# Contracts Manager - Fire, Safety and Emergency Systems

> Universal Business Team · Coventry, United Kingdom · Full-time · Posted 2025-11-06

**Salary:** GBP 55,000–60,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

**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.

## Apply

[Apply at Universal Business Team](https://apply.workable.com/ubteam/j/704CCE826E/apply)

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