🏗️ Contracts Manager | Cut & Carve / RC Frame
📍 Oxford Street, Central London
💷 Up to £600 per day
⏱️ Immediate or short-notice start
📋 Contract position | Site-based
We are recruiting an experienced Contracts Manager to oversee several technically complex structural projects across London.
The flagship scheme requires highly specialised experience involving:
• A large and complex basement
• A temporary works package valued at approximately £3 million
• Jacking and supporting an existing building
• Construction of a 12-storey reinforced concrete frame above the retained structure
• Complex cut-and-carve and structural alteration works
• Critical load-transfer, propping, sequencing and temporary-stability requirements
This is a senior but operationally hands-on position. The successful candidate will oversee three to four live projects while providing detailed technical and delivery leadership on the flagship Central London scheme.
Key responsibilities:
• Lead Project Managers, Site Managers, engineers, supervisors and subcontractors
• Take overall responsibility for programme, resourcing, safety, quality, cost and risk
• Oversee complex basement, RC frame, temporary works and structural alteration packages
• Review construction methodologies, temporary works proposals and sequencing strategies
• Manage building-jacking operations and the transition from temporary to permanent works
• Interrogate structural drawings, technical information and AutoCAD outputs
• Coordinate design, engineering, commercial, planning and supply-chain teams
• Identify delivery risks early and implement effective mitigation or recovery measures
• Maintain strong relationships with clients, consultants and project stakeholders
Essential experience:
• At least 10 years’ experience at Contracts Manager level or above
• Substantial cut-and-carve and structural-alterations experience
• Proven delivery of large, technically complex basement projects
• Strong RC frame and reinforced-concrete construction expertise
• Detailed knowledge of temporary works, retained structures, propping and load transfer
• Experience delivering projects or structural packages valued at £5 million or more
• Proven responsibility for multiple live projects simultaneously
• Experience leading Project Managers and multidisciplinary site teams
• An engineering-led and operationally hands-on approach
• Strong structural drawing and AutoCAD literacy
• A valid Temporary Works qualification and appropriate CSCS card
• Availability immediately or at short notice
• Ability to work regularly across Central London
Direct experience jacking an existing building and constructing a multi-storey RC frame above the retained structure will be a major advantage.
This opportunity is best suited to someone from a specialist structural, RC frame, basement, demolition, enabling works or heavy-refurbishment contractor.
General new-build RC frame, fit-out or shell-and-core experience alone will not be sufficient. Candidates must demonstrate genuine technical depth in complex structural construction, major temporary works and retained-building projects.
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