Contracts Manager - Fire, Safety and Emergency Systems

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Lead the delivery team in ensuring compliance and safety for critical fire and emergency systems projects through rigorous governance and high-performance standards.

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.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Holidays and additional birthday leave: 21 days plus 8 bank - additional for birthday

Universal Business Team (“UBT”) is a global enterprise spanning 19 countries across the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, Central America and Australasia. UBT, headquartered in Sydney, Australia, is a diversified business consultancy that supports clients with business-advisory and group-buying services with the objective to help businesses develop a competitive edge. UBT was launched in 2009 in response to the Global Financial Crisis to support client organisations that were either in distress or looking to improve their competitiveness and financial performance. Currently, UBT turns over $500M (AUD) and has aspirations for significant growth over the next three to five years. A recent decision was made to bring four separate global regions together under the one global brand and leadership team. UBT’s business advisory services comprise corporate training, consulting, recruitment, accounting, and group buying services. UBT facilitates leadership and business excellence for our client’s in their respective industries. Through the group buying function, UBT nurtures mutually-beneficial relationships between member businesses and world-leading providers of business goods and services. The outcome to which we strive is a “win-win” for small-to-medium enterprises and big business alike. UBT provides services and products to approximately 3,000 independent, family-owned businesses globally with combined annual revenues exceeding $12B (AUD). The majority are small to medium sized enterprises with typical annual revenue ranges between $5m-$20m. However, there are also some larger businesses with annual revenues in the range of $100m-$250m. The unifying feature of all UBT’s clients is that the owners are parishioners of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC). UBT (which is owned by the PBCC) supports clients by providing products, services and support designed to increase their profitability and growth. The after-tax profits generated by UBT are reinvested into community initiatives, predominantly through schools (established to educate the children of Brethren families) and charities, such as the Rapid Relief Team (“RRT”) and the Red Cross. UBT Recruitment are an Equal Opportunities Employer. We will apply a rigorous, objective selection process using non-discriminatory criteria, as far as possible on behalf of all the businesses we recruit for.To view our policy in full please contact [email protected]

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