Integrity. We celebrate diversity and individuality so regardless of your race, age, religion, gender or any characteristic that makes you, you, if you share our values and our enthusiasm for growing our businesses, you will find a home at Concorde BGW Ltd.