Contracts Manager - Fire, Safety and Emergency Systems
21 hours ago
Coventry
Contracts Manager - Fire, Safety and Emergency Systems Location: Coventry Department: Projects Delivery Package: Competitive Salary and benefits Lead with Integrity. Deliver with Excellence. Build What Protects Lives. We are a respected life-safety solutions provider, trusted by clients across the UK for delivering critical fire and emergency-systems projects with absolute compliance and care. We are now seeking a Projects Delivery & Contracts Manager to lead our Projects Delivery Team and ensure every system we install is safe, compliant and completed to the highest standards — with a robust audit trail from concept to commissioning. This is a senior leadership role for someone who combines technical excellence, emotional intelligence, and a passion for high-standards in a regulated, mission-critical environment. If you see process, governance and compliance not as bureaucracy, but as the backbone of life-safety excellence, we want to speak with you. Your Purpose Lead and develop a high-performing delivery team, ensuring multiple fire-life-safety projects are delivered safely, compliantly, and profitably, following a proven stage-gate methodology. You’ll bring people together — internal teams, suppliers, subcontractors and clients — to deliver projects that pass every audit, earn client trust, and protect life and property. What You’ll Lead • Daily project delivery cadence & contractor coordination, • Stage-gate control from pre-construction to handover and aftercare, • Testing, commissioning & technical compliance against BS 5839 and BAFE requirements, • Client, consultant & stakeholder engagement, • Health & Safety leadership, CDM compliance & site audits, • Commercial control, forecasting, variations & final accounts, • Coaching & developing project managers, supervisors & commissioning staff., • You will be the glue that connects planning to execution, and strategy to safe-in-service systems., • You'll be hungry for success and want to develop your career. What Good Looks Like • Zero-harm safety culture & robust CDM controls, • Fully evidenced, auditable project records, • On-time delivery with controlled variations, • Strong client relationships & repeat business You bring both competence and character. You are: • Calm under pressure; a clear thinker in complexity, • Detail-focused and compliance-driven, • A confident communicator — from site to boardroom, • Emotionally intelligent, collaborative and trusted, • Proactive, structured and solutions-focused, • Resilient, adaptable and committed to continuous improvement, • Grounded, self-aware and integrity-led — always doing what’s right What You Bring • 5+ years’ experience delivering building-services / M&E / life-safety projects, • Strong understanding of BS 5839-1 and industry standards, • Experience commissioning and delivering fire-safety systems, • Familiarity with BAFE SP203-1 / LPS 1014 frameworks (advantageous), • Competent in Microsoft 365, planning tools and evidence management, • Full UK Driving Licence, • Holidays: 21 days plus 8 bank - additional for birthday, • Recognised and valued employee - not just a number You’ll be supported, listened to and empowered to build capability — not firefight chaos.