Senior Contract Manager
Posted 2 weeks ago by Guidant Global
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
Summary: The Senior Contract Manager is responsible for overseeing health, safety, and environmental compliance, ensuring best practices are followed across the GM area. This role involves managing customer relationships, contract delivery, and financial performance while promoting continuous improvement and business development within the energy sector. The position requires a strong technical background and experience in operations and maintenance services. The Senior Contract Manager will also focus on people management and succession planning within the team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards.
- Promote best HS&E practices and maintain a focus on 'Zero Harm'.
- Manage customer relationships and contract health reviews.
- Utilize support functions to develop and execute improvement plans.
- Track financial performance and assist with budget preparation.
- Assist with succession planning and develop training plans.
- Work with local teams to establish new business opportunities.
Key Skills:
- Experience in delivering O&M services within the energy sector.
- Health and Safety qualifications (e.g., IOSH, NEBOSH).
- Technical background in Energy.
- HNC or equivalent in Engineering or relevant qualification.
- Commercial and contractual experience.
- Renewable energy and electrical experience beneficial.
- Experience with CEF contracts beneficial.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Ellesmere Port
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Responsibilities:
- Safety Health and Environment
- Ensure Contract Manager, Site Manager and Supervisors exercising Management and control of HS&E, in terms of legal compliance to Veolia's standards and legislation
- Maintain focus on 'Zero Harm'
- Take an active role across GM area to promote and encourage best HS&E practice
- Delivery of Veolia Minimum Standards across the portfolio
- Technical
- Waste Knowledge - Non hazardous and Hazardous
- Treatment technologies for recycling streams
- Project Management and problem solving
- Circular Economy / Application of the Waste Hierarchy
- Contract Delivery
- Strong Customer Management skills to manage
- Maintain current Contract Health reviews with actions to improve contract delivery
- Build relationships with customers with view to extend contracts, expand scope of work and sell other services to customers
- Quality Management/ Continuous Improvement
- Utilise the Veolia support functions to assist with developing and executing Improvement plans
- Able to recognise problems and use resource available to solve these problems
- Work with wider teams to standardise processes to build resilience across contracts
- Financial, Commercial & Contract Management
- Work with your Contract Manager, Site Managers and Supervisors for all to understand their P&Ls and to track performance
- Keep 'Lead in' forecast up to date and develop mitigation plans when forecasts indicate below target performance.
- In consultation with team prepare annual budgets and F1/2 forecasts and assist with presenting to Senior Mgt
- Understand contracts to ensure Veolia extra full commercial value
- People Management
- Assist with succession planning for the area, to include mentoring graduates and talent within area
- Develop training and development plans
- Work with teams to ensure teams are motivated and delivering to a high standard
- Business Development
- Work with the local teams and BD to find and establish new business across the region.