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Contracts Manager

  • Job
    Full-time
    Senior & Expert Level
  • Construction & Surveying
    Engineering
  • Cork

AI generated summary

  • You must have an engineering degree, extensive construction experience, strong contract knowledge, leadership skills, and a drive for safety, commercial success, and client relations.
  • You will manage projects from tender to completion, ensuring commercial performance, safety, and environmental standards while leading teams, meeting client requirements, and controlling budgets.

Requirements

  • • Possess an Engineering or Construction Honours Degree.
  • • A considerable amount of experience in the construction industry on large scale civil projects.
  • • Be capable of managing a number of major civil engineering projects concurrently.
  • • Be committed to driving health and safety culture on projects.
  • • Have proven track record in delivering excellent commercial results on projects.
  • • Be capable of leading project teams to deliver to programme and budget.
  • • Have tendering experience in major civil engineering projects.
  • • Be driven and enthusiastic.
  • • Have good technical knowledge of major civil engineering projects.
  • • Have excellent contract awareness.
  • • Possess good problem-solving skills.
  • • Be an excellent communicator.
  • • Contribute to the business development and establishment/maintaining of customer relationships.

Responsibilities

  • Operate as a senior representative for BAM on projects.
  • Role model BAM values and behaviours on our projects.
  • Responsibility for delivering commercial performance on projects.
  • Be responsible for projects from Tender through to Completion.
  • Responsibility for health and safety excellence and promote BAM’s Safety culture across our projects.
  • Responsibility for environmental performance on projects.
  • Direct responsibility for leading and motivation of project teams.
  • Ensuring that the client requirements are being met on projects.
  • Responsibility for identification and minimisation of key risks and opportunities on projects.
  • Promote innovative and best practice construction methodologies on projects.
  • Be responsible for budgeting and cost control on projects.
  • Attend monthly and quarterly cost review meetings.
  • Attend regular management meetings.
  • Lead regular meeting with project teams, clients/customers and other key stakeholders.

FAQs

What is the primary responsibility of the Contracts Manager?

The primary responsibility of the Contracts Manager is to deliver commercial performance on projects, ensuring that client requirements are met and managing projects from tender through to completion.

What qualifications are required for the Contracts Manager position?

A candidate must possess an Engineering or Construction Honours Degree and have significant experience in the construction industry, particularly on large-scale civil projects.

Who should apply for this role?

This role is suited for individuals with a considerable amount of experience managing major civil engineering projects, a commitment to health and safety culture, and a proven track record in delivering excellent commercial results.

What benefits does BAM offer to Contracts Managers?

BAM offers a competitive salary, an 8% pension contribution, private health insurance, generous annual leave, wellbeing days, learning and development opportunities, and company vehicles (role dependent), among other perks.

How does BAM promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace?

BAM values creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is committed to nurturing employees from all backgrounds, encouraging them to bring their best selves to work.

What are some of the key activities a Contracts Manager will engage in?

Key activities include leading project teams, attending cost review meetings, ensuring health and safety excellence, promoting best practice construction methodologies, and identifying risks and opportunities.

Is prior experience in tendering major civil engineering projects important for this role?

Yes, having tendering experience in major civil engineering projects is a crucial requirement for the Contracts Manager position.

How does BAM support the professional development of its employees?

BAM encourages and fosters internal progression and offers learning and development opportunities to help employees develop their skills to the highest industry standards.

What kind of work environment can a Contracts Manager expect at BAM?

Contracts Managers can expect a supportive work environment where people are at the heart of what they do, emphasizing collaboration, reliability, and a commitment to sustainable practices.

What is BAM's approach to health and safety?

BAM is committed to promoting health and safety excellence across its projects and fostering a strong health and safety culture within its teams.

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Mission & Purpose

Royal BAM Group nv designs, builds and maintains high quality, sustainable buildings, homes, and infrastructure for public and private sector clients. BAM is one of a few large companies to have set science-based targets to reduce the CO2 intensity of its operations by 50 per cent in 2030 compared to 2015, and is committed to maintaining its place on the Climate Change A List, published by CDP each year. This commitment is set out in BAM’s strategy for 2021-2023, called ‘Building a sustainable tomorrow’, which also aims to provide employees with safe and rewarding work, and generate attractive returns for shareholders. Using the latest industry innovations, our 13,500 employees reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment, whilst delivering increased well-being and social value to the communities we serve. Royal BAM Group supports clients through two main divisions (Netherlands, and United Kingdom and Ireland), in Belgium and a PPP business. Royal BAM Group is listed on the Amsterdam Euronext exchange.