Grounds Maintenance, Contract Manager (Nottingham)

Recruiter
Anonymous
Location
Nottingham
Salary
32000.00 - 40000.00 GBP Annual + car, bonus, full package
Posted
12 Jan 2017
Closes
25 Jan 2017
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Grounds Maintenance, Contract Manager

Our Client is seeking a dynamic, driven, experienced and committed Contract Manager to manage commercial grounds maintenance work in Nottingham and surrounding area.

Roles and responsibilities:
The Contract Manager. The role is divided into two components: delivering consistent grounds maintenance service and acquiring and managing additional business.
A Contract Manager's management of his Field Teams and directly employed staff will be a critical success factor to delivering maintenance work on-time to the specified standard. responsibilities will be:
o Training Field Teams in "Ways of Working" and expected quality standards
o Daily quality monitoring of Field Teams' work
o Performance Management
o Recruiting new Field Teams
o Direct management of Directly Employed Staff
o Effective customer and client relationships
o Providing management reports
The second key component of the role is ability to price, sell, and manage landscaping work. These works may either be additional work required on sites currently maintained by Ground Control or large landscaping projects implemented as part of a construction project. In order to sell these works, the Contract Manager will have to develop successful working relationships with local client decision-makers:
o Accurately price new maintenance sites under tender
o Identify, price and supervise additional works on existing maintenance sites

The ideal candidate will be a proven Manager looking to progress in an exciting, forward thinking company.
The candidate will ideally have had some, but not necessarily all, of the following experiences before joining:
o Two to three year's practical work experience ("on the tools") in landscaping or grounds maintenance
o Two to three year's management experience
o Further education, ideally in Horticulture
o Entrepreneurial experience running his/her own business
Offering a competitive salary, semi-annual bonuses, company stock options, company pension and other benefits