Senior Contracts Manager - London or Midlands

Job Description

Company description:J. Murphy & Sons Limited is a leading global, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 that improves lives by delivering world-class infrastructure.Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, we provide better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including Transportation, Water, Power, Natural Resources, and Construction & Property.Headquartered in London, we also have a number of related businessesGround Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Urban Infrastructure; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services.We are specialists in delivering pipelines; design; marine; structural steel; tunnelling; fabrication; bridges and piling; and invest heavily in our substantial holding of plant; equipment and facilities.Murphy employs around 3,500 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, we work as One Murphy by directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success.Theres more to Murphy.Job description:Senior Contracts ManagerCP6 Enabling WorksLondon or (Cannock) Midlands basedRecently recognised as one of the 5th Best Big Company in the UK to work for by Best Companies this is a fantastic time to join J. Murphy & Sons! Take a look at the role outline and if you think you fit the bill, and want to work within a team that rewardsperformance ,drives personal development and offers a great working environment and you have experince in buildings and construction we want to hear from you!J. Murphy & Sons have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Contracts Manager to join the team based out of London. You will provide functional leadership for all construction phase activities within the Project Teams promoting Health, Safety, and Environmentaland construction best practice as well as coordinating construction resources across the projects in close liaison with the Project Managers.What you will be doing

• Co-ordination of constructability input during solutions identification and development phase
• Co-ordination and allocation of construction staff to projects ensuring that appropriate construction and installation staff are appointed to individual projects: based on experience, skills and knowledge
• Build relationships with the Project Managers to ensure that the construction resource pool is an appropriate size, with an appropriate blend of skill-sets, for the projected workload
• Management of construction resources including Labour, Plant and Materials
• Overall management of and review performance of subcontractors
• Ensure construction and installation teams are accountable for their performance against agreed schedules and man-hour budgets
• Responsible for all construction and installation activities are carried out in accordance with Health and Safety Legislation
• Ensure that the duties of the Principal Contractor are discharged in accordance with the CDM Regulations

Who we are looking for

• Successful experience as a Contract / Project Manager ideally from a rail background
• Experience of Planning /Estimating
• Proven ability to lead teams and coach on performance
• Previous experience managing a portfolio of projects at Contracts Manager or Senior Project Manager level.
• Prior experience successfully managing a portfolio of projects as Contracts Manager / Senior Project Manager
• Familiar with working in busy station environments
• Experience of managing station fit out subcontract packages
• Experience of managing Access for All schemes
• Station canopy and platform refurbishment experience