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Contracts Manager - Fire, Safety and Emergency SystemsUniversal Business Team • Coventry, England, GB
Contracts Manager - Fire, Safety and Emergency Systems

Contracts Manager - Fire, Safety and Emergency Systems

Universal Business Team • Coventry, England, GB
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
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Job description

Contracts Manager - Fire, Safety and Emergency Systems
Location:
Coventry
Department: Projects Delivery
Package: Competitive Salary

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
  • Empowered, engaged project teams who grow under your leadership

Who You Are

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
  • You don’t wait to be told — you anticipate, plan, communicate and execute

Requirements

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
  • Desirable: SMSTS/SSSTS, IOSH/NEBOSH, CSCS Manager/Professional, Building Safety Act understanding

Benefits

  • Holidays: 21 days plus 8 bank - additional for birthday
  • Recognised and valued employee - not just a number
  • Package: Competitive

This is a rare opportunity to step into a role with genuine responsibility, trust and influence, in an organisation where compliance, excellence and people leadership truly matter.

You’ll be supported, listened to and empowered to build capability — not firefight chaos.

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