Contract Manager - Passive Fire, Watford

Job Title: Contract Manager (Passive Fire)
Location: Watford (Will involve travel)
Salary: Competitive + benefits

We are pleased to be working with a leading specialist contractor in passive fire protection, delivering high-quality fire stopping, fire doors, and compartmentation works across a wide range of sectors including residential, healthcare, education, and commercial projects. With a strong reputation for safety, compliance, and excellence, they pride themselves on their commitment to protecting lives and property through superior workmanship.

Duties:

• Full P&L responsibility of projects from receipt of order to final account stage
• Producing project site files, incorporating all relevant site documentation
• Application of project programme timescales, building the programme of works for production
• Assessment of all sub-contractor H&S documentation, including client employed contractors
• Preparation and collation of Principal Contractor H&S documentation
• External Stakeholder Management - Client site progress meetings with property team and project Interested parties, safety consultants, designers, local authority, or property tenants
• Internal Stakeholder Management - Weekly labour and production review meetings reporting to the board and preparing senior management reports for weekly client SMT updates
• Cost Management, working alongside the assigned QS, monitoring the project lifecycle cost, engaging with the buyer to achieve cost effective materials and sub-contract teams
• Scope Change Management, ensuring any additional works requested are costed, submitted for approval by the QS before being undertaken onsite

Qualifications / Certs

• SMSTS
• CSCS
• First Aid
• Asbestos Awareness
• Passive Fire Accreditation

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) + Paid Christmas Shutdown
• Car / allowance
• 5% employer pension contribution
• Healthcare
• Training and development opportunities
• Flexible, family friendly working environment
• Team/company events and competitions