Contract Manager

Contract Manager

Location: Derby
Salary: Competitive salary plus excellent benefits
Schedule: 3-month fixed term contract (to be extended) , Part time 20 hours per week

Ready to impact a better future?

As a Contract Manager in our Serco Rail Technical Services team, you’ll lead a talented technical group delivering essential engineering services that help keep rail networks safe, reliable, and fit for the future. Your work will have a direct and positive impact on the communities who depend on rail transport every day.

You’ll guide a team that supports critical contractual requirements, ensuring we provide trusted, high‑quality technical services that create impactful solutions. This is a role where your leadership and expertise help shape better outcomes for colleagues, customers, and the wider rail industry.

What you’ll do as a Contract Manager

You’ll be entrusted to:

• Direct work to ensure we meet all contractual arrangements.
• Create, develop, and maintain skills and capability to deliver on customer requirements.
• Lead and coordinate the activities and strategic direction of your team.
• Govern and maintain local procedures, ensuring they’re fit for purpose and adhered to.
• Manage and maintain associated facilities and equipment.
• Implement and maintain HSEQ (Health, Safety, Environment and Quality) arrangements.
• Drive performance management of individuals using the MyCatch‑up process.

Does this sound like you?

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have…

• At least 5 years’ experience delivering technical projects in the engineering industry.
• Experience of engineering management and leading colleagues in a commercial environment.
• Strong capability and confidence in technical service delivery.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• The ability to work autonomously, make pragmatic decisions, and operate effectively in ambiguity.

As well as checking eligibility to work in the UK, you will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to help us identify and provide any support you may need to undertake the role effectively.

Discover all you need to keep growing
We’re one of the top 1% of international employers, so you can have confidence you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them.

What we offer

• Holidays: 25days plus bank holidays (and the option to buy up to five additional leave days each year)
• Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (including L3 Team Leader and L5 Operations Manager apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
• Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco‑managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
• Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
• Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax‑free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
• Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds.

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.

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At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. As a proud Disability Confident Leader and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard, disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. 

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