Contracts Manager

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading property maintenance company is seeking a Contracts Manager to oversee a skilled team delivering refurbishment projects in social housing. The role requires strong contracts management expertise, budgeting skills, and the ability to ensure health and safety compliance across sites. Ideal candidates should possess extensive knowledge of planned works and hold relevant qualifications. In return, the company offers an attractive salary, benefits, and the opportunity for career growth within a dynamic team environment.

Benefits

Attractive salary & benefits

27 Days Holidays & Bank Holidays

Option to buy or sell holidays

Company pension scheme

Up to 7.5% Company Car or Car Allowance

Discounted Healthcare Scheme

Paid volunteering day per year

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of Planned Works within Social Housing environment.
• Experience working within a planned works contract including external/internal works.
• Ability to communicate effectively with the team for smooth operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage personnel teams and subcontractors for contracts.
• Control contract progress and ensure timely completion within budget.
• Attend meetings to review performance and future planning.

Skills

Contracts management expertise

Team leadership

Client-facing skills

Budget management

Health & Safety knowledge

Communication skills

Education

SMSTS or associated NVQ (support for renewal offered)

Job description

Contracts Manager Location: Yeovil office, covering 100 mile radius(Excluding Devon & Cornwall)

Typically working Monday to Friday 39 hours.

As a Contracts Manager for Novus, you’ll 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 Planned Kitchen, Bathrooms, Roofing, Windows and Door refurbishment and solar works in a Social Housing setting.

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 Planned Works within Social Housing environment.

Working 50/50 between site and office. 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.

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
• Discounted Healthcare Scheme, High street & lifestyle discounts including Taste card, a day paid volunteering per year, length of service awards, and more.

Responsibilities

• 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 Senior 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 within a planned works contract including both internal and external works, within a social housing environment. Ideally you will hold SMSTS or associated NVQ, 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 along with a DBS check.

About Novus Property Solutions

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 128‑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.

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