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Contracts Manager - Construction, Colchester
Client: BuildMyTalent
Location: Colchester, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Views: 1
Posted: 04.06.2025
Expiry Date: 19.07.2025
Job Description:
Job Title: Contracts Manager
Location: Swindon
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time
We are looking for a dedicated, experienced, and motivated person to join our Swindon operations team. Managing construction projects, you will lead Beard project teams, communicating business and project objectives to all members of the team and ensure company procedures are followed.
The Company
Our business began in 1892. Since then, we’ve developed our crafts to realize any vision. We deliver exceptional outcomes on a wide variety of design & build, new-build, restoration & refurbishment projects, from turnkey maintenance services to complex schemes up to £30m.
Beard was founded on a simple idea – to build ambitious spaces. Today, that’s paired with the promise of prompt and faultless delivery. We understand how these concepts are brought to life by people living well and working with purpose. Through learning, performing, and connecting. People are at the heart of all we do. But serving them fully requires courage to challenge, think differently, and act differently.
Job Purpose
To manage a selection of construction projects with the aim of achieving profitable, prompt, and faultless delivery. The contracts manager is responsible for leading the Beard project team, communicating business and project objectives to all members of the team, and ensuring company procedures are followed.
Responsibilities include:
* Set high personal safety and environmental standards and ensure procedures are robustly applied.
* Build good working rapport with customers, consultants, and key members of the supply chain.
* Plan all aspects of the project, identify challenges, and suggest solutions.
* Manage programmes, developing, tracking, and acting where necessary.
* Manage the design process and consultant team to meet budget and timescales.
* Promote company vision, values, and a culture of continuous improvement.
* Set clear goals and objectives for each team member, including personal development.
* Empower managers to make appropriate decisions.
* Have profit and loss responsibility, working with the project QS to meet targets.
* Record and report delays or disruptions and work towards resolving issues.
Experience required:
* 3 years’ experience as a contracts manager, or 5 years as a project manager.
* Experience in D&B, framework, two-stage, and negotiated contracts. Preconstruction knowledge and tendering experience.
Desired skills:
* Strong commercial acumen
* Ability to bring objective views and unify parties for successful outcomes
* Building strong teams for collaborative success
* Coaching and developing team members
Benefits include discretionary annual bonus, paid sick leave (after qualifying period), pension contributions (up to 7.5%), cash plan, salary extras platform, and training and development opportunities.
If interested, we look forward to your application. By applying, you agree to share your information with Beard Construction via BuildMyTalent.
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