Contracts Manager in Workington

Location: Workington office, covering sites around West Cumbria, Carlisle and surrounding areas. Typically working Monday to Friday 39 hours.

As a Contracts Manager for Novus, you will see the impact and improvements your role delivers to your customers and team every day – taking your job satisfaction to whole new levels. This varied and challenging role offers you the opportunity to work with and manage a skilled and professional team, a secure environment with long-term contracts, and the opportunity to grow and learn.

With responsibility for successfully leading a small team of Site Managers/Contract Liaison Officers delivering voids and retrofit refurbishment works in Social Housing, you will ensure contracts are completed to programme, with zero defects, within budget, and with no risk to Health & Safety of the operation team, the client, or the public. Along with utilising your Contracts Management skills, you’ll also be looking for ways to add real social value to the communities and customers you work with.

Supported by your peers, team, and management to solve problems, you will be trusted to make decisions to grow and develop relationships and revenue. You will be managing multiple contracts and site locations, with a week that typically ranges from site visits to office-based support for the administration that goes with running a number of successful contracts.

The successful candidate will be client-facing and have extensive knowledge of voids and retrofit, particularly solar panel installation within a Social Housing environment.

What’s in it for you?

• Attractive salary & benefits to suit you
• 27 Days Hols & BH – option to buy or sell holidays
• Company pension scheme – up to 7.5%
• Discounted Healthcare Scheme
• High street & lifestyle discounts including Taste card
• A day paid volunteering per year
• Length of service awards
• And more…

An outline of your responsibility as a Contracts Manager:

• Manage the selection and formation of site personnel teams (including sub-contractors) as determined by individual contracts.
• Manage site personnel, work activities, and resources to meet the requirements of individual contracts.
• Control individual contract progress, focusing on completion within time frames and budget.
• Ensure all necessary contract documentation/reports are accurate and produced on time.
• Attend monthly client meetings to review performance and future planning of works.
• Support the preparation, processing, and selection of estimates, bids, and tenders under the Operations Manager.
• Assist in the presentation of the contract brief to the client.

About You:

As an experienced Contracts Manager, you will have experience working within voids or planned works contracts covering internal or external works within a social housing environment. Ideally, you will hold SMSTS and 3-day First Aid; if this has expired, we will support you to renew. The knowledge and skills that go with the qualification are essential to us.

Our preferred candidate will be experienced, knowledgeable, a self-starter focused on delivery, and able to communicate well with the team to ensure everything runs smoothly. You will need to hold a Full UK driving licence to travel to sites daily. This role is subject to a DBS check.

A little bit about us:

Novus Property Solutions is a dynamic, award-winning property maintenance, refurbishment, compliance, and decarbonisation specialist with more than 700 colleagues in 19 locations across Great Britain, providing a combination of local knowledge and national strength. We are a social and environmentally responsible family-owned business with a rich 126-year heritage, delivering a range of bespoke services and solutions to a wide variety of clients.

Our vision is to be the leader in building and maintenance solutions, delivered with compassion and care for the communities in which we operate. At Novus Property Solutions, we value people and are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace that enables our people to bring their full selves to work. We understand that for many reasons, people very rarely meet all the criteria laid out in the job advert, so we encourage you to apply for the role even if you do not meet all the criteria or hold all the qualifications. You may be just who we are looking for to join our award-winning Property Maintenance company in this or another role.