Contracts Manager

Metropolitan Housing Trust; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing organization is seeking a Contracts Manager for their Fire Safety Team. The role involves overseeing compliance with Fire Safety Regulations, managing budgets, and leading a small team. The ideal candidate will have strong negotiation skills and experience in contract administration. This position offers a competitive salary and various benefits, including hybrid working options and opportunities for career progression.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays

2 volunteering days per year

Enhanced pension with matched contributions

Life assurance cover 3 x your salary

Hybrid Working

Health cash plan scheme

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience managing significant budgets and complex programmes.
• Knowledge of contract administration (JCT / NEC / TPC).
• Strong understanding of Fire Safety Regulations.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of Fire Safety Regulations and manage external contractors.
• Monitor contract budgets and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Coordinate contract management meetings and manage contract administration.

Skills

Negotiating

Relationship Management

Budget Management

Education

Technical Competence in Compliance Legislation

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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The role

Title: Contracts Manager - Fire Safety

Salary: £52,962 - £55,750

Location: Waterfront House, Beeston

Permanent

About Us

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live.With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living.

This role

As the Contracts Manager in the Fire Safety Team, you will lead the delivery of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations and Block Inspection Program (Non Technical Checks). You will create and manage a programme of works with external contractors to deliver Fire Safety Inspection Regimes with MTVH's portfolio.

You will be responsible for monitoring contract budgets and ensuring services are managed effectively, providing value for money and delivering the agreed services. You will work closely with appointed consultants who will provide support relating to statutory and regulatory compliance and technical expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsibility for contractual budget monitoring, seeking to achieve value for money throughout the life of each contract under management.
• Ensure contracts are fully compliant with all relevant statutory, regulatory and corporate requirements.
• Provide business plans to the organisation on a capital works program.
• Ensure staff performance is formally reviewed in accordance with MTVH policy and that regular one to ones are held with your staff.
• Ensure payments are made according to the terms of the contract and following MTVH financial regulations.
• Review quality assurance inspection reports to ensure that works have been undertaken to the required standard and in accordance with the contract specification.
• Chair and co-ordinate contract management meetings and manage all aspects of the Contract Administration function.
• Deal with all enquiries and complaints in accordance with the timescales and procedures for such issues. Identify any changes and other improvements to reduce the likelihood of a repeat.
• Assist with the procurement and commercial evaluation of contracts. Provide feedback on the contract specification, making recommendations on where the standard specification can be improved.
• Review terms and conditions of leases and tenancy agreements, to ensure terms and conditions are uniformed to reflect management repair liability and charging processes (MBOA).
• Effectively manage the operation delivery of Fire Safety Inspections to meet the requirements of the Fire Safety Regulations.
• Leading a small team to deliver successful inspection regimes and follow on works.
• Work with contractors to meet challenging and realistic targets to achieve all aspects of project delivery, including productivity, performance and KPI
• Challenge poor service in line with KPIs, and to ensure good customer service to front line staff and residents and escalate issues as appropriate to the contractors contract manager/s, and MTVHs Contract Manager
• Proactively request, collate and analyse information from front line staff, contractors and consultants to assist in the preparation of reports detailing programmes of work and performance (including KPIs). Ensure the data is accurate.

What you'll need to succeed

• Familiarity and knowledge of the regulatory framework governing compliance; repairs; sustainability or planned workstreams that you will be responsible for
• Ability to run complex programmes and manage significant budgets effectively.
• Knowledge and experience of contract administration e.g. JCT / NEC / TPC and running multiple projects at once.
• Excellent negotiating skills and experience of developing and managing sound client relationships.
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Outlook and Excel.
• Technical competence or training in the workstream/s you will be managing including knowledge of relevant compliance legislation
• Personal competencies as described in job description
• Experience of building and maintaining relationships with contractors, stakeholders and customers to continually improve services.
• Experience managing or involvement procurement processes.
• Strong understanding of the Fire Safety Regulations

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if it's the ideal job for you, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

Interview date

TBC
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What's in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional 'Beliefs day' once a year to have an extra a day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit - interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively 'Serving people better every day' to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other's wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we're doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.