Operations Manager - Regional Contractor
• Up to £110,000 + Full Package
• Hertfordshire
• January 2025
• Permanent
A successful principal contractor has a great opportunity for an Operations Manager with the remit to oversee their £60m business to ensure its future commercial success.
The business focuses on JCT and traditional refurbishment projects within an array of sectors such as heritage, church, education, and health.
With this integral and important position, you will report to the board and manage a team of Contracts Managers. Your brief will be to manage and coordinate projects with the objective of delivering them commercially to programme and budget.
Operationally, you will be responsible for the effective management of site resources to achieve maximum efficiency and cost-effectiveness on these refurbishment projects, which range from £500k - £8m. You will have the ability to react quickly to challenging situations with a hands-on and commercial approach.
Your brief will include:
1. Estimating / Budgets
2. Programming and planning input
3. Client negotiations
4. Tender interviews
5. Cost value reconciliation budgets / reports
6. Procurement schedules
7. Risk and reward schedules
8. Design and build change cost advice
9. Subcontract, internal, and external project meetings
Ideally, this opportunity will suit you if you have the following skills, attributes, and experience:
1. Commercial and surveying background and then have transferred your skills to operations
2. Professional qualifications such as CIOB and/or BSc Quantity Surveyor
3. Extensive knowledge of all JCT Forms of Contract and NEC Contracts on both traditional and design & build basis
4. Ideally have at least 15 years post-graduate experience
5. Successfully managed operational teams that include Contracts Managers
6. Driven by success to maximise budgets whilst increasing turnover and margins
7. Experience of securing framework agreements and developing long-standing relationships
An attractive salary package and potential career growth will be on offer with this established contractor.
Position is also known as Operations Director, Head of Operations, Senior Contracts Manager, Associate Director, Divisional Director.
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