An Opportunity for an Experienced Contracts Manager

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Contracts Manager to join our team in Elvington, York.

Role Overview

Reporting to the Senior Management, you shall be involved from bid stage, through Pre-Construction and will be ultimately responsible for the Construction and Delivery stage of the project. You will be required to manage health, safety and environmental aspects of the project, to plan work, co-ordinate and supervise designers, subcontractors and labour and ensure work is progressing on schedule, to the required standard whilst controlling programme and costs.

Responsibilities

• Produce tender programmes, preliminaries, methodologies and support the Estimator during site visits and tender periods, including identifying value engineering opportunities at bid and pre-construction stages.
• Assist and lead the pre-construction team during the pre-construction phase of projects and with the discharge of relevant planning conditions.
• Lead/chair design team meetings with the client, professional teams and with subcontractors.
• Plan and manage projects during the lead in period, completing construction phase plans, waste management plans and all relevant health and safety paperwork as required.
• Take overall responsibility for the construction and delivery stage of the project, manage health and safety and environmental aspects of the project. Plan, co-ordinate and supervise designers, subcontractors and labour to ensure work is progressing on schedule and in a safe manner. Ensure work is being completed to the required standard whilst controlling programme and costs.
• Produce request for information schedules and ensure information is obtained in adequate time to enable the project to progress as programmed.
• Assist the quantity surveyor by producing labour and plant forecasts for the cost value reports. Produce subcontract procurement schedules as required.
• Attend contracts managers labour and cost value meetings weekly/monthly as required.
• Produce monthly progress reports for site meetings, complete monthly contractors reports and chair meetings as required. Maintain regular client contact even when we are not working with them to seek out future opportunities.
• Support and encourage colleagues and work as a team to achieve objectives. Assist and support the site managers as required, various levels of support required depending on the ability of the site manager, junior site managers require additional support.
• Monitor subcontractor RAMS and site compliance, ensuring Site Managers maintain appropriate daily and weekly health and safety records and that work is completed as per method of working, on time and to a suitable standard.
• Procure any long lead in items/materials prior to the project starting on site.
• Co-ordinate main services and highway adoption procurement with the service/design co-coordinators.
• Introduce customer care manager to the client at handover and assist the customer care manager with any defects until the end of defects period.