Field Based Contracts Manager
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Location: Essex ideally based in Chelmsford
Working Hours: Monday – Friday
Salary: £35000 to £40000 per annum depending on experience.
Benefits:
- Company vehicle with fuel card
- Phone and laptop
- Sage benefits inc. retail discount vouchers, wellbeing & GP helplines
- Pension
- 29 days holidays increasing to 33 days annual leave inc. bank holidays
- Friendly and professional teams
- A varied role within established company
- Private health cover after probationary period.
Offering a varied and exciting field-based role with a variety of company benefits, Portico GB Ltd are looking for an experienced and flexible new build window Contracts Manager to work around the Essex area covering sites in Essex East Anglia and Home Counties.
Portico GB Ltd is a leading subcontractor to the new build industry based in Woolpit near Bury St Edmunds who supply and install windows, doors, conservatories, and wardrobes.
The Opportunity – Field Based Contracts Manager:
As a Field based Contracts Manager, you will be looking after 10-15 new build construction sites in the Essex, East Anglian and Home Counties regions. Travelling daily between sites, you'll ensure the window installation teams are working efficiently, safely and completing quality work.
A full driving licence is essential with the ability to continually travel.
Responsibilities – Field Based Contacts Manager:
- Complete regular site checks to confirm that sufficient up to date tools are being used
- Ensure efficient, safe and productive installations on site
- Deal with site requests, site surveys, attend site start up meetings, and minute and report those meetings
- Keep up to date with all replacement parts orders and ensure plots are commissioned to the highest standard
- Liaise with our customers on site
- Check and monitor quality of our work by way of weekly site inspection reports
- Attend periodical management meetings with pre-prepared reports
- Maintain a positive, polite environment on site
- Ensure fitting teams are wearing company clothing at all working periods
- Ensure that productivity is maximised by way of using the resources of the business (vehicles, Labour) in the most efficient and economical manner
- Ensure that labour is kept up to date with all Health and Safety matters
- Work closely with the Operations Manager and Installations Manager in the day to day running of the installation teams
- Assist in training fitters in key areas
- Attend site on our fitters first visit to assist in contract start up
- Ensure that vehicles are kept clean and tidy
Person Specification – Field Based Contracts Manager:
- You'll need to be a CSCS registered Supervisor or higher
- Full valid UK driving licence is required
- Great people management skills
- Experience of managing a team, preferably within a New Build, construction/installation environment
- A recognised health and safety qualification is preferrable
- Sufficiently computer literate to operate Word and email
- A strong understanding of all aspects of the contracting process
- Knowledge and awareness of Health & Safety standards
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written
- Well organised and proactive
- Ability to maintain a professional manner when on-site or in an office environment