Contract Manager

Contracts Manager Location: Preston office, covering sites around Lancashire and surrounding areas- Typically working Monday to Friday 39 hours As a Contracts Manager for Novus, you will get to 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 delivering Voids and planned refurbishment works to Social Housing properties. Ensuring contracts are completed to programme, with zero defects, within budget and with no risk to Health & Safety of their operation team, the client, or the public. The successful candidate will be client facing and have extensive knowledge of Refurbishments within a Tenanted Social Housing environment. 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 and trusted to make decisions to grow and develop relationships and revenue. You will be managing multiple contracts and site locations, typically your week will be varied ranging from site visits and office based to support the administration that goes with running a number of successful contracts. The programs of works will spread across a number of our clients meaning you may have teams supporting works across Lancashire, therefore you must be comfortable with regional travel to those locations. 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 * We also offer a; 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 (inc. 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 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 * Working under the Operations Manager you will 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 the experience of working on Social Housing planned works contracts including Kitchen and Bathroom refits, remodeling and repaint works. Ideally you will hold SMSTS, but if this has expired, we will support you to renew, it’s the knowledge and skills that goes with the qualification that’s essential to us. Our preferred candidate will be experienced, knowledgeable, be 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. 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 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