Contracts Officer

Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP

Contracts Officer responsible for overseeing building services contracts at Barnet Council. Ensures compliance and quality across construction, maintenance, and building operations.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £36,585 - £40,182 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Responsible for managing and overseeing building services contracts across the local authority estate, ensuring compliance, value for money and adherence to key performance indicators.
Monitor contractor performance, manage financial and contractual processes and support maintenance, safety, and continuous improvement in collaboration with internal teams and external partners.

Requirements

What you’ll need

To manage and oversee the administration of building services contracts across the Local Authority’s managed estate, ensuring contractors meet statutory, operational, contractual and performance requirements.
Ensure compliance, value for money and high-quality service delivery across mechanical, electrical and maintenance contracts supporting building operations and financial administration, auditing and contract management.
Manage the efficient functioning of the local authority’s construction, maintenance and building services contracts, applying procurement procedures, complying with governance processes and assisting with financial tasks and reporting.
Monitor contractor performance, manage quality assurance processes and review KPI metrics for contractors including coordination of social value commitments.
Support compliance, risk management, financial control, and continuous improvement across building services.
Work closely with the Property Services team, other local authority teams, contractors, and external partners to maintain high standards of safety, compliance, and financial accountability.

Benefits

Comp & perks

31 days annual leave, plus public and bank holidays
Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, which provides a valuable guaranteed income in your retirement together with security for your dependents
Work-life balance options may include hybrid working, flexitime, job share, home working, part-time
A vast range of lifestyle discounts from major retailers, supermarkets, energy suppliers and more
Broad range of payroll benefits including cycle to work, eye care vouchers, travel and gym membership
Excellent training and development opportunities
Employee well- being training programs including confidential employee assistance

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Hard Skills & Tools

contract managementfinancial administrationauditingprocurement proceduresquality assuranceKPI metricsrisk managementcontinuous improvementbuilding servicesmechanical and electrical maintenance

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationoversightmonitoringperformance managementproblem-solvingorganizational skillsattention to detailleadershipstakeholder engagement