Senior Contracts Supervisor in Richmond

Supporting the Team Leader and Manager in the procurement and supervision of various planned improvements and major adaptation and capital works. Our Service North Yorkshire Councils Housing Standards team is responsible for ensuring the Council’s social housing portfolio of circa 8,400 dwellings is maintained to meet all current statutory, regulatory, legislative, and good practice standards.

The team offers effective and efficient delivery of a vast array of contractor delivered works including but not limited to:

• Planned Improvement Programmes to Council Homes
• Major Adaptations such as extensions
• Construction Sub-Contractor Framework
• Contractor DPS Administration
• Various service Level Agreements

The Housing Standards Team are looking for Contract Supervisors to carry out service procurement and contract management of external contracts from our bases in Harrogate, Richmond, or Selby offices. The ideal candidate will have experience in managing a wide range of maintenance contracts, strong health and safety knowledge, familiarity with the new Procurement Act, and the ability to deliver a variety of planned works programmes.

As a Contract Supervisor, you will:

• Take responsibility for your own area of work, ensuring behavioural, quality, and safety standards are adhered to.
• Liaise regularly with tenants and a variety of providers, suppliers, and contractors.
• Seek to always deliver best value, ensuring that work is carried out safely, to the required specification, and complies with all current service standards, codes of practice, and legislation.
• Carry out all aspects of day-to-day contract management, ensuring all contracted obligations are effectively met whilst showing strong leadership.
• Chair and minute contract liaison meetings, ensuring actions are fully documented.
• Manage standard independence adaptation works.
• Manage the delivery of contracted out planned improvement and compliance works.
• Carry out site inspections to verify the quality of workmanship/service delivery and that safe working practices are maintained on our sites.
• Interpret technical recommendations and progress works to ensure compliance.
• Contribute to the development of new contracts, participating fully in the procurement process e.g. drafting detailed specifications and at evaluation stage.

The post holder must keep up to date with all compliance, health, and safety related guidance and actively engage in the development of the service through continuous improvement initiatives. The role involves spoken and written communication, so a confident use of the English language is required. Post holders must have the ability to travel across the housing stock localities if required.

Professional Qualifications

Successful candidates must be working towards or be willing to train to obtain the following qualifications:

• Prince 2 Fundamentals
• Other qualifications will be considered and can be discussed during an informal conversation.
• Additional building or construction related qualifications appropriate to the contracts being managed would be an advantage.

What you will bring

• Knowledge of building regulations and building maintenance or construction.
• Knowledge of procurement and contract management.
• Ability to work in a team.
• Ability to work under pressure to achieve targets and meet deadlines.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Good numeracy skills, ability to interpret data.
• Excellent standard of oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to use initiative.
• Ability to respect and maintain confidentiality.

We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services, we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.