Contract Manager - Passive Fire

  • Howells Solutions Limited
  • City, Birmingham
  • 29/01/2026
Full time Construction

Job Description

Job Title: Contract Manager (Passive Fire)
Location: Midlands
(Will involve travel)
Salary: Competitive + benefits

We are pleased to be working with a leading specialist contractor in passive fire protection, delivering high-quality fire stopping, fire doors, and compartmentation works across a wide range of sectors including residential, healthcare, education, and commercial projects. With a strong reputation for safety, compliance, and excellence, they pride themselves on their commitment to protecting lives and property through superior workmanship.

Duties:

  • Full P&L responsibility of projects from receipt of order to final account stage
  • Producing project site files, incorporating all relevant site documentation
  • Application of project programme timescales, building the programme of works for production
  • Assessment of all sub-contractor H&S documentation, including client employed contractors
  • Preparation and collation of Principal Contractor H&S documentation
  • External Stakeholder Management - Client site progress meetings with property team and project Interested parties, safety consultants, designers, local authority, or property tenants
  • Internal Stakeholder Management - Weekly labour and production review meetings reporting to the board and preparing senior management reports for weekly client SMT updates
  • Cost Management, working alongside the assigned QS, monitoring the project lifecycle cost, engaging with the buyer to achieve cost effective materials and sub-contract teams
  • Scope Change Management, ensuring any additional works requested are costed, submitted for approval by the QS before being undertaken onsite

Qualifications / Certs

  • SMSTS
  • CSCS
  • First Aid
  • Asbestos Awareness
  • Passive Fire Accreditation

Benefits:

  • 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) + Paid Christmas Shutdown
  • Car / allowance
  • 5% employer pension contribution
  • Healthcare
  • Training and development opportunities
  • Flexible, family friendly working environment
  • Team/company events and competitions