Specialist Surfacing Contracts Manager
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 July 2025 |
| Location: | Kent, TN14 5EL |
| Company: | FM Conway |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ORG1531-MH1329969SevSSCM |
Summary
FM Conway is currently recruiting for a Specialist Surfacing Contracts Manager to join our Surfacing Team! This role is key to ensuring the safe, efficient, and commercially successful delivery of specialist surfacing contracts for both public and private sector clients. As our Specialist Surfacing Contracts Manager, you will be responsible for managing a variety of projects, including spot tenders and long-term frameworks, covering multiple technical disciplines such as road marking, high friction surfacing (hot and cold applied), decorative surfacing, ironwork, PacoPatch, RhinoPatch, and small-to-medium scale conventional asphalt patching and machine lay works. This is a full-time, permanent position based at our head office in Sevenoaks, Kent, working across a range of diverse contracts.
The duties of the Specialist Surfacing Contracts Manager role will include:
-Taking full ownership of multiple contracts, ensuring delivery meets programme, quality, specification, and budget requirements across a variety of contract types
-Planning and coordinating all operational aspects of works, including labour, plant, materials, and programming
-Providing technical oversight across all specialist surfacing disciplines, including road marking, high friction surfacing, decorative surfacing, and patching works
-Leading site safety culture by conducting inspections, audits, and ensuring compliance with HSEQ policies, risk assessments, and method statements
-Managing and supporting the Specialist Surfacing team, including performance reviews, development planning, and promoting FM Conway’s values
-Building strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, maintaining high service levels and representing the company at meetings and engagements
-Collaborating with commercial teams on valuations, payment applications, variations, forecasting, and contract profitability monitoring
-Maintaining accurate project documentation and upholding internal systems related to invoicing, procurement, programming, and compliance tracking
What skills and experience do you need?
We are seeking a skilled Specialist Surfacing Contracts Manager with proven experience in surfacing or highways infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of surfacing techniques, including road marking, high friction surfacing, coloured surfacing, ironwork reinstatement, and asphalt patching. Experience with NEC contracts is preferred. Ideally, you will also hold a valid CSCS card and a SMSTS or SSSTS qualification. As travel to other company locations will be required, a full UK driving licence is essential.
What benefits will you receive?
As our Specialist Surfacing Contracts Manager, we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, life assurance, healthcare, a car allowance, a company bonus, opportunities for internal and external training and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines, and support from our in-house mental health first aiders.
A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Surfacing Division
FM Conway is a business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. As a family business the heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.
FM Conway has 60 years experience of providing highways services in some of the country’s most complex urban environments. Working for both public and private sector clients, we understand what it takes to meet the challenges of the modern road network. Our services encompass all the essential activities needed to keep the UK’s roads in optimum condition. From rapid response pothole repair programming, through to planing and machine lay surfacing and civil construction projects, our teams have the experience, skills and expertise to deliver individually planned projects from inception to completion.
So if you would like to Join our Family as our Specialist Surfacing Contracts Manager then please click ‘apply’ today.
Closing Date: 13/07/2025
FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy
At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.
We look forward to receiving your application!
The duties of the Specialist Surfacing Contracts Manager role will include:
-Taking full ownership of multiple contracts, ensuring delivery meets programme, quality, specification, and budget requirements across a variety of contract types
-Planning and coordinating all operational aspects of works, including labour, plant, materials, and programming
-Providing technical oversight across all specialist surfacing disciplines, including road marking, high friction surfacing, decorative surfacing, and patching works
-Leading site safety culture by conducting inspections, audits, and ensuring compliance with HSEQ policies, risk assessments, and method statements
-Managing and supporting the Specialist Surfacing team, including performance reviews, development planning, and promoting FM Conway’s values
-Building strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, maintaining high service levels and representing the company at meetings and engagements
-Collaborating with commercial teams on valuations, payment applications, variations, forecasting, and contract profitability monitoring
-Maintaining accurate project documentation and upholding internal systems related to invoicing, procurement, programming, and compliance tracking
What skills and experience do you need?
We are seeking a skilled Specialist Surfacing Contracts Manager with proven experience in surfacing or highways infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of surfacing techniques, including road marking, high friction surfacing, coloured surfacing, ironwork reinstatement, and asphalt patching. Experience with NEC contracts is preferred. Ideally, you will also hold a valid CSCS card and a SMSTS or SSSTS qualification. As travel to other company locations will be required, a full UK driving licence is essential.
What benefits will you receive?
As our Specialist Surfacing Contracts Manager, we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, life assurance, healthcare, a car allowance, a company bonus, opportunities for internal and external training and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines, and support from our in-house mental health first aiders.
A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Surfacing Division
FM Conway is a business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. As a family business the heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.
FM Conway has 60 years experience of providing highways services in some of the country’s most complex urban environments. Working for both public and private sector clients, we understand what it takes to meet the challenges of the modern road network. Our services encompass all the essential activities needed to keep the UK’s roads in optimum condition. From rapid response pothole repair programming, through to planing and machine lay surfacing and civil construction projects, our teams have the experience, skills and expertise to deliver individually planned projects from inception to completion.
So if you would like to Join our Family as our Specialist Surfacing Contracts Manager then please click ‘apply’ today.
Closing Date: 13/07/2025
FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy
At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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