Contracts Manager - Rail Civils

Location: North Wales

Salary: 70,000 to £75,000 + Full Package

Leading national construction group with operations through the UK, require a Contracts Manager for their highly successful and extremely busy rail civil engineering business.

The company have secured multiple frameworks across the region delivering station refurbishment, bridges, structure & civil packages direct for the client.

Due to continued growth and an extremely busy order book for 2020/2021, the company require a Contracts Manager to oversee multiple contracts concurrently.

The Contracts Manager is accountable for, but not limited to, the following:

• Managing staff performance in accordance with the company handbook, in conjunction with HR
• Provide Health and safety leadership to your operational delivery teams and promote behavioural safety improvements
• Compliance with all relevant Health, Safety and Environmental legislation, Network Rail Standards and Eurocodes
• Ensure the policies and procedures of the Rail Management System are fully discharged
• Promote and implement sustainable business objectives
• Achieve gross site margin target as set by the Rail Director
• Lead the estimating and planning process for allocated schemes/region
• Ensure sufficient and competent resources are in place for the delivery of assigned contracts and business and project objectives are communicated to your team

• Develop and maintain programmes through the project life cycle and ensure works are delivered against the contract programme
• Lead the project risk management process and ensure effective controls are established to support the safe and timely delivery of the project
• Ensure project opportunities are identified and realised to maintain and improve the commercial project performance
• Promote and maintain effective client/stakeholder relationships to protect and enhance the company’s reputation to assure repeat business
• Uphold the core company values, inspire and encourage the same throughout the team
• Ensure that all mandatory reporting of KPI’s, Close Calls, accidents and incidents are carried out as per company regulations and Network Rail procedures