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Contract Manager
April 17, 2023 | Comments Off on Contract Manager
Location: Based in the South of the UK with some travel to other offices and sites
Business Area: Kier Places - Housing Maintenance - Repairs contracts
Contract & hours: Permanent, full time - Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week
Kier Places are now recruiting for a Contracts Manager to join our experienced, dynamic & passionate Housing Maintenance team on our portfolio of Repairs & Voids Housing Association contracts, to play an instrumental role to our continued success by taking full responsibility for delivering a high performing repairs and maintenance service. You'll be supporting the delivery to agreed targets & requirements in cost-effective manner, whilst complying with all health & safety, compliance, legislation, standards, policies, and procedures.
Our contracts are primarily Repairs & Voids contracts covering various housing association contracts, and you'll spearhead our ability to win future repeat & business through operating a first-class workstream and obtaining the highest level of customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities
This is your opportunity for the taking today. As a Contracts Manager with Kier, you'll:
- Effectively lead decision-making on supervising, planning, organising, and deploying of resources on work streams including projects, programmed repairs, maintenance, adaptations, FRA and void works
- Be seen as subject matter expert for all Repairs & Maintenance activity associated with Health and Safety compliance, demand and capacity planning, customer satisfaction, field operations and performance management of the workforce.
- Support our continued success by owning performance management; proactively mixing tried & tested and new ways of working to deliver our continuous improvement targets;
- Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders including colleagues, management & leadership, clients, suppliers, subcontractors, and the general public
- Lead, coach and develop supervisors and other colleagues; but just as importantly, be a visible and proactive leader across the business.
You can join us today to make a huge impact in thousands of people's lives, if you - are genuinely motivated to achieve results, have resilience and tact, demonstrable prior experience of working at a similar contract management level in a fast paced social housing maintenance environment.
Alongside relevant qualifications and training (SMSTS, IOSH, CSCS, etc.), you'll should also have background in Domestic Gas, Heating or Electrical Engineering, and/or good knowledge of Compliance relating to Housing Maintenance. You'll need to be a strong user of Excel and have experience with a similar CAFM or work order management system to our in-house system, FSI Concept Evolution.
Who are we?
Kier Housing Maintenance is a home-from-home for people with top housing maintenance and repairs skills. Thousands of homes across the country rely on us to maintain the place they live day-in-day-out. Join us to play a valued role in the success of the wider Kier Places team.
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
Delivering contracts. Creating communities. Developing careers. Join us today as a Contracts Manager.
Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic 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 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 .
Closing Date: 17 May 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
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