Contracts Manager Southwest England

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, company car, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your. This full-time role is 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, with an opportunity for flexible working/ part-time hours (shorter working days or fewer days each week).

30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.

Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.

In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

Our Contracts Managers are core to the operation of our business. A key member of our team, reporting to the Construction Manager, you’ll thrive in an enterprising, dynamic, and client focused team. Developing and leading your team of Contract Supervisors, you’ll be responsible for delivery of build programmes with emphasis on health & safety; quality and customer satisfaction.

You’ll love being out on site with your team, meeting customers and when you’re not on site, you’ll be progressing projects, developing new ways to improve, either from your home or office.

You’ll work with the Design and Technical teams, develop build programme, taking full account of current and future pipeline, for each site within the South West region. That will include RAMS, resource planning, requisition of plant and haulage.

You’ll contribute to project meetings and work with other teams to identify any issues and find solutions. You’ll embed our culture across your team and use your leadership skills to develop your team ensuring competence and confidence.

You’re a people person and enjoy developing relationships that bring business success for all. You’ll also understand the importance of achieving deadlines and you’ll support your team in meeting customer deadlines in an efficient way.

Your skills

We’ll train you with your own growth plan so you’re ready for the next steps in your career.

If you have a passion for construction, are happy to lead a team, you get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, this could be the role for you.

You will need to hold CSCS accreditation, SMSTS with a joinery background and extensive timber frame installation experience. You may have previous experience as a site manager with a housebuilding or main contractor.

You can demonstrate your ability to assess scaffold design and build to legislative standards, prepare, present quality management information and develop build programmes.

You’ll also have excellent communication and organisation skills, you can plan your working week, manage time, information, and reporting. You’ll understand the importance of putting the customer first, capable of working in a fast paced environment, adhering to strict deadlines.

You can demonstrate your ability to write clear and concise reports, identifying your teams development needs, while recruiting new team members.

A bit about us

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need Design Technicians across the UK, to help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, company car, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer. This full-time role is 37.5 hours per week.

You’ll have 30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.