Rail Snr Contracts Manager

City, Cardiff
Barrett Contract Services Ltd

The Senior Contract Manager required for maternity cover for a national landscaping contractor in the rail and infrastructure division of the business. This role is to cover the whole of Wales area.

We are looking for someone to do two days a week through August for handover and then full time from September to February.

Main purpose of role:

The Snr contracts manager has overall responsibility of the project lifecycle, with a key focus on client management and building client networks. Ensuring full compliance on sites, including health and safety, and environmental requirements. Strong understanding of managing finances and budgets, and promoting an innovative approach to project works. Managing a team of contract managers and planners to ensure high quality works are being completed and managing issues effectively.

Main Duties:

• Stakeholder management: Building a client base, creating new client relationship whilst also growing existing relationships with clients to increase workflow for the business. Responsible for managing any complex client issues and complaints and ensuring communication needs are met between contract managers and clients.
• Financial Management: Overall responsibility of finances on jobs, producing costings, analysing gaps and producing finance reports and budgets for directors monthly. Working closely with Commercial Director to monitor cost flows and forecasting upcoming costs. Negotiating costs with suppliers and field teams to fit within budgets.
• People management: Lead and Manage a team of Contract Managers and Planning Managers to ensure projects are delegated fairly and being managed efficiently and within deadlines. Facilitating the support for the contract managers and planners to ensure successful in their roles and embed collaborative workplace.
• Talent management: Acting as a mentor for the team, supporting development and setting objectives to progress individuals in their role, improving team skillset. Actively developing succession planning for the team and supporting goals to be achieved.
• Project management: Overseeing multiple projects ranging in scale, producing technical writing/methodology reports of projects to clients and division.
• Compliance, health and safety: Overall responsibility of ensuring full compliance on all sites, monitoring the health and safety across the team, including red alerts, near misses, and hazards. Working closely with HSQE to maintain self and teams awareness in health and safety, creating positive interventions to improve site quality and safety, with a keen focus on environmental factors.
• Business development: Acting as link between Business Development and the team, working closely to price jobs on large contracts and manage business, supporting with tendering for work.
• Resourcing: Overall responsibility for project allocation, utilising skillset and knowledge within the team, with consideration for team development. Managing workload for team, and adapting works where required to fit business needs. Support contract managers in sourcing field teams for project works, and where required, managing any subcontracting of work.
• Asset management: Understanding the requirements of projects and sourcing equipment where required, responsible for putting together business cases for any new equipment requirements.
• Decision making: Overall responsibility and sign off on all project works in team, ensuring the management of each project is being managed well and within financial constraints.

• Reporting: Provide regular reporting to both directors and the wider team, monitoring project progress, finances, project reports, compliance, and health and safety.
• Project scope: Overseeing regional projects in excess of 6m across the year.

Essential Knowledge and Skills:

• 5+ years working within the rail industry or similar.
• 5+ years management experience within a similar industry.
• Industry knowledge of arboriculture and/or rail
• Working with different stakeholders
• Full UK driving licence – travel required.

Desirable Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience working in a manual role within the industry or similar.
• Holds COSS and SMSTS qualification, however training will be provided.
• HSQE Qualifications such as NEBOSH, IOSH

You will be employed PAYE or CIS self employed direct by Barrett Contract Services Ltd. there are no umbrella companies involved and no fees on you receiving your money.

BCS is a well established construction agency that has been running for the past 19 years.

For more information contact Steve Barrett