Senior Contract Manager

FM Conway is currently recruiting for a Senior Contract Manager to join our growing Street Lighting division, based in London.

As our Senior Contract Manager, you will support the Street Lighting division by overseeing the contracts and implementing the street lighting and electrical works. You will be responsible for developing the street lighting business throughout the contracts.

The duties of the Senior Contract Manager role will include:

1. Overseeing the planning and programming of works, including pre-contract site visits to determine project requirements.
2. Managing and overseeing the relevant street lighting contracts team, motivating them, dealing with any performance issues, and promoting the continual professional development of all key members of staff.
3. Ensuring that all site works are executed in a timely and cost-efficient manner whilst ensuring regular liaison with clients, public authorities, sub-contractors, and suppliers. This includes ensuring that the correct licences/permits are in place and valid for the works being undertaken.
4. Reviewing and updating Health and Safety Plans, Safe Systems of Work, Risk Assessments, and Environmental Plans, ensuring that all new sites or new work orders have the appropriate documentation in place.
5. Ensuring portfolios and other documentation are maintained to the required industry standard to retain accreditation to the relevant industrial bodies.

What skills and experience do you need?

We are looking for candidates with previous experience within a similar role. It is essential that you have worked in the street lighting industry within a commercially focused role. To be considered for this role, you must have strong electrical knowledge, experience in programming, H&S site-specific risk assessments, and good IT skills. In addition, you will be an excellent communicator with high business ethics, and you will have the following qualifications/certifications:

1. 210 G39 certification.
2. HEA/HERS Authorised Officer.
3. CSCS.
4. SMSTS.
5. Full UK driving licence.

What benefits will you receive?

As our Senior Contract Manager, we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, life assurance, healthcare, car allowance, opportunities for internal and external training, and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines and support from our in-house mental health first aiders.

A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Street Lighting Division

FM Conway is a family-run business with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity, and Excellence. As a family business, the heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people, and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.

Our Lighting division has over 60 years of experience working on high-profile projects in Central London. From design and installation through to refurbishment and maintenance, we understand what it takes to deliver lighting systems that combine cost and energy efficiency as well as optimum performance. At FM Conway, we offer comprehensive end-to-end support, helping customers with project inception and development, all the way through to implementation and project delivery. Some of our iconic Lighting projects include the Illuminated River project which saw the business install lighting on London, Southwark, Cannon Street Railway, and Millennium Bridges. We have also worked on Westminster City Council Sturgeon Columns and SureCharge, our Electric Vehicle charging solutions. This is an exciting time to be joining the business as we are at the forefront of deploying new technologies, asset management, and small cell technology practices into the lighting sector.