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Steeplejack Contracts Manager
Hybrid - UK wide travel & based at our Nottinghamshire Office
Competitive base salary + bonus + car allowance + Company benefits
Horizon
Horizon is an established specialist contractor operating within the steeplejack, work at height, and height safety and lightning protection sectors, delivering complex access, maintenance, inspection, and remedial works across the UK powered by Vadella.
The Role
The successful applicant will have day-to-day responsibility for the contractual and operational management of steeplejack and height safety activities. The role includes ensuring the safe, compliant, and profitable delivery of contracts, while maintaining the highest standards of health, safety, quality, and client service.
The Steeplejack Contracts Manager will report daily to the Deputy Managing Director and wider senior leadership team and will take a leading role in driving operational performance, workforce management, and regulatory compliance across all steeplejack and work-at-height based projects.
Contracts & Operations
- Overall responsibility for the delivery of all steeplejack and height safety operational activities
- Ensure all contracts are delivered to agreed budgets, programmes, and specifications
- Manage projects from award through to completion and final account
- Coordinate labour, supervision, plant, access systems, and specialist equipment
- Liaise with and manage sub-contractors and suppliers
Client Management
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- Liaise with clients via email, telephone, and in person
- Attend progress meetings, site inspections, and client meetings across the UK
- Act as a key point of contact for resolving contractual and operational matters
Health, Safety, Environment & Quality
- Ensure the company’s HSE obligations are fully discharged
- Ensure safe working practices for company employees, clients, and third parties
- Create appropriately developed RAMS, access plans, rescue plans, and lift plans
- Deliver toolbox talks and ensure the annual TBT programme is adhered to
- Undertake site-based safety and environmental audits
- Ensure safety alerts and hazard information are effectively communicated to the workforce
- Maintain responsibility for environmental aspects and impacts associated with works undertaken
- Supply appropriate reporting to senior management on Health, Safety, Environmental, and Quality performance, at a cadence to be agreed
People Management
- Review and monitor the competency and capability of site personnel
- Support training, development, and progression of supervisors and operatives
- Promote a strong safety-led and professional working culture
Essential
What you will bring:
- Extensive proven operational and management experience within the steeplejack, rope access, or height safety industry
- Current or previous experience in a contracts management, operations management, or senior supervisory role
- Demonstrable experience managing multi-site, work-at-height projects
- Experience leading, coaching, and developing specialist engineers
- Proven ability to manage, motivate, and control operational personnel
- Technically competent and confident engaging with clients, principal contractors, and internal teams
- Full UK driving licence essential
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Personal Attributes
- Strong ability to plan workloads, labour resources, and programmes
- Capable of managing multiple deadlines and competing priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong understanding of HSE documentation, compliance, and reporting
- High level of IT competency, including MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 / cloud
What’s In It For You
- Competitive base salary plus bonus
- Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
- Pension scheme
- Perkbox benefits platform
- Clear career progression path as the business and Group continue to grow
About Vadella
Vadella Group is a PE-backed compliance services business operating across the TICC market - fire safety, water hygiene, asbestos, HVAC and health and safety consulting. We operate through a portfolio of specialist operating companies, each with their own identity and client base, supported by a Group infrastructure that enables them to grow. We are in a period of significant and deliberate growth, expanding our portfolio through acquisition and scaling our people and operational infrastructure accordingly. It is an exciting time to be joining the Group team.
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