The client currently has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project Subcontracts Manager to join their Subcontracts division within the Procurement and Logistics team. This is a hands on role where you will be responsible for the effective formulation and administration of subcontracts for EPC projects whilst ensuring all contract and company requirements are met and also manage a small team.
The Job – Key Duties
Reporting to the Manager of Subcontracts, key duties of the role are:
- To lead the development of specific subcontract strategies and subcontract plans, to supervise commercial evaluations and manage effective negotiations to enable most cost effective use of the market place and to ensure maximum benefit to the project/proposal/company.
- Ensuring compliance to all subcontract policies and procedures as appropriate thus ensuring an efficient and auditable subcontract trail.
- To be the single point of contact for all project and proposal specific Subcontract issues and to work with Proposals, Project Management, Engineering, QSS, Shipping, Project Accounts and any other internal department to actively assist in the co-ordination of activities.
- Ensuring that subcontracts are executed to programme and budget.
- To effectively manage all subcontract related activities for assigned projects proposals, ensuring effective use of resources and processes (including other procurement/subcontract groups), thus achieving all Project / Proposal subcontract requirements to budget, delivery and quality.
- To provide effective subcontract status reporting which will make available to Project Management / Proposals information to facilitate effective management of the overall project / proposal and subcontract processes and to allow corrective actions to be applied as necessary.
- The ability to build, develop and maintain relationships within a multi discipline team environment covering site and office based construction, engineering, procurement and project management staff.
- HNC (or equivalent), Business Studies, Economics, Office Administration, Engineering
- HNC Business Studies or HNC Mechanical Engineering and/or
- Associate Member of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) and/or legal training/qualifications
- Extensive experience of working in a Subcontracts Function in the Power Generation and/or Mechanical / Process Industrial Sectors related to global EPC contracting projects.
- The successful candidate will have previous experience of working in a subcontract function in a construction environment within the construction, power generation or process industrial sectors.
- An excellent communicator at all levels you will have good document management skills, the ability to negotiate effectively with subcontractors and a working knowledge of subcontract formulation, administration processes and best practice, plus experience of leading teams in a project delivery environment.
Please send your CV to gvn@charlesandnuttall.co.uk if you are interested in this opportunity.
