Trainee / Assistant Contracts Manager

Location: Medway
Job Type: Permanent Full Time
Salary: GBP 20000 – 25000 Annual Salary

Established in 1998 and has a large customer base. Based in Medway, the increasing demand on our client’s business from referrals alone is helping them to grow. Having employed additional administrators to help with the large number of quotation requests the company receives from existing Trade, Retail and commercial customers.

Due to growth, our client is currently in need of a Trainee / Assistant Contracts Manager who genuinely cares about customer satisfaction and delivering to expectations.

This is a chance to join a small team in an industry-leading firm, joining us through a period of expansion offering an outstanding opportunity for career progression.

The successful candidate would have the following key Characteristics Skills:

• Good Organisational skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Be presentable, confident, and professional
• Self-motivated, proactive and ambitious
• Some understanding of construction
• Commercially aware with good financial understanding
• Be able to work along and in part of a team
• Must have a full UK Driving Licence
• Customer focused
• Good it skills

The successful candidate would be working closely with the existing Managers and Company Directors carrying out the following:

• Responsible for managing several projects at one time.
• Responsible for dealing with the customer keeping them up-to-date of progress.
• Plan the delivery of the project.
• Identify, produce and manage all risk assessments for the project.
• Manage and implement all Health and Safety procedures for each project producing regular reports, as required.
• Control and monitor the use of all resources including sub-contractors to maximise efficiency and minimise cost.
• Undertake procurement functions for all aspects of the project and liaise with office staff, where required.
• Report progress on all projects under your responsibility to the commercial director regularly.
• Manage and monitor the contract progress, assess and report any changes that may affect timescale or project cost.
• Ensure all necessary contract documentation/reports are in place.
• Understand budgets, valuations and costs whilst recognising contractual requirements.
• Manage Project Site Manager to ensure project is running to time.
• Ensure Quality is maintained to the highest standard throughout every project.

If you’re the ideal candidate that our client is looking for, then send in your CV today by clicking the APPLY button below.

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