Contracts Manager

Within the Construction environment, think about buying materials, managing big projects, ensuring health and safety and customer service. At any given time, you’ll find us working on some circa 400 developments in both towns and rural areas across the UK, and every one poses unique challenges. Some are from scratch on brownfield sites; others see us adapting existing buildings, like old factories or disused hospitals.

We need people who can bring us fresh ideas and imagination on one hand, and the commercial ability to manage people, budgets and costs on the other. It is testament to the professionalism of our construction teams that for an unprecedented thirteenth year, Site Managers have won more NHBC Pride in the Job Awards than any other housebuilder.

Reporting to the Construction Director, responsible for overseeing the development of sites from land acquisition to completion, ensuring that Safety, Health and Environmental standards are maintained, and Programme, Quality and Cost targets are achieved within agreed budgets and timescales through the effective management of Site Managers and subcontractors. To be responsible for the delivery of the divisional construction execution plan.

You will be expected to:

• Manage and monitor Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) performance where required to ensure compliance with legal obligations and requirements detailed in the Company’s SHE Management system.
• Support in the provision of suitable tender requirements for subcontractors and suppliers, monitor their performance and feedback to Commercial department.
• Ensure adequate and suitable resources are available for an effective site start.
• Monitor performance against construction programme to ensure targets are met and completions are on time.  Progress chasing as required.  Provide dates through Sales/Build meetings to ensure legal completions are as forecasted.
• Control additional costs for non-productive and prelim expenditure to ensure Group guidelines and take part in cost control meetings.
• Liaise with all departments to support the Site Manager’s role and ensure information, materials and contractors are available.
• Monitor each stage of construction as work proceeds to ensure a quality product.
• Liaise with purchasers to ensure we provide a suitable level of service after completion.
• Support the Site Manager in ensuring that on-site Construction teams are fully resourced and well-directed, with clear guidelines to their own job responsibilities, and are provided with full support in achieving these, in terms of communication, training and development, and the organisation of the site’s workload.
• Provide a professional interface with purchasers, external contacts, contractors, etc.
• Assist the Construction Director in all matters relating to the efficient performance of the Construction Department.
• Set and achieve build programme targets, as advised by the Construction Director.
• Lead and develop the site management teams.

Be a point of contact for recruitment of the site management team and support appropriate personnel through the interview process.