Contracts Manager - Fire, Safety and Emergency Systems

UBT; Coventry; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A life-safety solutions provider is seeking a Projects Delivery & Contracts Manager in Coventry. This senior leadership role involves ensuring safe, compliant delivery of critical fire and emergency systems projects, leading teams, managing client relationships, and overseeing compliance with industry standards. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in building services and demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills. A competitive benefits package is offered, including holidays and recognition as a valued employee.

Benefits

21 days holidays plus 8 bank

Additional holiday for birthday

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience delivering building-services / M&E / life-safety projects.
• Strong understanding of BS 5839-1 and industry standards.
• Experience commissioning and delivering fire-safety systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing delivery team.
• Ensure projects are delivered safely, compliantly, and profitably.
• Conduct health & safety leadership and site audits.

Skills

Project delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Health & Safety leadership

Client relationship management

Education

5+ years' experience in building services

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

Overview

Location: Coventry

Department: Projects Delivery

Package: Competitive Salary

Lead with Integrity. Deliver with Excellence. Build What Protects Lives.

We are a respected life-safety solutions provider, trusted by clients across the UK for delivering critical fire and emergency-systems projects with absolute compliance and care.

We are now seeking a Projects Delivery & Contracts Manager to lead our Projects Delivery Team and ensure every system we install is safe, compliant and completed to the highest standards — with a robust audit trail from concept to commissioning.

This is a senior leadership role for someone who combines technical excellence, emotional intelligence, and a passion for high-standards in a regulated, mission-critical environment.

If you see process, governance and compliance not as bureaucracy, but as the backbone of life-safety excellence, we want to speak with you.

Your Purpose

Lead and develop a high-performing delivery team, ensuring multiple fire-life-safety projects are delivered safely, compliantly, and profitably, following a proven stage-gate methodology.

You'll bring people together — internal teams, suppliers, subcontractors and clients — to deliver projects that pass every audit, earn client trust, and protect life and property.

What You'll Lead

• Daily project delivery cadence & contractor coordination
• Stage-gate control from pre-construction to handover and aftercare
• Testing, commissioning & technical compliance against BS 5839 and BAFE requirements
• Client, consultant & stakeholder engagement
• Health & Safety leadership, CDM compliance & site audits
• Commercial control, forecasting, variations & final accounts
• Coaching & developing project managers, supervisors & commissioning staff
• You will be the glue that connects planning to execution, and strategy to safe-in-service systems
• You will be hungry for success and want to develop your career.

What Good Looks Like

• Zero-harm safety culture & robust CDM controls
• Fully evidenced, auditable project records
• On-time delivery with controlled variations
• Strong client relationships & repeat business
• Empowered, engaged project teams who grow under your leadership

Who You Are

You bring both competence and character. You are:

• Calm under pressure; a clear thinker in complexity
• Detail-focused and compliance-driven
• A confident communicator — from site to boardroom
• Emotionally intelligent, collaborative and trusted
• Proactive, structured and solutions-focused
• Resilient, adaptable and committed to continuous improvement
• Grounded, self-aware and integrity-led — always doing what's right
• You don't wait to be told — you anticipate, plan, communicate and execute

Requirements

What You Bring

• 5+ years' experience delivering building-services / M&E / life-safety projects
• Strong understanding of BS 5839-1 and industry standards
• Experience commissioning and delivering fire-safety systems
• Familiarity with BAFE SP203-1 / LPS 1014 frameworks (advantageous)
• Competent in Microsoft 365, planning tools and evidence management
• Full UK Driving Licence
• Desirable: SMSTS/SSSTS, IOSH/NEBOSH, CSCS Manager/Professional, Building Safety Act understanding

Benefits

• Holidays: 21 days plus 8 bank - additional for birthday
• Recognised and valued employee - not just a number
• Package: Competitive

This is a rare opportunity to step into a role with genuine responsibility, trust and influence, in an organisation where compliance, excellence and people leadership truly matter.

You'll be supported, listened to and empowered to build capability — not firefight chaos.