M&E Contracts Manager

M&E Contracts Manager - (Building Services / MEP)                 

Exeter, Devon – Hybrid Working                   

To £50K Dependent on Experience

MEP / Building Services / Contracts Manager / FM Manager / Hard FM / M&E / Electrical / Mechanical

This Contracts Manager role is to join a down to earth supportive friendly team in a large multidisciplinary building consultancy. The main area of activity is mechanical and electrical works for sectors such as education and local authority.

As contract manager you will be responsible for ensuring that planned maintenance is carried out safely, on time and to an agreed set of industry standards, as well as procuring and overseeing unplanned maintenance as and when required. The role will include production of minor design work to support planned and unplanned replacement of existing small-scale building services installations.

This employer is proud to offer a good work life balance with a 37 hour working week and are highly supportive of professional development.

Main Responsibilities Include

• The management of service term contracts including those for gas- and oil-fired heating and hot water systems, low-carbon heating (heat pumps), air conditioning, automated doors, lifts, commercial kitchen extract ventilation, water hygiene, small-scale sewage treatment plant, fire alarms, emergency lighting, periodic electrical testing, lightning protection systems.
• Ensuring that service term contractors maintain safe working practices and that the respective equipment is maintained in a safe working condition.
• Periodic and sample inspections of working practices are required and current competence in this aspect must be identified and maintained by the post-holder.
• Acting as the single point of contact for the client, their appointed facilities managers, and the end-users of the maintained equipment.
• Delivering small scale planned and unplanned maintenance projects with the assistance, as required, of the professional building services engineering team and in full in accordance with client brief and professional standards.
• Scheduling and coordinating resources, liaising with colleagues, commissioners and clients as required.
• Carrying out client site representative/clerk of works duties, condition surveys, dilapidation, or specific surveys to provide information for stock condition/asset management system or to aid asset appraisal.

Qualifications/Attributes

• The ability to demonstrate substantial, relevant experience in a similar or related role.
• HNC/HND or equivalent in a Building Services Engineering related discipline.
• A relevant health and safety qualification and current site card, or is prepared to immediately obtain.
• Familiar with relevant construction, health and safety legislation and risks and hazards associated with asbestos.
• Full UK Driving Licence