Contracts Manager

Contracts Manager

We are looking for an estimator/contracts manager to join our team to oversee pricing, securing, and managing painting contracts from start to finish. This exciting opportunity offers the chance to be involved in all aspects of managing painting and decorating contracts from initial enquiry through to completion.

• Surveying properties / structures for painting work.
• Assessing painting projects, estimating the cost, labour resources, materials and time for completion.
• Putting together well‑presented, competitive tender packages for work.
• Producing risk assessments and method statements for contracts, ensuring health and safety procedures are adhered to throughout projects.
• Managing the contract from start to finish, ensuring that productivity targets and defined quality and safety standards are met.
• Managing site‑based operatives.

• Experience of pricing single painting projects
• Experience of winning painting contracts through competitive tendering.
• Strong skills in financial analysis and commercial awareness.
• Ability to manage several projects simultaneously.
• Initiative and ability to solve problems.
• Experience of managing site‑based operatives.
• Experience of running painting contracts from start to finish.
• Strong IT skills.
  
  Full driving licence.

Bagnalls is a leading, family‑owned, painting contractor, established in 1875, with over 600 employees and branches across the UK. We are committed to live our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and People. We have a commitment to the long‑term development of our staff and are proud that the management team have clocked up an average length of service of 24 years.

Four of our seven Executive Board members started as Management Trainees with the business.

We are a Top 100 Apprenticeship Employer 2022 and were awarded Large Business Apprentice Employer of the Year at the 2023 West Yorkshire Apprenticeship Awards.

Location: Cardiff

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

Benefits: The exact package will be conditional on skills and experience. The package will involve a basic salary, performance‑related bonus and company car.

Department: Painting and Decorating

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 39

Salary: Competitive

You may have experience of the following:
Painting Estimator, Surveyor, Estimating, Contracts Manager, Foreman, Property Maintenance, RICS, CIOB, Contract Manager, Painting & Decorating, etc.