Location & Hours
Location: Birmingham office, covering West Midlands, Gloucestershire, Tewksbury, with occasional support around Leighton Buzzard locations.
Typical working hours: Monday to Friday, 39 hours per week.
About the role
As a Contracts Manager for Novus, you’ll see the impact and improvements your role delivers to your customers and team every day. This varied and challenging role offers you the opportunity to work with and manage a skilled and professional team, secure environment with long‑term contracts and the opportunity to grow and learn. With responsibility for successfully leading a small team including Site Manager/supervisor delivering retrofit works such as solar panels, ventilation measures, insulation, windows, doors & roofing in a social housing setting. Ensuring contracts are completed to programme, with zero defects, within budget and with no risk to health & safety of their operation team, the client, or the public. The successful candidate will be client facing and have extensive knowledge of retrofit & planned works within a social housing environment, including working knowledge of PAS 2030 & 2035 and all related documentation.
Along with utilizing your Contracts Management skills, you’ll also look for ways to add real social value to the communities and customers you work with. Supported by your peers, team, and management to solve problems and trusted to make decisions to grow and develop relationships and revenue.
An outline of your responsibilities as a Contracts Manager:
* Manage the selection and formation of site personnel teams (inc. sub‑contractors) as determined by individual contracts.
* Program and plan works, familiar with construction phase plans.
* Manage site personnel, work activities and resources to meet the requirements of individual contracts.
* Control individual contract progress, focusing completion within time frames and budget, working closely with commercial team.
* Ensure all necessary contract documentation / reports are accurate and produced in a timely manner.
* Overall health & safety responsibility of site ensuring relevant risk assessments, method statements, toolbox talks are all in place.
* Attend monthly client meetings to review performance and future planning of works.
* Working under the Senior Operations Manager you will support on the preparation, processing and selection of estimates, bids and tenders and the development of the procurement programme.
* Assist in the presentation of the contract brief to the client.
What’s in it for you?
* Attractive salary & benefits to suit you.
* 27 days holiday & Bank Holiday – option to buy or sell holidays.
* Company pension scheme – up to 7.5%.
* Company car or car allowance.
* Discounted healthcare scheme, high street & lifestyle discounts including Taste card, a day paid volunteering per year, length of service awards, and more.
About you
As an experienced Contracts Manager with experience of working within a planned and retrofit works contract, including both internal and external works, within a social housing environment. Ideally you will hold SMSTS, First Aid or associated NVQ, but if this has expired, we will support you to renew; it’s the knowledge and skills that go with the qualification that’s essential to us. Knowledge of PAS 2030 & 2035 is essential to the role. Our preferred candidate will be experienced, knowledgeable, self‑starter, focused on delivery and able to communicate well with the team to ensure everyday runs smoothly. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence to travel to sites daily. The role will require a DBS check.
A Little Bit About Us
Novus Property Solutions is a dynamic, award‑winning property maintenance, refurbishment, compliance and decarbonisation specialist with more than 700 colleagues in 19 locations across Great Britain, providing a combination of local knowledge and national strength. We are a social and environmentally responsible family‑owned business with a rich 128‑year heritage, delivering a range of bespoke services and solutions to a wide variety of clients. Our vision is to be the leader in building and maintenance solutions, delivered with compassion and care for the communities in which we operate.
We value people, and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace that enables our people to bring their full selves to work. We understand that for many reasons people rarely meet all criteria laid out in the job advert, so we encourage you to apply for the role even if you do not meet all the criteria or hold all the qualifications. You may be just who we are looking for to join our award‑winning Property Maintenance company in this, or another role.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Management & Manufacturing
Industries
Construction
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