Job Description
Contracts Manager (Curo Enterprise)
Salary: £90,460
The Hub, Mulberry Park, Bath | Full Time | Permanent | 40 hours per week
Your Leadership. Our Developments. Homes Delivered.
Running several sites at once is a different job from running one. You’re delivering through your Site Managers, holding multiple programmes in view, and making key decisions.
At Curo Enterprise, we build homes to fund something bigger — the affordable housing and community work at the heart of Curo, the housing association we’re part of. The senior team stays close enough to decide with you, not over you. You lead your Site Managers, own the delivery and build to a standard you’re proud of — bringing our Quality Homes objective to life on the ground.
We’re looking for an experienced Contracts Manager to take charge of delivery across our developments — leading site teams to bring projects in on time, on budget and to a quality the business can stand behind.
What you’ll be doing
• Leading and supporting your Site Managers to deliver build programmes safely, on time and to the highest quality
• Setting up new sites and putting the Construction Management and Health & Safety plans into practice
• Running project and contract meetings, agreeing rolling programmes with Site Managers and holding delivery against them
• Spotting delays and variations early across your sites, then agreeing the action plans to recover them
• Owning health and safety across your developments, making sure site practices meet legislation, CDM regulations and Curo’s own standards
• Keeping a firm grip on commercial performance — appraising costs, managing budgets and protecting value for money
• Overseeing quality inspections and working with NHBC, LABC and statutory bodies to keep schemes compliant through to adoption
• Reporting to the Construction Director and giving the senior team a clear, honest picture of where every site stands
What you’ll get in return
Beyond a competitive salary and the chance to make a real difference every day, you’ll get:
• 26 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) rising to 29 days after 3 years
• Your birthday off as an extra holiday
• Up to 10% matched pension contribution
• Free parking at many of our locations
• Flexible benefits which might include a Health Cash Plan
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme for your own wellbeing
More about you
You’ve run multiple sites at once and know what it takes to deliver through other people — getting the best from your Site Managers, keeping several programmes on track and stepping in with the right call when one starts to drift.
You think commercially as well as operationally. You can read the financial picture across your developments, manage budgets and design development within them, and you grasp the contractual side when disputes or variations arise. You hold the detail — drawings, specifications, complex programmes — while keeping the wider view.
You lead by building relationships, and you stay calm and decisive when priorities pull in different directions.
What matters most:
• Substantial experience managing construction sites, ideally across private and social housing
• Strong commercial awareness — appraising performance and managing delivery within budget
• A solid grasp of health and safety legislation and CDM regulations
• Confident with project management software (Asta Powerproject is a plus, not a must)
• A full driving licence and access to your own transport for site visits
A Diploma in Construction Management is welcome, but we’re just as interested in people who’ve built that knowledge on site.
About Curo Enterprise
Curo Enterprise is the commercial housebuilding arm of Curo. We build high-quality new homes for sale and rent across the South West, with profits reinvested into affordable housing and community work. Our development programme will deliver more than 1,000 new homes by 2031, across flagship schemes including Mulberry Park, Withies Green, Keynsham , Keyford Meadows and Somerton Green, Street.
About Curo
We’re a leading South West housing association with social purpose at our heart. We provide affordable homes and create positive futures in our communities. We’re proud to be among the UK’s top 100 companies to work for, and the 5th best housing association nationwide.
We actively welcome applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBTQ+, from ethnic minority backgrounds, and from our Curo customers.
We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone — if you need any adjustments to help you apply or interview, please contact our recruitment team at [email protected]