Data Engineer
6 Month Contract
Location: Hereford (Onsite 4 days a week)
Rate: £700 - £800 per day (INSIDE IR35)

Skills: Python, Azure, Kubernetes, Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, DV Clearance

We are looking to recruit a DV Cleared Data Engineer for a leading technology consultancy. This will be joining an established defence programme requiring additional engineering support across an existing data platform.

You will be responsible for building, maintaining and improving new and existing data pipelines within a secure MoD environment.

Due to the nature of the work you will be required to work on site in Hereford 4 days a week.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain robust data pipelines using Python
• Work across Azure environments on the low side
• Support data engineering workloads within Kubernetes environments on the high side
• Develop and maintain workflows using Apache Airflow
• Work with Apache Spark for large-scale data processing
• Support the ongoing development and improvement of established data pipelines
• Help ensure data remains within MoD-owned infrastructure in line with data governance requirements
• Work within an existing long-running programme requiring additional delivery capacity

Essential Skills

• Active DV Clearance
• Strong Python data engineering experience
• Experience with Azure
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes
• Experience with Apache Airflow
• Experience with Apache Spark
• Strong background building and maintaining production data pipelines

Desirable

• Previous experience working within a Palantir environment
• Experience delivering data solutions within secure defence or government environments

take ownership of full-stack development using JavaScript, React and Node.js. 

A significant part of the upcoming roadmap involves AWS.

take ownership of full-stack development using JavaScript, React and Node.js. 

A significant part of the upcoming roadmap involves AWS.

3-month Finance Systems Business Analyst contract supporting the integration and optimisation of Salesforce, NetSuite and other enterprise applications (MyCivica). Looking for a strong BA with finance systems/ERP experience, particularly around requirements gathering, process mapping, data flows and systems integration. Ideally someone with Salesforce and/or NetSuite experience who can hit the ground running.

It’s a senior Azure/cloud architecture role sitting across solution design, governance and delivery. You’d act as the technical authority for cloud and infrastructure solutions, reviewing designs, challenging risk/cost/supportability, and making sure solutions are secure, resilient and fit for purpose.

It’s also quite customer-facing and commercially aware — supporting bids and workshops, shaping solutions and SoWs, presenting decisions to senior stakeholders, and helping set the standards and guardrails that engineering teams work to.

Role: Operations Manager  - Building Services Sector/Repairs/Planned Maintenance

Location: Hybrid/Midlands - Home based with Travel within Midlands

Package: up to £75,000, excellent benefits and Bonus

My client are an established and growing Building services company that focus of providing Construction/building/Repairs elated framework services with local authorities, housing associations and commercial clients across the Midlands. From project inception to completion, they are committed to delivering excellence at every stage. 

They are recruiting for an Operations Manager to take ownership of the contracts they deliver in the region: resourcing them properly, keeping them under control, and making sure each one is performing for the client, You own delivery and the people.

The person appointed will have a lot of autonomy, direct access to the owners, and a genuine say in how the operation is set up as it grows.

Duties:

• Running the contracts. Day-to-day control of every contract in your area - responsive repairs, voids, planned works and any larger projects - including the emergency service outside normal hours. Knowing where each contract stands at any point without having to go and ask.
• Resourcing. Making sure each contract has the right trades, supervision and support behind it, and moving people and subcontractors between contracts as the workload shifts. Recruiting ahead of demand so a new contract can mobilise without stripping the ones already running.
• Performance. Hitting the KPIs and SLAs we've agreed on each contract - attendance times, completion within target, first-time fix, resident satisfaction, complaints. Knowing the numbers week to week and dealing with problems before they end up in a client report.
• People. Leading the supervisors, schedulers, admin team, directly employed operatives and subcontractors across the region. Setting standards, dealing with performance issues properly, and keeping good people.
• Commercial. Working hand in hand with the Commercial Manager on cost, margin, variations, valuations and applications for payment. Feeding them accurate information from the ground, and acting on what they feed back. Keeping an eye on productivity, van stock and subcontractor spend.
• Safety and compliance. Health and safety on every job, every day, liaising with our H&S manager. Compliance with CDM,asbestos, gas and electrical regulations, and our own systems. Audits, toolbox talks, near-miss reporting and site inspections that actually happen, on every contract.
• Clients. Being the main operational contact for each client - performance meetings, resident escalations, quality issues. Building the kind of relationships that lead to more work.
• Mobilisation. Taking a lead on getting new contracts up and running: staffing, scheduling, systems, materials, the first few weeks of delivery. We're winning work regularly, so this will be a recurring part of the job rather than a one-off.
• Improvement. Making the operation better over time: how jobs are scheduled

Key Skills:

• Currently doing an Operations Manager, Repairs Manager or Contracts Manager role in responsive maintenance, or ready to step up from a senior supervisor or project lead role in the same field.
   
• Proven experience running framework contracts for housing association or local authority clients, ideally across more than one contract at once. You'll know what good looks like and what the client will pick up on.
   
• A track record of resourcing contracts properly - planning labour ahead, managing subcontractors and keeping control when the workload moves around.
• Managed a mixed team of directly employed trades and subcontractors, and comfortable having difficult conversations when needed.
   
• Commercially switched on - understands margin, variations and what drives cost on a repairs contract, and can work closely with a commercial lead rather than around them.
   
