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 see the impact and improvements your role delivers to your customers and team every day, enhancing job satisfaction. This varied and challenging role offers the opportunity to manage a skilled and professional team in a secure environment with long-term contracts, as well as opportunities for growth and learning. You will be responsible for leading a small team of Site Managers delivering Voids and Planned works in Social Housing, ensuring contracts are completed on schedule, with zero defects, within budget, and without risk to the Health & Safety of the operations team, the client, or the public.
Utilising your Contracts Management skills, you will seek ways to add real social value to the communities and customers you work with. You will be supported by your peers, team, and management to solve problems and trusted to make decisions that grow relationships and revenue. Managing multiple contracts and site locations, your week will typically vary between site visits and office-based administration to support the successful running of contracts. The successful candidate will be client-facing and have extensive knowledge of Voids and Planned refurbishments within a Social Housing environment.
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%.
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 responsibilities as a Contracts Manager:
Manage the selection and formation of site personnel teams (including 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 on 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.
Support the Operations Manager in the preparation, processing, and selection of estimates, bids, 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 working within a planned works contract in a social housing environment. Ideally, you will hold an SMSTS qualification; if this has expired, we will support you to renew it. Your knowledge and skills are essential to us. Our preferred candidate will be experienced, knowledgeable, a self-starter focused on delivery, and able to communicate well with the team to ensure daily operations run 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 20 locations across Great Britain. We provide a combination of local knowledge and national strength. We are a socially 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 are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace that enables our people to bring their full selves to work. We understand that people 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.
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Preston office, covering sites around Lancashire and surrounding areas - 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, enhancing job satisfaction. This varied and challenging role offers the opportunity to manage a skilled and professional team in a secure environment with long-term contracts, as well as opportunities for growth and learning. You will be responsible for leading a small team of Site Managers delivering Voids and Planned works in Social Housing, ensuring contracts are completed on schedule, with zero defects, within budget, and without risk to the Health & Safety of the operations team, the client, or the public.
Utilising your Contracts Management skills, you will seek ways to add real social value to the communities and customers you work with. You will be supported by your peers, team, and management to solve problems and trusted to make decisions that grow relationships and revenue. Managing multiple contracts and site locations, your week will typically vary between site visits and office-based administration to support the successful running of contracts. The successful candidate will be client-facing and have extensive knowledge of Voids and Planned refurbishments within a Social Housing environment.
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%.
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 responsibilities as a Contracts Manager:
Manage the selection and formation of site personnel teams (including 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 on 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.
Support the Operations Manager in the preparation, processing, and selection of estimates, bids, 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 working within a planned works contract in a social housing environment. Ideally, you will hold an SMSTS qualification; if this has expired, we will support you to renew it. Your knowledge and skills are essential to us. Our preferred candidate will be experienced, knowledgeable, a self-starter focused on delivery, and able to communicate well with the team to ensure daily operations run 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 20 locations across Great Britain. We provide a combination of local knowledge and national strength. We are a socially 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 are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace that enables our people to bring their full selves to work. We understand that people 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.
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