Contracts Manager

Writech; Mullingar; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Writech Group is seeking a Contracts Manager based at our Mullingar HQ to oversee planning, resourcing and progress reporting for construction projects. You will liaise with engineering, Quality, Safety, Manufacturing and HR, guiding a fast-paced team including Project Leads, Administrators and Supervisors.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years’ PM experience on multiple projects, a Project Management qualification, and strong English communication skills.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience as a Project Manager over multiple projects.
• Degree or Diploma in Project Management or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Skilled communicator with the ability to collaborate with key areas of the business and customers.
• Ability to thrive under pressure with tight project deadlines and maintain process discipline.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Forecast, plan and allocate resources for projects with site teams.
• Coordinate tendering through commissioning with Commercial, Design & Service.
• Act as operations liaison to resolve project issues promptly.
• Monitor quality processes across projects to ensure standards.
• Lead and track performance of direct reports and contractors.
• Onboard subcontractors and negotiate terms and costs.
• Schedule workload to meet program KPIs and manage teams.
• Maintain contract programs and progress reporting in in-house systems.

Skills

Project management

Planning & scheduling

Stakeholder communication

Leadership

Fluent English

Education

Degree or Diploma in Project Management

Job description

The Writech Group are an internationally recognised leader in Fire Protection Systems. We are internationally approved to Design, Manufacture, Install, Service & Commission to all standards & have experience in Fire Sprinkler Protection, Foam enhanced Fire Protection, Gas Protection, Firewater Mist Protection, Insert Gas Protection & Special Hazard Fire Protection.

It is a very exciting time to join the Writech Group! With the opening of our Design & Innovation Centre earlier this year we are growing our Engineering team.

The Role:

This Contracts Manager role is a critical role for the business. Responsible for ensuring accurate planning, resourcing, labour hire and progress reporting of our construction projects. This role is based out of our Mullingar Headquarters.

This role will also be a key liaison for our engineering team and other key functions of the business (Quality, Safety, Manufacturing/ Assembly, Finance and HR). This is a fast-paced environment, and the role will suit a candidate who has outstanding planning and organisational skills. This role will develop and change as a result of changing business needs, this role will suit a highly ambitious individual with an interest in operations/ project management processes. This role will have the Design & Project leads, Project Administrator and Installation Supervisors reporting directly to them.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Working with project leads & engineers and site-based teams, accurately forecasting, and executing resources on projects
• Liaise with Commercial, Design & Service departments from tendering through to commissioning stage of projectsto ensure smooth handover of contract to all relevant internal teams. Review on a weekly basis that all contract progress is completed andin line with budgets/project expectations.
• Point of contact for Operations and identify the issues they have, caused by Projects team and work with them to resolve.
• Champion and assist monitoring of Quality processes for the projects.
• Lead and track performance of all direct reports.
• Manage all external sub-contractors and monitor quality/costs associated with them.
• Manage onboarding of new subcontractor/hires, negotiate terms and conditions.
• Continue the management of subcontractors/hires, monitoring the quality or work/costs associated with them.
• Manage all external contract hire.
• Schedule and monitor all direct reports workload to ensure they are all following the program, their own KPIs and managing their own teams accordingly.
• Manage the contract programs and progress reporting on inhouse systems.

Ideal Candidate:

• 3+ years’ experience as a Project Manager over multiple projects
• Degree or Diploma in Project Management or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Skilled communicator with a demonstrated ability to collaborate with key areas of the business and customers.
• Ability to thrive under pressure, working with tight project deadlines, whilst maintaining adherence to process disciplines.
• Must be responsible, personable, detail oriented, and self-motivated with solid organisation and time management skills and a strong focus on planning.
• Fluent in English is a requirement for this role.