Contract Manager in Elland

Location: Calder House, Lowfield’s Close, Elland, West Yorkshire, HX5 9DX

Hours: Monday to Thursday 8.00am-5.00pm, Friday 8.00am-4.30pm, 42 hours per week

Salary: Competitive Salary, Dependent on Experience

Role Overview

The Contract Manager will play a key role in ensuring construction projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards. They will be the main point of coordination between the client, project teams, subcontractors, and internal stakeholders, ensuring that every aspect of the contract is planned, managed, and delivered in line with Sewell’s policies, procedures, and cultural approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure the project team has clear roles, responsibilities, and expectations, and that resources and skills are in place to support successful delivery.
• Coach, motivate, and support the team to maintain a positive, accountable, and high‑performing working environment.
• Communicate project requirements clearly and ensure documentation, plans, and expectations are fully understood by all stakeholders.
• Build strong, open, and reliable relationships with clients, end users, and partner organisations through consistent, two‑way communication.
• Act as key account holder for allocated clients, addressing concerns promptly and ensuring needs, expectations, and feedback are understood and acted upon.
• Manage client relationships post‑completion, retaining ownership of all defect management responsibilities and ensuring timely, pragmatic resolution.
• Communicate effectively with all stakeholders, including clients, consultants, subcontractors, and on‑site teams.
• Provide clear direction to site management teams and maintain strong internal communication across project disciplines.
• Produce transparent, accurate reporting to senior leadership, offering clarity on progress, risks, and overall project performance.
• Set clear expectations for the supply chain in partnership with site management teams and ensure alignment with project objectives.
• Manage supply chain performance in line with company procedures, recognising high performance and addressing underperformance appropriately.
• Take responsibility for the presentation of the project, ensuring site boundaries, roads, welfare facilities, and offices meet high standards at all times.
• Support site teams in maintaining a safe, welcoming, and respectful environment, ensuring all operatives and visitors treat the site appropriately.
• Ensure design information is obtained, coordinated, and buildable in accordance with the programme and the agreed Design Delivery Plan (e.g., DDS or BIM MIDP).
• Confirm designs meet the project brief, operational and maintenance requirements, and the needs of all stakeholders, including end users.
• Support the preparation of high‑quality bids and tenders, contributing operational insight into programmes, logistics, phasing, and pre‑start documentation.
• Participate in bid reviews with commercial teams to ensure submissions are accurate, competitive, and well‑coordinated.
• Ensure project success criteria, including Health & Safety, quality, environmental performance, programme, and cost, are achieved through close collaboration with operational and commercial teams.

As well as exhibiting our company behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Customer Focused, a Team Player and Doing the Right Thing, the successful candidates will have the following:

Essential

• Full UK driving licence.
• Valid CITB 5‑day SMSTS certificate.
• Proven experience managing multiple construction projects simultaneously, including coordination of subcontractors.
• Strong leadership skills with experience leading teams.
• Experience using programming tools and web‑based document storage systems.
• Positive, professional attitude.
• Able to work independently and as part of a close‑knit team.
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• Proficient in Microsoft Project, with the ability to produce, update, and manage programmes.
• Proactive approach to delivering high‑quality construction work.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise confidently with senior clients and subcontractors.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads effectively.
• Commitment to learning, development, and progression.
• Flexible approach to working hours (some out‑of‑hours work may be required).
• Working knowledge of current Health & Safety practices.
• Good commercial awareness with the ability to use Excel to price small works up to £100k.

Desirable

• Experience working with public and private sector clients.
• Working towards or holding a relevant professional qualification.
• Experience or training in BIM (Building Information Modelling).
• Qualified to HNC level or above.

Sewell Group is an equal opportunities employer, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services.

As a committed safe employer, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be carried out for the successful candidate of this role.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary, Dependent on Experience
• Annual Bonus opportunity
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 30 days
• Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates
• Auto Enrolment pension
• Staff discounts
• High Street & Retail discount schemes
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Technology Scheme
• Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes

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