• Strong on health and safety. SMSTS or equivalent, and a working knowledge of the regulations that matter in occupied homes.
• Confident with clients. Can present performance data, explain a problem honestly and agree a way forward.
• Based in or within easy reach of the Midlands, with a full UK driving licence.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with a Tier 1 property services contractor or a large housing association client.
• Trade background, or an HNC/HND in a construction-related discipline.
• Experience mobilising a contract or growing an operation from a small base.
• Experience using job management or scheduling software.

Role: Commercial Manager - Building Services Sector/Repairs/Planned Maintenance

Location: Hybrid/Midlands - Home based with Travel within Midlands

Package: up to £75,000, excellent benefits and Bonus

My client are an established and growing Building services company that focus of providing Construction/building/Repairs elated framework services with local authorities, housing associations and commercial clients across the Midlands. From project inception to completion, they are committed to delivering excellence at every stage. 

They are recruiting for a commercial Manager to take ownership of the finances on every contract they deliver in the region: valuations, applications, variations, cost control, subcontractor accounts and the reporting that tells them whether each contract is actually making what it should. This is a hands-on job in a business that's still building its structure with a growing order book, a set of schedules of rates, and a lot of information that needs pulling together properly. The person they appoint will have real autonomy, direct access to the owners, and the chance to set up the commercial function the way they think it should run.

Duties:

• Owning the contracts commercially. Full commercial ownership of every contract in your area - responsive repairs, voids, planned works and larger projects.
• Valuations and applications. Monthly (or as the contract requires) valuations and applications for payment on every contract,accurate and on time. Chasing certification and payment through, and dealing with disputes before they become a problem
• Variations and pricing. Pricing variations and additional works against the schedule of rates, making sure they're agreed and instructed before the work goes ahead where possible, and recovered where it isn't. Keeping the uninstructed and unrecovered work to a minimum.
• Cost control. Understanding what each contract costs them to deliver (Labour, materials, van stock, subcontractors, plant) and working closely with the Operations Manager on productivity and improving margins.
• Subcontractors. Subcontract orders, valuations, payments and final accounts. Making sure they are being paid for what's been done, and that the terms with subcontractors match the terms with the client.
• Reporting. A clear, honest monthly report to the directors on each contract: turnover, cost, margin, cash position, risks and opportunities. A cost-value reconciliation that people can trust and act on.
• Contract administration. Knowing the contracts signed - terms, payment mechanisms, KPIs with a financial consequence, notice periods, retention. Flagging areas of exposure and making sure obligations are achieved
• Tenders and new contracts. Supporting the directors on pricing new work: reviewing schedules of rates, building up rates where needed, sense-checking tenders against what it costs to deliver. As New work is won, setting it up commercially from day one.
• Building the function. Putting in the processes and systems the commercial function needs

Key Skills:

• Currently a Commercial Manager, Senior Quantity Surveyor or Managing QS in repairs and maintenance, or a strong Quantity Surveyor ready to take on a region in their own right.
• Proven experience on responsive repairs, voids and planned maintenance contracts for housing association or local authority clients. You'll know your way round a schedule of rates, NHF or similar, and how these contracts actually get paid.
   
• A track record of looking after more than one contract at a time and keeping them all under control.
   
• Can produce a cost-value reconciliation and a monthly report that stands up to scrutiny, and explain it in plain terms to people who aren't surveyors.
   
• Experienced with subcontractor accounts from order through to final account.
   
• Comfortable working closely with an operations lead - sharing information both ways, challenging constructively, and backing each other with the client and the directors.
   
• Organised and self-sufficient. Happy setting up processes from a low base rather than inheriting them.
   
• Based in or within easy reach of the Midlands, with a full UK driving licence.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with a Tier 1 property services contractor or a large housing association client.
• A degree or HNC/HND in quantity surveying or a related discipline, or working towards RICS or CIOB membership.
• Experience mobilising a contract commercially or helping a business through a period of growth.
• Familiarity with job management or scheduling software and how commercial data can be pulled from it.

Project Manager
6 Month Contract
Location: UK Remote
Rate: £500 - £600 per day (OUTSIDE IR35)

We are looking for an experienced Contract Project Manager with strong Unit4 ERP project experience to lead two key transformation projects: an HR & Payroll integration and a cloud migration.

This is a hands-on delivery role requiring someone who can take ownership of complex ERP projects, manage senior stakeholders and coordinate cross-functional technical and business teams from planning through to successful delivery.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of a Unit4 HR & Payroll integration project.
• Manage a Unit4 cloud migration project from planning through to implementation.
• Own project plans, timelines, scope, budgets, risks, issues and dependencies.
• Establish and maintain strong project governance and reporting.
• Coordinate internal teams, consultants, suppliers and customer stakeholders.
• Act as the main point of contact for project stakeholders, ensuring clear communication throughout delivery.
• Identify and resolve delivery risks and issues, escalating where required.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope and to agreed quality standards.
• Work closely with PMO and delivery teams to maintain consistent project controls and ways of working.

Key experience required:

• Strong hands-on experience delivering Unit4 ERP projects.
• Previous experience managing ERP integrations and/or cloud migration projects.
• Experience delivering HR and Payroll-related transformation projects would be highly advantageous.
• Proven track record managing complex customer-facing IT or ERP projects.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience managing budgets, project governance, RAID logs and project reporting.
• Comfortable managing multiple workstreams and third-party suppliers.
• PRINCE2 or equivalent project management methodology experience.