Howells Recruitment
Job Title: Contract Manager – Passive Fire
Location: North London
Salary: >£65,000 + Package
We are pleased to be working with a leading specialist manufacturer & 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/Responsibilities:
- Manage multiple passive fire protection (PFP) projects from inception to completion, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to specification.
- Oversee both direct labour teams and subcontractors, maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and performance.
- Ensure compliance with all fire safety regulations, company procedures, and relevant standards (BS EN 1634, BS 8214, BS 9999).
- Maintain strong commercial awareness-monitoring budgets, costs, and project profitability.
- Act as the key point of contact for clients, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
- Produce and manage project documentation, programmes, and progress reports.
- Implement and monitor quality assurance processes, including Property Quality Plans (PQP) and Inspection and Test Plans (ITP), to ensure first-pass compliance and regulator-ready audit trails.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying process efficiencies, value engineering opportunities, and cost-saving initiatives without compromising safety or compliance.
- Ensure subcontractors and operatives are suitably qualified, trained, and using accredited materials and products.
- Conduct site inspections, monitor defect resolution, and ensure all installations are recorded and traceable via Shellen's digital systems (Golden Thread).
- Liaise with design teams, clients, and third-party auditors to resolve technical issues and maintain programme momentum.
- Promote a culture of safety, compliance, and excellence across all project teams.
Experience:
- Proven experience as a Contracts Manager within the fire protection, construction, or fire & security industries.
- Strong understanding of fire stopping, fire doors, compartmentation, and containment.
- Experience managing large-scale projects (£2-4 million).
- Excellent communication, leadership, and organisational skills.
- Stakeholder engagement
- Commercially astute with the ability to manage budgets and contractual obligations.
- Full UK driving licence.
Salary and Benefits:
- Company car, laptop and mobile phone.
- Annual holiday allowance of 21 days plus Bank Holidays
- Rising with an additional day for each year of service (to a maximum of 3 additional days)
- Pension plan
- Free parking on site
- Inclusion to company fun days
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