Contracts Manager

FM Conway Ltd; London Borough of Hillingdon; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company is looking for a Contracts Manager for their Street Lighting division in London. This role involves managing high-profile contracts, ensuring safety and quality standards while maximizing productivity and client satisfaction. Applicants should have relevant experience and qualifications in street lighting or highways infrastructure, with competitive benefits and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Life assurance

Healthcare

Car allowance

Company bonus

Internal and external training opportunities

Shopping discounts through Rewarding Great People platform

24-hour advice lines for health and well-being

Qualifications

• Proven experience in street lighting or highways infrastructure as a Contracts Manager.
• Strong commercial understanding.
• Ability to manage teams effectively.

Responsibilities

• Plan and program street lighting/electrical works ensuring high safety standards.
• Maintain accreditation and documentation as per industry standards.
• Execute site works efficiently while liaising with clients and authorities.

Skills

Commercial understanding

Knowledge of street lighting disciplines

Education

Emergency first aid certificate

SMSTS qualification

NRSWA for supervisors qualification

ECS or CSCS qualifications

G39 certification

HEA/HERS supervisor qualification

IOSH or H&S qualification

Tools

CMS / remote working systems

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An exciting opportunity for an experienced Contracts Manager to join FM Conway’s growing Street Lighting division, delivering high-profile contracts across London. This role is ideal for an operationally minded professional who thrives on driving performance, managing teams on the ground, and ensuring works are delivered efficiently, safely, and to a high standard. You will play a key part in maximising productivity, maintaining commercial control, and ensuring client satisfaction. This is a permanent, full-time position based in London.

The duties of a Contracts Manager will include:

• Contributing to the success of the business through the implementation of street lighting/ electrical works in a professional and efficient manner ensuring the highest level of health, safety, and quality.
• Planning and programming of works, including pre-contract site visits to determine project requirements.
• Ensuring competency portfolios and other documentation is maintained to the required industry standard and to retain accreditation to the relevant industrial bodies.
• Ensuring Toolbox Talks, Safety Alerts, Daily Briefings, Safety Inspections, Customer Satisfactions, Supply Chain and Near Miss reporting’s are completed as per company requirements.
• Maintaining standards that meet CDM regulations and within customer restrictions & timelines.
• Ensuring that all site works are executed in a time and cost-efficient manner whilst ensuring regular liaison with clients, the general public, authorities, and sub-contractors / suppliers; to include ensuring that the correct licences/ permits are in place and valid for the works being undertaken.
• Ensuring that plant and materials are ordered to support the works programme as well as ensuring all plant is fit for purpose and maintained to required standards.
  
  

What skills and experience do you need?

You will have proven experience in street lighting or highways infrastructure as a Contracts Manager, ideally with experience on public sector contracts. You will have strong commercial understanding and knowledge of street lighting disciplines, as well as experience with CMS / remote working systems, inspection and testing and safe isolation procedures. It is essential for you to have your emergency first aid certificate and a SMSTS qualification. Ideally you will also have a NRSWA for supervisors qualification, ECS or CSCS, G39 certification, HEA/HERS supervisor and IOSH or H&S qualification. This role will involve travel to other FM Conway and customer locations, and therefore you must be able to drive and possess a full UK driving licence.

What benefits will you receive?

As our Contracts Manager we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, life assurance, healthcare, a car allowance, a company bonus, opportunities for internal and external training and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines, and support from our in-house mental health first aiders.

A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Street Lighting Division

FM Conway is a family run business with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity, and Excellence. As a family business the heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.

Our Lighting division have over 60 years of experience working on high-profile projects in Central London. From design and installation through to refurbishment and maintenance we understand what it takes to deliver lighting systems that combine cost and energy efficiency as well as optimum performance. At FM Conway we offer comprehensive end-to-end support, helping customers with project inception and development, all the way through to implementation and project delivery. Some of our iconic Lighting projects include the Illuminated River project which saw the business install lighting on London, Southwark, Cannon Street Railway and Millennium Bridges. We have also worked on Westminster City Council Sturgeon Columns and SureCharge, our Electric Vehicle charging solutions. This is an exciting time to be joining the business as we are at the forefront of deploying new technologies, asset management and small cell technology practices into the lighting sector.

So, if you would like to Join our Family as our Contracts Manager then please click ‘apply’ today.

Closing Date: 03/07/2025

FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities, and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy

At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

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  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Construction

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