CONTRACTS MANAGER – LOT B SMART METERING
About the role
Posted: Wed, July 02, 2025
Job Location
Havant (with travel across project sites)
Job Description Are you a data-driven leader with a passion for safety, logistics, and delivering quality work? Join Cappagh Contractors as Contracts Manager on our Lot B Smart Metering programme for the Portsmouth Water AMP8 Framework.
You’ll be responsible for the safe, efficient, and customer-centric delivery of smart metering contracts, making a real impact on essential infrastructure. We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, uses data to make informed decisions, and puts safety and customer satisfaction first.
If you’re ready to champion best practice, lead dynamic teams, and drive operational excellence, we want to hear from you.
Company Cappagh Contractors
Reports to Operations Director
Cappagh Contractors are seeking a driven Contracts Manager to lead our Lot B Smart Metering initiative as part of the Portsmouth Water AMP8 framework. The ideal candidate will oversee all aspects of contract delivery, ensuring work is executed with the highest standards of safety, operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and quality. This role demands a proactive, data- driven approach to manage logistics, programme delivery, and stakeholder engagement.
Requirements Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage all contract activities within Lot B Smart Metering, ensuring compliance with safety standards and regulations.
- Oversee planning, scheduling, and coordination of field teams and subcontractors.
- Champion a safety-first culture, undertaking regular audits, toolbox talks, and incident investigations.
- Utilise data analytics and reporting to drive operational performance and decision-making.
- Manage logistics to ensure timely delivery of materials, resources, and equipment.
- Maintain high standards of quality assurance, carrying out regular inspections and ensuring compliance with specifications.
- Act as the main point of contact for clients and stakeholders, ensuring customer needs are at the heart of service delivery.
- Prepare and present progress reports, KPIs, and performance metrics.
Requirements
- Proven experience managing contracts in utilities, metering, or related civil engineering sectors.
- Demonstrable commitment to safety, quality, and customer service.
- Strong use of data and performance metrics to inform management decisions.
- Excellent organisational, logistical, and communication skills.
- Relevant qualifications in construction, engineering, or contract management.
- Proven experience working with integrated systems and databases.
- Strong knowledge of NRSWA and Streetworks
About Cappagh Contractors Cappagh Contractors is a respected civil engineering company specialising in utilities and water sector projects. We offer opportunities for career progression, ongoing training, and a commitment to quality, safety, and customer service. Working for Cappagh you will be the frontline of our business, embodying our “can do” attitude at every step of the way.
To apply send CV and cover letter using the form on this page – Reference PWConB
About Cappagh Group of Companies
You have probably benefitted from a service we have helped fix, build or maintain if you live or have visited the southern region of the UK. You may have drunk a glass of water. Flushed the loo. Driven your car to work. Been fishing at the weekend. Bought a new house or extended an old one. Or emptied your garage and had your rubbish collected. These services, often taken for granted, are essential to our modern way of living and our team are available 24/7 to make them happen.
Our work allows planes to land and depart from the UK’s busiest airport and we transport bespoke freight solutions across the UK. We partner with utilities ensuring necessary services like water, sewerage, gas and electric is supplied. We help developers connect new properties as well as providing them with the raw materials to build and the removal of their waste to our recycling centres. We help keep traffic flowing via a programme of highway drainage maintenance for London’s busiest boroughs. We improve the environment by regenerating old quarries & creating leisure spaces.
We are a progressive sustainable business. We are Cappagh Group of Companies.
CONTRACTS MANAGER – LOT B SMART METERING
About the role
Posted: Wed, July 02, 2025
Job Location
Havant (with travel across project sites)
Job Description Are you a data-driven leader with a passion for safety, logistics, and delivering quality work? Join Cappagh Contractors as Contracts Manager on our Lot B Smart Metering programme for the Portsmouth Water AMP8 Framework.
You’ll be responsible for the safe, efficient, and customer-centric delivery of smart metering contracts, making a real impact on essential infrastructure. We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, uses data to make informed decisions, and puts safety and customer satisfaction first.
If you’re ready to champion best practice, lead dynamic teams, and drive operational excellence, we want to hear from you.
Company Cappagh Contractors
Reports to Operations Director
Cappagh Contractors are seeking a driven Contracts Manager to lead our Lot B Smart Metering initiative as part of the Portsmouth Water AMP8 framework. The ideal candidate will oversee all aspects of contract delivery, ensuring work is executed with the highest standards of safety, operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and quality. This role demands a proactive, data- driven approach to manage logistics, programme delivery, and stakeholder engagement.
Requirements Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage all contract activities within Lot B Smart Metering, ensuring compliance with safety standards and regulations.
- Oversee planning, scheduling, and coordination of field teams and subcontractors.
- Champion a safety-first culture, undertaking regular audits, toolbox talks, and incident investigations.
- Utilise data analytics and reporting to drive operational performance and decision-making.
- Manage logistics to ensure timely delivery of materials, resources, and equipment.
- Maintain high standards of quality assurance, carrying out regular inspections and ensuring compliance with specifications.
- Act as the main point of contact for clients and stakeholders, ensuring customer needs are at the heart of service delivery.
- Prepare and present progress reports, KPIs, and performance metrics.
Requirements
- Proven experience managing contracts in utilities, metering, or related civil engineering sectors.
- Demonstrable commitment to safety, quality, and customer service.
- Strong use of data and performance metrics to inform management decisions.
- Excellent organisational, logistical, and communication skills.
- Relevant qualifications in construction, engineering, or contract management.
- Proven experience working with integrated systems and databases.
- Strong knowledge of NRSWA and Streetworks
About Cappagh Contractors Cappagh Contractors is a respected civil engineering company specialising in utilities and water sector projects. We offer opportunities for career progression, ongoing training, and a commitment to quality, safety, and customer service. Working for Cappagh you will be the frontline of our business, embodying our “can do” attitude at every step of the way.
To apply send CV and cover letter using the form on this page – Reference PWConB
About Cappagh Group of Companies
You have probably benefitted from a service we have helped fix, build or maintain if you live or have visited the southern region of the UK. You may have drunk a glass of water. Flushed the loo. Driven your car to work. Been fishing at the weekend. Bought a new house or extended an old one. Or emptied your garage and had your rubbish collected. These services, often taken for granted, are essential to our modern way of living and our team are available 24/7 to make them happen.
Our work allows planes to land and depart from the UK’s busiest airport and we transport bespoke freight solutions across the UK. We partner with utilities ensuring necessary services like water, sewerage, gas and electric is supplied. We help developers connect new properties as well as providing them with the raw materials to build and the removal of their waste to our recycling centres. We help keep traffic flowing via a programme of highway drainage maintenance for London’s busiest boroughs. We improve the environment by regenerating old quarries & creating leisure spaces.
We are a progressive sustainable business. We are Cappagh Group of Companies.