Kitchen Installations Manager

Job Description

A high number of candidates may make applications for this position, so make sure to send your CV and application through as soon as possible.

Area Kitchen Installations Manager

25 holiday days + statutory (bank) holidays

Company Car, Fuel Card, Laptop and Phone provided

We are looking for candidates who live within a 15–20 mile radius of Heathrow

We are only able to accept applicants who possess the following:

• Knowledge of kitchen installations and managing people, including subcontractors
• A hands-on approach to management, excellent interpersonal, organisational and time-management skills
• Strong IT and administration experience
• A full UK driving licence

Nice to have but not essential:

• CSCS/HBF/IOSH/SMSTS/SSSTS
• Experience of High-Rise New Build plots
• RAMS/Audits

Role overview:

As the Area Kitchen Installations Manager, you will be fully responsible for overseeing and managing the installation service within the region. Your role will involve delivering exceptional service to clients, coordinating subcontracted fitters to meet demand, ensuring all work adheres to company quality standards, and guaranteeing that project timelines are met.

You will manage a large team of subcontractor fitters, and your responsibility will be to organise this team and to ensure that everything gets fitted on time. Part of your role will include visiting the sites before the kitchens are delivered to ensure that the kitchens will fit properly and to check details such as whether the property has been plastered and is ready for the kitchen to be fitted.

Key responsibilities of the Area Kitchen Installation Manager will include:

• Coordinating kitchen installation teams to meet the demanding quality and service requirements
• Recruiting subcontract labour to provide an adequate fitter capacity, checking face-fit and qualifications
• Ensuring area performance targets are achieved
• Administrative duties in accordance with the role, such as plot-related documentation, photographic evidence
• Reviewing and closing off snags

Company Overview:

Our client is a privately owned manufacturer of fitted kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture within the UK; the organisation has been in operation for over 50 years and experience growth year on year. They have been successful in winning various tenders to supply fitted kitchens for the ongoing refurbishment of Council owned properties throughout the country as well as supplying furniture to major house builders like Barratt’s, David Wilson, Taylor Wimpey and Persimmon Homes. xwzovoh It is in this building division area of the business that our client requires an experienced Area Kitchen Installations Manager to manage the fit of approximately 30-50 Kitchens per week.