Contracts Manager (Passive Fire Protection)

Novus Property Solutions; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading property maintenance company is seeking a Contracts Manager specializing in passive fire protection to oversee works in a social housing setting. The role involves managing site teams, ensuring compliance with Health & Safety regulations, and maintaining high quality standards. Candidates should have experience in planned works and ideally hold relevant certifications such as SMSTS. A Full UK driving licence is necessary for site travel, and strong communication skills are essential for client engagement and team collaboration.

Benefits

27 Days Holiday & 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

Day paid volunteering per year

Length of service awards

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in social housing environments.
• Familiarity with FIRAS standards preferred.
• Full UK driving licence is required.

Responsibilities

• Manage site personnel and resources effectively.
• Ensure contract documentation is accurate.
• Attend monthly client meetings.

Skills

Experience in passive fire protection

Project management

Strong communication skills

Health & Safety knowledge

Education

SMSTS or equivalent qualifications

First Aid certification

Tools

Construction phase plans

Job description

Contracts Manager (Passive fire protection)

Location: Birmingham office, covering West Midlands, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and occasionally around Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire. Typically working Monday to Friday 39 hours.

Overview

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 Passive fire protection works including fire door installs and maintenance, fire stopping, loft compartmentation in a communal Social Housing setting – Assisted living, care homes, flats. 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 Passive fire protection planned Works within a Social Housing environment including working at FIRAS accredited standard.

Social Value

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
• 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.
• Programming and planning works, familiar with Construction phase plans.
• 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, working closely with commercial team.
• Ensure all necessary contract documentation / reports are accurate and produced in a timely manner.
• Overall Health & Safety responsibility of site ensuring relevant risk assessments, method statements, toolbox talks are all in place.
• Attend monthly client meetings to review performance and future planning of works.
• Reporting to the Operations Manager and 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 experience of working within a planned and retrofit works contract including both internal and external works, within a social housing environment. Ideally you will hold SMSTS, First Aid 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. IFE Level 2 qualified preferred but not essential along with experience of working to FIRAS standards. 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. The role will require 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.

We Value People

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 that many candidates may not 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’re looking for to join our award‑winning Property Maintenance company in this, or another role.