What's involved with this role: Interim Contract Delivery & Quality Manager - Property Services Job Ref: Brent 5258864 Pay Rate: £27.76 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3-4 months City: WEMBLEY, LONDON Basic DBS disclosure required Commission and contract manage multi-million pound: mechanical and electrical services; responsive repairs, maintenance and servicing; planned maintenance and refurbishment work that achieves agreed outcomes for the Council, customers and stakeholders and that meet the Council’s objectives and affordability targets by improving value for money and providing high quality services. Be accountable for appropriate project outcomes with regard to: feasibility studies, brief development, design, procurement, delivery, finance & budgeting, cost control and quality of work on the full range of construction, servicing, repairs and maintenance services, and the provision of advice and contract management from feasibility study to final account of planned maintenance and refurbishment works projects. Provide up-to-date building surveying and technical advice and guidance to the Property Services Team, and other sections of the council, members and customers to ensure decisions and recommendations are appropriate and well informed. Key accountabilities: Make a positive contribution to the delivery of customer focussed property management services; working flexibly and positively to achieve the objectives of the service and the council. Contract manage contractors, consultants and other agencies in line with the relevant form of contract or contract terms and conditions. Manage and lead project staff to achieve high performance and effective operational delivery, including developing and improving staff capability. Prepare, lead and direct contractors on the management and delivery of responsive repairs and maintenance, servicing, planned maintenance and refurbishment works, services and programmes, to achieve the statutory compliance objectives, and programme delivery, customer service and budget management objectives. Be a cohesive part of an intelligent client and integrate contract management within the commissioning process and ensure clarity of roles and accountabilities. Provide specialist commercial expertise, construction and maintenance knowledge to extend the benefits from collaborative procurement to the management of contracts. Ensure the provision of cross cutting commissioning and commercial expertise to support each stage of the commissioning cycle. Realise the benefits from greater cross-council collaboration as well as effective partnership and supplier relationship management. Ensure statutory approvals are in place for commissioned works, including planning submissions and facilitating discussions with the borough’s Planning and Building Control Department. Act as Principal Designer as required to coordinate health and safety on all projects. Obtain support from the Strategic Compliance Manager. Ensure project and design risk management processes are implemented. Undertake site surveys, work inspections and work valuations and subsequent reporting. Carry out comprehensive surveys as required. Advise on and produce and specify planned and cyclical maintenance programmes for the borough as required. Prepare detailed schedules of work, feasibility studies and cost estimates. Key requirements: Please provide a one page cover letter including the following information: Comprehensive M and E knowledge Working knowledge of building construction, building maintenance techniques and building contract law and administration Knowledge of health and safety and relevant statutory legislation and its application to construction through the CDM regulations Knowledge of completing risk assessments and asbestos awareness A good knowledge of building techniques used in domestic buildings A good understanding of domestic building trades, including plumbing, electrical, carpentry, heating and wet trades Proven experience of working in the capacity of a building surveyor or M and E manager in the Housing/ Property Sector Experience of managing complex and multiple maintenance and servicing contracts and programmes. Experience of undertaking feasibility studies, consultant briefs, client briefs, design and procurement of major works projects. Experience of consulting and communicating with clients and customers to provide advice on range of building related matters Experience of providing effective commercial, financial, risk management, and contractual advice Experience in monitoring risks relating to contracting and commercial development activities and developing mitigation and contingency management plans Experience of coordinating health and safety on projects Experience of undertaking site surveys, work inspections and work valuations Demonstrable experience of providing detailed analysis and report writing Experience of leading negotiations to achieve mutually agreed outcomes Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess and evaluate a range of options and able to think strategically and contribute to the overall success of the business Personally effective with excellent organisational skills and ability to plan and coordinate own workload, prioritise tasks and be self motivating with the ability to work on own initiative, or within a team Able to manage budgets Able to diagnose building defects and specify suitable remedial measures and provide sound advice and guidance on complex technical information Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you) – please give full details within your CV document. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please