Planned Maintenance Contracts Manager

One of our long standing maintenance clients based around the UK have an immediate vacancy for a PLANNED MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS MANAGER covering the Yorkshire region mainly Hull, Sheffield and Barnsley for refits within social housing properties typically on kitchen and bathroom programmes with an annual value of around £1.5m - £2m per year.

Duties will include;

- Contracts Manager to ensure all Site Managers have the relevant experience and ability to manage their allocated projects

- Manage daily running of contracts to complete work to quality, time and cost constraints

- Contracts Manager to ensure Health and Safety policies, procedures, safe working practices and risk assessments are effectively communicated to all site staff and contractors

- Understand and implement safe systems of work

- Mobilise allocated projects

- Understand and manage programme of works

- Contracts Manager to ensure we meet and exceed customer expectations in terms of service, reliability, quality and responsiveness

- Contracts Manager to manage workforce productivity ensuring targets are set and issued before work starts

- Manage workforce quality and adherence to specification

- Conform with Operations Managers audit process

- Communicate with site teams and workforce so they know what is expected of them

- Understand how to influence and act upon poor performance

- Contracts Manager to communicate within Branch regarding costs and progress, explaining any variances

- Manage site administration and records and actively minimise waste on site

- Contracts Manager to understand trades and local labour resources (both direct and subcontract) to meet contract programme’s timescales

- Support recruitment and effectively induct and develop site-based staff, including apprentices

- Ensure all operatives behave in a courteous and polite manner, in line with our Code of Conduct and company approach

- Contracts Manager to ensure all operatives comply with the company expectations regarding PPE and Workwear

- Engage in any investigations and accident reporting process

- Adhere to company vehicle and plant reporting procedures

- Ensure the vehicles are used correctly and not abused

- Contracts Manager to regularly check and audit purchases, time sheets to deter fraudulent behaviours

- Attend and contribute within client meetings as necessary

- Attend and contribute at Branch Meetings

- Proactively ensure that employees remain motivated and engaged with the business

* C&G Advanced/Craft certificate or NVQ L2/3

* SMSTS award

* BCTG Supervisor Development Programme certificate

Interviews will be on a 2-stage process starting later this week.

In return, you will be offered a competitive salary + car allowance of approx. £6.5K per annum OR company car plus fuel card and plus a realistic bonus scheme