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Senior Contracts Manager

📍 Location: South Shields, UK
💼 Full-time | Permanent
🔒 Security Clearance Required (SC level)

Are you an experienced Contracts or Project Manager looking for your next challenge?
A leading engineering and marine-focused organisation is seeking a proactive and highly organised Senior Contracts Manager to lead their project team. This role is central to planning, coordinating, and delivering high-profile technical projects across multiple stakeholders.

Role Summary

Reporting to the General Manager, you will oversee the allocation of tasks within the team, ensuring alignment with contract deliverables. You will collaborate with internal teams, contractors, OEMs, and external stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered on-time, on-budget, and to the highest standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the project team, ensuring successful development and completion of all technical tasks

• Oversee planning and execution of complex upgrade and modification programs

• Liaise with external stakeholders to ensure alignment with engineering and regulatory standards

• Coordinate with internal departments, contractors, and OEMs to define scope, budgets, and resource requirements

• Deliver projects from initial request through execution and completion

• Manage cost estimation, resource allocation, change control, and continuous improvement initiatives

• Maintain accurate technical documentation and produce comprehensive project reports

• Attend client meetings as the lead representative

• Contribute to invoicing and negotiation of final settlements with third parties

• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and statutory regulations

• Monitor team performance through KPIs and provide monthly updates to senior management

Qualifications & Experience

Essential:

• Proven experience in project or contract management, preferably in marine, engineering, or shipbuilding sectors

• HNC/HND or Degree in Mechanical, Marine, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline

• Experience managing cross-functional teams and multiple technical workstreams

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Project management certification (PRINCE2, APM, PMP)

• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Teams, SharePoint)

Desirable:

• Experience supporting complex, multi-stakeholder engineering projects

• Knowledge of industry standards, classification requirements, or regulatory frameworks

Benefits

• 23 days annual leave (rising to 25 after 4 years) plus bank holidays

• Holiday buy/sell scheme

• Free on-site parking

• Company-matched pension scheme

✅ This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Contracts Manager to take ownership of key technical projects, lead a skilled team, and contribute to a growing, dynamic organisation.

About Us

We are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive community. In line with our Diversity and Inclusion policy, we welcome applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability. As a Disability Confident Employer, and part of the Nicholas Associates Group, we are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities, and we're happy to discuss flexible working options.

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