Contracts Manager (Passive fire protection) in Birmingham

Location: Birmingham office, covering West Midlands, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and occasionally around Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire. 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. You will be responsible for successfully leading a small team of Site Managers delivering Passive fire protection works including fire door installs and maintenance, fire stopping, loft compartmentation in a communal Social Housing setting - Assisted living, care homes, flats. Ensuring 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. The successful candidate will be client facing and have extensive knowledge of Passive fire protection planned works within a Social Housing environment including working at FIRAS accredited standard.

Along with utilising your Contracts Management skills, you will 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 and trusted to make decisions to grow and develop relationships and revenue.

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%
• Company Car or Car Allowance
• 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.
• Programming and planning works, familiar with Construction phase plans.
• 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, working closely with the commercial team.
• Ensure all necessary contract documentation/reports are accurate and produced in a timely manner.
• Overall Health & Safety responsibility of site ensuring relevant risk assessments, method statements, tool box talks are all in place.
• Attend monthly client meetings to review performance and future planning of works.
• Reporting to the Operations Manager, support on the preparation, processing and selection of estimates, bids and tenders and the development of the procurement programme.
• Assist in the presentation of the contract brief to the client.

About You:

As an experienced Contracts Manager, you will have experience of working within a planned and retrofit works contract including both internal and external works, within a social housing environment. Ideally, you will hold SMSTS, First Aid or associated NVQ, but if this has expired, we will support you to renew; it’s the knowledge and skills that go with the qualification that are essential to us. IFE Level 2 qualified preferred but not essential along with experience of working to FIRAS standards. Our preferred candidate will be experienced, knowledgeable, a self-starter who is focused on delivery and able to communicate well with the team to ensure everyday runs smoothly. You will need to hold a Full UK driving licence to travel to sites daily. The role will require 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 128-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 we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace that enables our people to bring their full selves to work. We understand for many reasons that 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.