Senior Contracts Manager: Retaining Walls & Groundworks

Bimplus; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Upfront Recruitment is seeking a Contracts Manager for Cannock to lead groundworks projects, including retaining walls and erosion control. The role requires managing multiple projects from scope and costing through to programming, delivery, and close-out, with senior stakeholder interaction.

You will work closely with the Technical Director and Operations Manager, ensuring projects are programmed, resourced and controlled while maintaining health and safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Contracts Manager, Senior Contracts Manager or similar project leadership position.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and coordinating subcontractors and operational teams.
• A background in groundworks, civil engineering or closely related specialist construction works.
• Strong understanding of project programming, cost control, commercial risk and project documentation.
• Excellent client and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to lead meetings and communicate at senior level.
• A structured approach to H&S, QA, document control and project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Managing multiple groundworks, retaining wall, erosion control and hydroseeding projects from planning through to completion.
• Leading weekly operations meetings, coordinating project start dates, staffing requirements, logistics and potential programme clashes.
• Acting as a key point of contact for clients, subcontractors, engineers and internal teams, ensuring project requirements and deliverables are clearly understood.
• Managing project programmes, costs and additional expenditure, identifying commercial risks and ensuring additional costs are captured.
• Working with technical, estimating and operations teams on early scope interpretation and costing before works commence.
• Ensuring project document control, QA processes and weekly site paperwork are maintained and completed.
• Leading project update and lessons-learned meetings, reporting project performance, successes and areas for improvement to senior leadership.

Skills

Contract management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Project programming

Cost control

Quality assurance

Job description

Upfront Recruitment is seeking a Contracts Manager for Cannock to lead groundworks projects, including retaining walls and erosion control. The role requires managing multiple projects from scope and costing through to programming, delivery, and close-out, with senior stakeholder interaction.

You will work closely with the Technical Director and Operations Manager, ensuring projects are programmed, resourced and controlled while maintaining health and safety and quality standards.