Contract Manager in Paisley

Consilium Contracting Services Ltd is a multi-trade and electrical contractor providing 24/7 reactive and planned maintenance services, primarily within the public sector and social housing environments across Scotland. Established in 2014, the company is headquartered in Paisley, Renfrewshire, with a regional office in Rosyth, Fife, and a sub office in Selkirk, Borders, enabling broad geographical coverage.

Consilium works closely with Housing Associations, Local Authorities, and private homeowners to deliver essential repairs, maintenance, void property services, compliance, and refurbishment works. The company prioritizes integrity, care, and professionalism, focusing on building long-term relationships and understanding the communities it serves. Applicants can expect to join a values-led organization that combines technical expertise with a strong commitment to quality and respect.

Role Description

As a Contract Manager, you will work on our Social Housing R&M/Voids frameworks and also deliver ad-hoc projects, whilst manging the multi-trade team of operatives.

Your responsibilities include ensuring all frameworks and ad hoc projects adhere to the required standards of health and safety, quality, and commercial performance, while effectively managing each customer relationships and ensuring we maintain required KPIs on all the frameworks (KPI attainment is an essential part of the role, as is managing the financial budget for each framework/ad hoc project). Managing and controlling the operatives/resources in your remit is critical, being able to manage day to day resources and movements is essential.

You will be given an expected Sales budget for each framework that you are required to maintain monthly and deliver, ensuring all resources aligned within each framework budget are accurately managed, changes in budget require you to ensure you act to maintain the profit for that framework.

You will also be expected to build on existing relationships with our customers, identify opportunities for additional work streams and projects, manage the workforce, solve problems, and maintain a productive and positive team environment on site

Qualifications

• Must be from a trade background
• Experience in contract management or project management within social housing, or public sector.
• Strong skills in programming/delivering jobs, HSE, Commercial management incl budgeting, cost control, and financial reporting.
• Knowledge of compliance, health and safety regulations, and industry standards essential.
• Ability to lead and coordinate the multi-disciplinary resources is essential.
• Excellent communication, and problem solving abilities, with attention to strong organisational skills.
• Proficiency in using the full Microsoft office suite and job management systems (simPRO is Consilium portal), and interact with customer own portals.
• MUST have experience working with housing associations, local authorities, or public sector.