Projects Manager / Contracts Manager - Tech

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Wideopen; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Virtual GP

Salary Finance

Choices platform

Extra holiday up to 5 days

MiDeals discounts

Cycle-to-work

Life cover 4x salary

Enhanced pension contributions

Share plan

Job summary

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services is seeking an experienced contracts professional to manage projects end-to-end on site. You will oversee estimating, contract progression, site setup, and liaison with on-site staff while ensuring health and safety compliance and quality control.

The role emphasizes managing changes, resource planning, and implementing best practices for project execution within NEC3 framework and subcontracting processes.

Qualifications

• Project management across projects and site teams.
• Relevant FISS/CSCS certificates held.
• CITB SMSTS qualification confirmed.
• Demonstrated estimating skills for contracts and quotes.
• Knowledge of fence types, electrical fencing, CCTV and access control systems.

Responsibilities

• Project manage contracts
• Estimating and quotes
• Monthly report to MD & Contracts Director for progression/updates
• Site set up and management
• Liaison with site staff
• Prepare method statements and risk assessments
• Site Health & Safety inspections
• Ensure quality control and test inspection docs meet timescales
• Promote material sustainability and waste reduction
• Ensure contractors are competent and licensed; equipment tested and certified
• Monitor installed services for compliance with contract docs
• Record and report defective materials and substandard workmanship
• Assess staffing and resource needs
• Proactively manage scope changes and risks
• Develop best practices for project execution and management

Skills

Project management

FISS/CSCS certs

CITB SMSTS

Estimating skills

Fence types knowledge

Gate automation

Fabrication knowledge

NEC3 contracts

People management

Sub-contracting procedures

Health & Safety qualification

Job description

• To hold relevant FISS/CSCS certificates.
• CITB SMSTS
• To have a good working knowledge of all fence types, Electrical Fencing Systems, CCTV and Access Control Systems
• To have a working knowledge of gate automation
• To have knowledge of fabrication in relation to fences and gates
• To have a good working knowledge of NEC3 contracts
• To be experienced in man management skills
• To have a good working knowledge of sub-contracting procedures and practices
• Health & Safety qualification

Better places, thriving communities.

Essential Competencies

• To be able to project manage contracts
• To hold relevant FISS/CSCS certificates.
• CITB SMSTS
• To be able to demonstrate estimating skills
• To have a good working knowledge of all fence types, Electrical Fencing Systems, CCTV and Access Control Systems
• To have a working knowledge of gate automation
• To have knowledge of fabrication in relation to fences and gates
• To have a good working knowledge of NEC3 contracts
• To be experienced in man management skills
• To have a good working knowledge of sub-contracting procedures and practices
• Health & Safety qualification

Role & Responsibilities

• Project manage contracts
• Estimating and quotes
• Monthly report to the MD & Contracts Director for contract progression / updates
• Manage application for paymentsCustomer contact (new & ongoing)
• Site set up and Management
• Liaison with site staff.
• Method Statements Preparation
• Risk Assessments Preparation
• Site Health & Safety
• Health & Safety Site Inspections
• Ensure Quality Control and Test Inspection documents for the project are completed as per planned timescales
• For promoting good practice of material sustainability (Reuse and/or Recycle) initiatives to reduce waste and save costs
• Ensuring that where applicable, contractor's operatives are competent, qualified and licensed to undertake their work activities correctly and that all plant and equipment used is tested, maintained and certified as specified
• Ensuring all necessary checks to ensure that installed services and equipment complies with the contract documentation
• Ensure Monitor the recording and reporting all defective materials and substandard quality/workmanship standards that do not meet the works specification/s
• Determine and assess the need for additional staff and resources
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify project risks and devise contingency plans.
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.