Contracts Manager

Leicester, Leicestershire
Cole & Yates Ltd

We are recruiting for a Grounds Maintenance Contracts Manager with experience of providing a grounds maintenance service to a wide range of clients including the local authority, commercial and industrial sectors.

On offer is a salary of up to £40,000 per year plus company car or car allowance and the standard four weeks holiday, pension scheme, laptop and mobile phone.

As the Grounds Maintenance Contracts Manager, you will be:

• Responsible for ensuring all maintenance projects are completed on time, to budget, match contractual specifications, meet with both their financial and quality requirements, and are completed to the Clients satisfaction and in line with priced expectations.
• Offering best in sector customer service, ensuring all projects are delivered professionally and any remedial works are undertaken quickly and to clients satisfaction.
• Ensuring the financial integrity and resource scheduling of all projects by effective resource scheduling and appropriate procurement of goods and services for projects.
• Responsible for the operational team including inductions, appraisals, motivating and building a strong team with excellent attention to detail skills.
• Supporting the senior management and sales teams during pre-tender meetings and throughout the tender process which could include client facing meetings.
• Looking at areas within projects that give scope for margin enhancement. Researching and implementing new ways of working to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Completing site specific risk assessments and planning health and safety for all projects.
• Ensuring the companies quality standards are maintained and that H&S policies and procedures are adhered to on site.
• Responsible for pre-mobilisation site inspection and surveys including risk assessments and site-specific instructions.
• Building a network of reliable sub-contractors and suppliers to call on as required, regularly reviewing their performance and pricing.
• Managing equipment, machinery and vehicle allocation including servicing and repairs.
• Promoting the wider Groups service offering to help grow additional revenue streams.

To be considered as the Grounds Maintenance Contracts Manager you will need:

• Operational or Contracts Management experience from within the grounds maintenance sector.
• To have operationally managed maintenance contracts within the local authority, commercial and industrial sectors.
• Strong leadership and people management skills to be able to develop a hard-working, detail orientated team of maintenance professionals who will deliver the maintenance service with both directly employed and sub-contracted teams.
• Commercial awareness, an understanding of budgets, P&L and new business development.

On offer is a salary of up to £40,000 per year which is negotiable based on experience, plus company car or car allowance and the standard four weeks holiday, pension scheme, laptop and mobile phone.