PFI FM Contract Manager

July 13, 2022 | Comments Off on PFI FM Contract Manager

Give back to your community, develop your career, and join the Sheffield Schools PFI Kier FM team today as a Contract Manager.

Contract Manager - PFI FM

Location: Based out of our Meadowhead School, Sheffield office with some travel to other offices and sites

Business Area: Kier Places - Facilities Management - Sheffield Schools PFI

Contract & hours: Permanent, full time, Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week

Kier Places are recruiting now for a Contract Manager to join our FM team at Meadowhead School in Sheffield, to support the delivery of a PFI Facilities Management Soft, Hard & Technical Services solution for our prestigious client. This contract covers 4 schools - Meadowhead School, Westfield School, Hinde House School, and Grenoside School.

Key Responsibilities

As a Contract Manager, you'll be an integral member of our operational team working on a PFI contract we hold with Sheffield City Council, managing senior level relationships with key stakeholders to ensure we meet contractual requirements for a team that delivers a variety of Hard and Soft Facilities Management services to our client.

You will be the first point of contact for the client and on-site team, responsible for day to day operational performance of the contracts including statutory compliance, ensuring processes and procedures comply with SLAs and KPIs. As well as managing financial performance of the contracts, ensuring compliance with the budgets, P&Ls and lifecycle plans as well as undertaking audits.

What do we need from you?

To be our Contract Manager, you should have suitable experience in a management position, experience in a PFI contract environment, preferably within a school FM environment. For this role a good understanding of Health and Safety is a must, and an IOSH Managing Safely certificate is preferable.

To really make the most of this role you will have experience with complying with PFI Contracts, have knowledge/responsibility for Statutory Compliance, and responsibility of Profit & Loss (P&L). Ideally, you'll have understanding and experience of Payment Mechanism, preparation and presentation of monthly reports - working knowledge of SFG20 is a bonus.

At Kier, we're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a company car or allowance, private healthcare, a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan).

Some of our other benefits include:

  • New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer

  • Kier's Green Car Scheme

  • 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, as well as 4x Life Assurance as standard, with the option for Partner Life Assurance cover

  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands

Find out more here about the great rewards and benefits we offer our employees.

Be great in a company built on doing good. Join us today as a Contract Manager.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a look here to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk.

Closing Date: 11th August 2022

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

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