Capital Works Contracts Manager
Salary: £52,064 + Excellent Benefits
Location: High Wycombe and surrounding areas – Mobile role with hybrid working options (Traveling across our 16,000 + property portfolio).
Contract: Permanent, Full-time (37 hours per week)
Paradigm Housing Group has a rare newly created opportunity for a Capital Works Contracts Manager, who will be responsible for managing various capital works which will include PAS2030 zero carbon including EWI, cavity refills, ground source heat pumps, insurance and disrepair works along with full roof replacements and other ad-hoc specific projects. With responsibility for managing a team and use of sub-contractors where you'll drive improvements and customer satisfaction that align with our strategic goals. You'll have joint responsibility of a £10 million budget.
We are looking for a conscientious, proactive, capital works contract manager, able to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment and passionate about providing first class customer service. Attention to detail is important in this role to ensure the successful delivery of our services. You will be a good communicator with both internal and external customers as you will be liaising with the customer and delivery team throughout the duration of the works.
You should have the following skills/experience:
- Prior experience of managing large scale property capital works, directly employed labour and sub-contractors with a minimum of 5 years' experience
- Recognized relevant degree-level qualification or equivalent within related disciplines with a minimum of 5 years' experience
- Able to lead, motivate and supervise contractors to achieve targets and high standards of work and customer satisfaction.
- Able to assist with reviewing policy, procedures and strategies in relation to maintenance functions.
- Able to plan and prioritise to ensure the effective use of own time and that of the team in order to deliver of work plans to timetable, often under pressure.
- Have health and safety training to the required (Construction Industry training Board) CITB industry standard.
- Good organisational skills with ability to plan workload, manage time effectively and meet deadlines whilst working under pressure.
- A ‘common sense' attitude and a ‘hands on' approach.
We support flexible working and welcome applications from all sections of the communities we work in, shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification.
Closing date for applications: 10th of January, 2025.
Further information
For the full job description and person specification for the role please see the attachment at the bottom of this page. Should you have any queries about this vacancy please email and we will respond as soon as possible.
As part of our application process, we ask for a covering statement and CV so we can assess your application against our essential and desired criteria as set out in the job description and person specification. Please include in your covering statement how you meet the criteria so we can see how well you match our requirements and give your application the consideration it deserves.
Thank you for your interest in Paradigm Housing Group thus far.
Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified.
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