Assistant Contract Manager

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Are you ready to take the lead on exciting steelwork and fabrication projects? At Galliford Try, we're looking for an Assistant Contract Manager to join our Fabrication Department in Paisley. This is your chance to play a key role in delivering high-quality Access Metalwork projects within the UK water industry, working with a team that values collaboration, innovation, and excellence.

In this role, you'll take full ownership of multiple contracts, guiding each one from start to finish while ensuring the highest standards of safety, quality, and profitability. You'll plan and manage project schedules, budgets, and resources to keep everything on track, while building strong relationships with clients, suppliers, and internal teams to ensure smooth delivery at every stage.

Compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards will be at the heart of everything you do, and you'll provide clear direction and objectives to your team, supporting operational managers and driving performance across all projects. This is a role where your leadership, technical expertise, and commercial awareness will make a real impact.

• Manage the project team, ensuring every member has defined objectives and clear roles and responsibilities.
• Work closely with the Operations Manager, Installation Manager, and Workshop Manager to optimise the use of direct labour resources across projects.
• Take full responsibility for the financial performance of your portfolio, including overall profit and loss on framework contracts.
• Prepare detailed project performance reports and participate in monthly financial and programme reviews with the Installation Manager.
• Ensure strict compliance with all company commercial and financial procedures.
• Complete all contract documentation accurately and on time.
• Negotiate and agree price variations and final accounts.
• Prepare estimates and quotations and provide tender vetting for other submissions.
• Confirm preliminary and detailed design requirements and develop practical project solutions.
• Liaise closely with departments such as tendering and design to ensure resources are allocated effectively and client requirements are met.
• Attend site visits and meetings to monitor progress and maintain strong client relationships.

• Proven experience in steelwork and fabrication (welding knowledge highly desirable).
• Strong commercial awareness and technical understanding.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills with the confidence to communicate with all members of project delivery both in house, sub-contractors, clients and suppliers.
• Ability to manage budgets, schedules, and contractual obligations.
• Resilient, flexible, and committed to delivering outstanding results.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• An industry applicable ONC/HNC/B.Eng or NVQ equivalent.
• IOSH or CITB 5 Day Site Safety Management (SMSTS).
• CSCS card.

• H&S qualifications.
• Experience with NEC contracts.
• Previous experience in water/sewage industry projects.

With an impressive order book of over £3.8 billion we are one of the industry's leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment.

With an ambitious strategy, we're poised for further growth and success, so if you're committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try…