Contract Manager

Place of Work/Group Company: Nijhuis Saur Industries Industrial O&M Solutions North

Summary:
The Contract Manager is responsible for operating maintaining optimising and improving
the water and or wastewater assets at their assigned customer locations.

This will involve all aspects of the plant operations including process operations
maintenance asset care development projects resource management risk managementcost management and contract management.

The Contract Manager is expected to drive operational excellence and significantly improvethe reliability and efficiency of the wastewater systems and add to the overall businessdelivery.

You will take full P&L responsibility for the sites and will look to increasethe profitability of the contracts and identify opportunities for business growth.

As part of the role you will be expected to be onsite in Scarboroughfor a minimum of 3 days per week. Travel to other sites across the UK may be required on an as/when basis.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Visible leadership on HSE issues at all levels both in the client organisation and
  internally.
• Implement and maintain HSE systems and processes for assigned sites.
• Identify and mitigate HSE risks for assigned sites.
• Control of P&L through effective budget setting customer management and cost
  control.
• Successfully deliver projects with strong focus on schedule quality and cost.
• Recognition of risks to company & contract and apply appropriate risk management
  strategies.
• Analyse operational and process risks within the context of longterm site service
  contract and manage these to minimise impact.
• Development of improvement plans to reduce contractual risk.
• Establish and maintain professional relationships with Customer personnel
  Company employees and subcontractor staff.
• Ensure team exhibit proactive attitude to maintaining contract compliance and
  improving plant performance.
• Drive continual improvement in all areas of the contracts assigned.
• Recognise additional opportunities for Company at Customer site through close
  working relationships and understanding customer operations.
• Lead incident response in conjunction with Senior Management Team.
• Develop plant KPIs and other resources to ensure clear & efficient monitoring of plant performance.
• Identify and fill in gaps associated with technical documentation and procedures required at plant.
• Establish quality standards for sites and ensure that these are always met.
• Ensure adequate resources are available to fulfil contractual requirements.
• Support the development of training and competence material & ensure that all staff fulfil these requirements.
• Establish Company culture on assigned sites while incorporating best practices from the client side.

Required Skills/Qualifications (Essential):

• Extensive Water / Wastewater experience in a leadership role
• Proven track record in full management of a P&L.
• Ability to leading a customer through the sales process.
• Proven ability to manage and respond to incidents.
• Experience working directly with a customer including leading facilitating and
  contributing to meetings.
• Experience in managing a team of operators skilled technicians and engineers.
• Project management experience.
• High level of IT literacy.

Required Skills/Qualifications (Desirable):

• Strong familiarity with Contract Terms & Conditions.
• Experience in developing & negotiating contracts with clients and suppliers.
• Dispute management experience.
• Certificate/training in Quality Environmental Health and Safety systems.
• Strong knowledge of budgets and budget control.
• Ability to manage site/operations managers.
• Experience working with regulatory bodies.

Working for us means:

The salary is between 40000 & 50000 per year depending on your professional experience

Bonus up to 10%

Hours of Work 40 hours per week Monday to Friday

Holidays 25 days 8 statutory days

Probationary Period 6 months

Pension Can join immediately or auto enrolled after 3 months Employee 4.5% and Employer 4.5% via salary sacrifice

Eligible to join Private Healthcare after successfully completing probation

Enrolled in Group Income Protection and Death in Service (4 x basic salary) upon commencement of employment

Notice 1 week during probation increasing to 1 month thereafter

Nijhuis Saur Industries UK & Ireland are an equal opportunity employer; we are committed to providing equal opportunities in all aspects of employment in line with the Equality Act 2010.

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