Trainee Contracts Manager

TN United Kingdom; Leominster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and growing timber frame construction company as a Trainee Contracts Manager. This role offers the opportunity to develop your career in operations, overseeing multiple live projects and collaborating with teams both on-site and in the office. You will manage operatives and subcontractors, ensuring quality and compliance with health and safety standards. If you have a background in timber frame installation or project coordination and are eager to take the next step in your career, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in Timber Frame erection is ideal.
• Ability to manage and motivate operatives on-site.

Responsibilities

• Oversee timber frame installations and manage paperwork.
• Attend site meetings and ensure compliance with HSE standards.

Skills

Timber Frame

Construction

Effective Communication

Project Coordination

Site Supervision

Tools

CSCS Card

Job description

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Role: Trainee Contracts Manager

Location: Herefordshire

Sector: Timber Frame Construction

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 + Vehicle & Package

Are you an experienced carpenter with a good working knowledge of timber frame installation? Would you enjoy working both in the office and on-site in a diverse role?

A well-established business in the Timber Frame market is recruiting for a Trainee Contracts Manager to oversee timber frame installations, manage paperwork, contractual documents, lift plans, and logistical requirements.

This role is ideal for an experienced Timber Frame erector or someone with a project coordination background looking to develop a career in operations within an expanding timber frame company. The successful candidate will oversee 3-5 live projects, managing operatives and subcontractors, attending site meetings, and ensuring progress and variations are properly documented and communicated.

This is a great opportunity to start your contracts management career with a growing, close-knit business.

The Role:

• Visit 3-5 sites regularly within your area of responsibility
• Induct operatives on-site and ensure all documentation and requirements are met
• Provide clear direction to subcontractors and monitor quality
• Attend site meetings, document progress and variations, and distribute to relevant parties
• Ensure work complies with HSE standards, including scaffold, slab, and crane lift plans
• Maintain quality standards to ensure site handover meets contract specifications
• Collaborate with wider teams through regular office visits

About You:

• Ideally some experience in Timber Frame erection
• Ability to manage and motivate operatives on-site
• Effective communication skills with operatives, clients, and colleagues
• Ability to produce clear reports, identifying labor, delivery, and plant requirements, as well as program variances
• Ability to read working drawings

Diversity, Equality & Inclusion: This employer is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age.

If you are interested in this role, please contact Tommy Winstone at ARV Solutions on 01179592008 or click 'Apply' to submit your CV. Key Skills: Timber Frame, Construction, Install, Supervisor, Contracts, Multi-Site, CSCS Card, Manufacturer, Contractor