We are excited to offer an excellent opportunity for a Contract Manager to join our team on the prestigious Westminster Contract. This high-profile role involves overseeing the successful delivery of a variety of public realm and infrastructure projects across central London. As ourContract Manager, you will play a key role in managing operational performance, supporting project delivery, and ensuring exceptional client satisfaction. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on impactful schemes in one of the most iconic boroughs in the UK, while contributing to the ongoing success of a long-term, flagship contract.This is a permanent, full time position based in London.
The duties of the Contract Manager role will include:
-Acting as the main point of contact for the Senior Contracts Manager, clients, supervisors, and subcontractors to ensure seamless project delivery from planning to completion.
-Leading the development of construction programmes, phasing plans, and buildability reviews to support project managers.
-Overseeing site activities to ensure high-quality work, timely completion, and adherence to contract drawings and specifications.
-Managing site teams and subcontractors effectively, while monitoring contract costs, allowances, and financial performance.
-Preparing and maintaining Health and Safety documentation, including method statements, risk assessments, and incident reporting.
-Coordinating and implementing contract changes in collaboration with the quantity surveyor and project manager.
-Supporting stakeholder and community engagement, ensuring clear communication and responsiveness to local concerns.
-Driving performance improvements, support team development, and assist in programme planning alongside the Programme Manager.
What skills and experience do you need?
We’re looking for a confident and professional Contract Manager with extensive experience in the construction and highways industry, and a strong working knowledge of NEC contracts. You will be customer-focused, with a passion for delivering excellent service and operating to high standards. You’ll thrive in a collaborative environment, ensuring all stakeholders are engaged and aligned throughout the project lifecycle. You should be educated to at least GCSE level (or equivalent) and ideally hold a construction-related qualification such as a Degree, NVQ Level 4/5, or HNC/HND. Possession of a CSCS Black Managers Card or an equivalent professional qualification is essential, as is a full UK driving licence. A safety management qualification such as SMSTS or IOSH Managing Safely would be an advantage.
What benefits will you receive?
As ourContract Manager,we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, life assurance, healthcare, a car allowance, a company bonus, enhanced maternity pay, opportunities for internal and external training and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines, and support from our in-house mental health first aiders.
A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Westminster Division
FM Conway is a business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. As a family business the heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.
The FM Conway Term Maintenance division have been working in partnership with Westminster council for a number of years to deliver a variety of high-quality construction and maintenance services encompassing a wide variety of assets such as carriageways, footways, highways, green environments and streetscapes, which has seen a dramatic transformation of the prestigious streets of London. We are extremely proud of the work we have carried out to make London safer and more efficient to the public and this role will play a key part in delivering our vision.
So if you would like to Join our Family as our Contract Manager then please click ‘apply’ today.
Closing Date: 07/08/2025
FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy
At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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