Job Overview
The role: Contracts Manager – Fit out. Location: Leeds – alternative UK locations also available.
Salary: up to £75,000 + car/car allowance and package – negotiated depending on experience.
Employment: Permanent role.
Qualifications & Experience
The ideal candidate will have experience working on design and build and refurbishment projects, be friendly, engaging and helpful, with strong leadership skills and commercial experience. The successful candidate will oversee projects ranging in value between £500k and £5-6m. Projects include internal refurbs of offices, full external works, cladding, small new builds, and extensions. Wide range of experience is required as projects often involve educational clients, universities, schools, hospitals, police, and court services.
Duties & Responsibilities
* Produce site logistics plans, methodologies, programmes and other documentation.
* Attend tender interviews where required.
* Provide delivery expertise and advise for tenders.
* Advise on timescales to meet required dates and manage this process to ensure that timescales are either met or revised appropriately, keeping the client/sales team properly informed.
* Advise on buildability and design.
* Request site-based project managers or site managers as appropriate to projects.
* Liaise with the H&S manager and enforce health and safety policies and good practices.
* Develop and complete the construction programme.
* Manage the project team to ensure that pre‑construction activities are completed in accordance with the programme.
* Liaise with the client and their team, including the landlord’s representative.
* Monitor and manage health and safety on the project.
* Oversee the project team to deliver the project successfully and to programme, including all aspects of project and site management, client liaison, design, procurement, quantity surveying, furniture, and any other disciplines related to the project.
* Review the programme/critical path against progress and report to the management team.
* Assist the site manager or site‑based project manager with problems or issues as they arise.
* Report any significant problems or issues on the project to the line manager as soon as they arise and work proactively to resolve them.
* Review monthly CVRs with Quantity Surveyors.
* Work with the quantity surveyor to agree the procurement plan and supplier selection.
* Liaise with the quantity surveyor to ensure that procurement meets the programme.
* Report any requirements for variations to the quantity surveyor so that costs can be agreed before undertaking works.
* Issue emergency variations instructions to sub‑contractors if essential to meet the programme, copying in the quantity surveyor.
* Report to the company management team on progress and key issues.
* Understand the profit of all projects and have access to CVRs if information is required from the line manager.
Benefits
* Competitive salary
* Company car or allowance
* Bonus scheme
* Pension
* Health care & more
Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.
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