One of our long standing specialist concrete clients based in the Southampton region are now seeking a full time Contracts Manager due to a healthy order book throughout 2026. Role You will lead the delivery of live contracts from start to finish, making sure projects run smoothly, meet agreed timescales, and stay within budget. * Take ownership over your own continual professional development and support others with theirs. * Embrace the company ethos, including values, strategy, and goals. * Successfully deliver all agreed objectives and tasks assigned to you. * Prioritise your workload to hit deadlines whilst keeping a high level of attention to detail. * Challenge and develop all processes and procedures, ensuring continuous improvement is at the heart of what we do. * Ensure that all quality issues under your control are managed and resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner. * Ensure that you uphold the health and safety standards. * Communicate effectively with the business and external stakeholders to develop a strong and professional relationship. * Be aware of your team financial budgets and support the Operations Manager in achieving them. Responsibilities All responsibilities need to be delivered in line with the relevant procedure manuals for contracts within your team. * Overall responsibility for the management of day to day activities of all live contracts. * Survey all sites for access requirements and mobile crane positions and produce all required lifting plans. * Agree and set final contracts programmes with customers on all assigned contracts. * Manage all customer queries regarding our site activities. * Effectively plan and deploy sub-contractor labour to facilitate the programme requirements and communicate to all relevant stakeholders. * Manage all Subcontractor activities on site. * Monitor and report on overall site productivity for all contracts. * Monitoring and logging all relevant site paperwork. * Ensure the overall company programme accurately reflects the required labour for all contracts. * Monitoring Health & Safety and quality, reporting and investigation for your contracts. * Attend external customer / contract meeting as required. * Attend and contribute to internal operational meetings and deliver agreed actions Preferred Experience & Qualifications HNC/D or equivalent in a related discipline 3-years of experience in a similar role CPCS/NPORS Appointed Person for Crane Lifting Operations preferred CPCS/NPORS Crane Supervisor Required SMSTS or SSSTS CSCS Managers Card Competent with Microsoft Office 365 suite (particularly Outlook, Word, Excel) On offer Vehicle – Car Allowance / Company Vehicle Provided. Team building – Christmas party, Social & charity events. Recognition – Company profit share bonus scheme