I am currently recruiting on behalf a National Maintenance and Painting contractor based near Southampton.

They specialise within social housing, general maintenance and void property works within construction. With a huge turnover of well over £200 million and increasing growth means they have stability and looking to continue to build from their busy and well established south coast office.

Projects vary form social housing to commercial builds on a number of lengthy frameworks, project are usually based from Dorchester to Brighton in an arc up to Oxfordshire.

Job Role;

• To manage financial and technical aspects of contracts including procurement, invoicing and payment to minimise costs & maximise value.
• Ensure tenders are prepared by measuring and calculating rates for estimating for review with local Commercial team and Branch Manager.
• To ensure all work issued has labour targets to return agreed margins.
• Monitor the weekly and monthly cost information and accurately produce monthly valuations.
• To develop and maintain relationships with the workforce, customers, subcontractors and suppliers.

Specific Responsibilities;

• Measure and prepare cost estimates for contracts and tenders.
• Check contract/tender documents and highlight risks.
• Understand the Health & Safety requirements of tenders and contracts.
• Assist the Branch in developing specific method statements.
• Develop and maintain several specialist subcontract and supplier contacts, sufficient to avoid reliance on any one company.
• Ensure production targets are issued and contract CVR’s are set.
• Ensure contracts have targets at detail and summary levels, from operative to contract manager.
• Ensure the quality of subcontract orders are sufficient to avoid situations leading to potential claims against the Company.
• Ensure all contracts have measure in place to track and record financial progress.
• Monitor all ongoing contract costs against those detailed in the original tender.
• Professional industry Standard or equivalent.
• Pitman Excel – Advanced Users.
• CSCS card – Manager / Professionally qualified person.
• Completion of iHASCO defined mandatory training modules.

In return;

You will be entitled to a competitive salary package which includes an attractive car allowance, fuel card and pension scheme coupled with genuine career prospects for the right candidate.