Contracts Manager - Surfacing

Role: Road Surfacing Contracts Manager

Duration: Permanent

Location: Cambridge based office (some home and site working)

Salary: 70-75k

Start: September time after interview process

As an experienced Contracts Manager with a strong surfacing background, you will ensure that the contracts are carried out on time and to a high quality standards. This role will be managing contracts on surfacing schemes within retail premesis around the UK. Based on site, in the Cambridge office or working from home, our client are looking for someone who can run their own diary, build jobs, manage multiple sites/supervisors. This is a great role for a strong surfacing contractor with an excellent reputation and comes with a very good benefits package.

Requirements

For this role it is essential that you carry the following professional qualifications as a minimum;

SMSTS
First Aid
CSCS Card
Driving LicenseFor this role it is essential that you hold the skills & experience below;

Experience managing multiple surfacing schemes at once
Previous experience as a Contracts Manager on surfacing schemes / highways surfacing - or a Senior Superivsor looking for a step up

Duties

Managing multiple surfacing contracts to achieve financial, safety, quality, and environmental targets
Pre-contract planning and liaison with estimators
Leading and delegating duties to engineering and contract staff
Maintaining a working knowledge of current contract forms, acts, and legislation
Accepting, approving, and issuing contracts and subcontracts
Ensuring company's Health and Safety and other IMS procedures are complied with planning, programming, and resourcing contracts
Liaising, negotiating, and meeting with clients, consulting engineers, surveyors, and sub-contractors and others
Assisting with the preparation of quality bids, PQQs, and other presentations as required
Providing technical, contractual, and legal advice
Providing accurate information for regional monthly contract appraisals and other reports as required
Budgeting, monitoring, and control of contract finances
Identifying, evaluating, and managing claims and variations
Compiling applications for payment and agreeing final accounts
Motivating, coaching, and providing guidance to staff and operatives
Interviewing, selection, recruitment, discipline, and dismissal of staff
Maintaining photographic library, publicity material, contract press releases, etc
Improving and promoting company profile and activities

This is a Permanent position - please apply online to be considered
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed