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Contracts Manager

South West, travel required

£73,000 - £85,000 p.a. plus Car/Car Allowance & bonus

  • Are you a pro-active and self-motivated person with a passion for people and leading them to new heights?
  • Do you want to work for a company that are extremely well respected throughout the UK, not just in their sector?
  • Do you have sound knowledge of construction processes, design stages, and construction legislation in the new housing industry?

The Company:

Eileen Richards Recruitment are working with our rapidly growing and particularly highly regarded client who are known Nationwide. They specialise in the construction industry and have a flair for contemporary designs with a comforting and relaxing environment.

Owing to their expansion we are entrusted with finding a driven and effective decision making Contracts Manager for their South West region.

Role & Responsibilities:

  • Ensuring Site Managers are aware of completion target.
  • Monitoring build performance against budget, projection and forecast and identifying reasons for delays, taking action where appropriate.
  • Ensuring product quality and development presentation meet or exceed the company standards.
  • Managing the site construction team, including recruitment, induction, performance appraisals and training & development.
  • Ensuring the accurate and timely production of management reports.
  • Minimising stock on site and keeping WIP to a minimum.
  • Obtaining and retaining a complete up to date knowledge of the market conditions within which the Site Manager operates.
  • Monitoring the use of hired plant, ensuring hire periods are kept to a minimum.
  • Ensuring all technical queries are resolved with the relevant departments.
  • Providing feedback to the Construction Director on practical and/or cost effective solutions.
  • Developing working relationships with chosen suppliers, sub-contractors and plant hire companies ensuring the required costs, quality and time requirements are met.
  • Ensuring all Health & Safety procedures are met within the site and, where appropriate, off-site.
  • Assisting the surveying department in preparing risk assessments, method statements and sub-contractor HSE scoring systems for all trades.
  • Ensuring an awareness of all customer satisfaction surveys and investigating substandard responses in conjunction with the Construction Director.
  • Feeding back information from customers to other departments and implementing and encouraging new systems to maximise efficiencies and in turn profits.
  • Regularly reviewing customer snag sheets at inspection, post-completion lists and ongoing maintenance lists to implement procedures to limit maintenance.
  • Attending meetings that may be necessary in the performance of your duties.
  • Complying with and upholding legislation and company policies and procedures.
  • Undertaking any additional tasks as may reasonably be required from time to time.

About You

  • CSCS Card & Drivers Licence essential.
  • Experience in a Site Manager’s role in the house building industry.
  • Track record of delivering quality projects to budget and on time.
  • Excellent interpersonal & negotiation skills.
  • Verbal and written communication skills, as well as excellent numeracy skills.
  • Strong project management and organisational skills.
  • Computer literate, including Microsoft Office applications.
  • Sound knowledge of construction processes, design stages, construction legislation, all relative to new housing.
  • Knowledge of HASAWA
  • Willing to work outside normal hours at periods of peak workload or as required.
  • Self-motivated and pro-active.
  • Enthusiastic with a good work ethic.
  • Pro-active problem solver.
  • Leads by example.
  • Shows passion, drive and commitment.
  • Effective decision maker.

Additional Benefits:

  • Excellent basic salary plus Car Allowance/Company Car.
  • Up to 40% of basic salary based on targets as a bonus
  • Health Insurance
  • Pension
  • Life Assurance

If you do not receive a response within five working days then unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Eileen Richards Recruitment are experienced within eight different sectors consisting of Accountancy and Finance, Construction, Customer Service & Onsite, Directors & Non-Executive, Human Resources, Office (including PA/EA), Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain & Procurement.

We look forward to helping you in your career in these sectors, so please send a copy of your CV to us. If you know of other people who are currently looking for a new career in these sectors please feel free to refer them to us.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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