Contract Manager

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, KOMPAN United KingdomPublished Friday, May 23, 2025
Application deadline : As soon as possible

If you have experience as a Contract Manager in the Play industry and want to become part of a company providing healthier and happier communities across the world, then you might be our new Contract Manager.

We are an ambitious company who have achieved substantial growth in consecutive years and continuing our path of sustained and profitable growth over the coming years thus are looking for enthusiastic, ambitious people to join us and contribute to taking the company forward.

Ensure the best KOMPAN projects to all our clients

As our new Contract Manager, you will be responsible for making sure that KOMPAN projects are planned properly prior to commencement and ensuring quality installation from start to finish. Strong level of cost management is a must, looking at areas within projects that give scope for margin enhancement. You will be the principle point of contact for our clients throughout and work closely with our Project Coordinators who provides back-office support.

Other key responsibilities include:

  • Carry out prestart meetings on every scheme
  • Being involved in handover meetings
  • Provide regular updates to our clients and Project Coordinator
  • Liaise with our Installers and make regular visits to site during the build phase to monitor progress against programme
  • Ensure all deliveries are monitored to meet planned start dates and any issues are communicated as early as possible
  • Ensure all issues or progress visits are photographed and site visit reports are completed and forwarded to the Project Coordinator and our clients within 24 hours
  • Participate in team meetings

This role will be covering part of the South or West England, as there will also be travel to sites and team meetings within the UK.

Experienced Contract Manager within the Play Industry

We are looking for a new colleague with the following profile:

  • Construction related project management experience
  • A Good knowledge of Play equipment
  • A positive approach to all tasks
  • Be able to plan and organize both familiar and new tasks
  • Customer Focused
  • Computer Literate [Microsoft packages - Word/Excel/Project]
  • Competency in customer communication & good telephone manner
  • Able to work on own initiative or with others on tasks with minimum supervision

Furthermore, we are looking for someone with the following qualifications:

  • SMSTS or SSSTS - Site Managers Safety Training Scheme or Site Supervisor level
  • CSCS Black Card
  • NVQ Level 6 in Construction and Site Management
  • RPII Level 2 Certificate

What we offer

  • Private medical insurance after completion of successful probationary period
  • Health cash back plan 
  • Pension Scheme - joined after 3 months
  • Competitive bonus scheme
  • Working within a creative, innovative and experienced team for a company who are a leading design and manufacturer of high quality playground equipment within the UK

KOMPAN - Who are we?

KOMPAN is the global leader in outdoor play and fitness areas. Our purpose is to create healthier and happier communities through play and active living. The KOMPAN Group's main activity is the development, production, and sale of playgrounds, outdoor sports, and fitness facilities. In addition, the company sells service and installation services in connection with product sales.

KOMPAN designs, manufactures, and installs more than 1,000 playgrounds or fitness sites every month somewhere across 90 countries. Of these, 23 countries do so through KOMPAN’s own direct operation and the remainder through carefully selected quality agents and partners. The global head office is in Odense, Denmark. 

The global footprint has expanded significantly over the years, and includes production sites in the Czech Republic, Poland, design studios in Denmark and the Czech Republic, and 23 country offices around the world including Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, and South America. 

Do you want to play with us?

Working for us, you will be part of energetic activities and professional playfulness, where you can share your ideas and develop your career as you help enrich the lives of people of all ages through play and exercise around the globe. And that is a powerful purpose to be part of. 

We work cross-functionally in teams and across cultures in different countries. We believe cultural differences enable us to promote high quality and good results. Yes. It is no secret that we focus on results, but we also appreciate that you bring all of you to work. We are on an exciting growth journey, and you are welcome!

Let’s Play!

Our website is regularly updated with new open opportunities. If you want to play with us in other areas, we will encourage you to regularly keep an eye on our open positions:
https://www.kompan.com/en/int/about/working-at-kompan  
 

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Senior Designer

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, KOMPAN United KingdomPublished Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Application deadline : As soon as possible

KOMPAN is the world’s No. 1 playground supplier. We develop, produce and market an extensive range of playground equipment that covers all age groups. All our playgrounds are designed from the ground up to improve childhood health and learning. And all our products offer compelling design, high play value, uncompromising safety, unique innovation and long-lasting quality. We are a dynamic team of designers creating innovative, imaginative and bespoke play spaces. KOMPAN is a multi-national company and the world’s leader in design and innovation in the outdoor play industry.

Senior Designer for KOMPAN - Milton Keynes

If you are an enthusiastic, committed, and talented designer, and feel motived by the prospect of joining us in providing fun and exercise for happier and healthier communities of the future - then we would like to hear from you!

Senior Designer competencies and experience

  • Experience and Confidence in delivering high value projects (250k+) 
  • Generate significant value of wins 
  • Bring a high level of creativity - generating fresh ideas, themes, imaginative and immersive concepts that make each play space unique and engaging
  • Support the wider design team and team leaders when needed

Key responsibilities

  • Interpret client briefs, site surveys, and tender specs to deliver creative, functional, and cost-effective design solutions
  • Preparation of quotations and tender estimates
  • Liaising with design colleagues, sales team and operations teams
  • Third party quotation management
  • Co-ordinating multiple projects simultaneously
  • Project management to ensure best practices are implemented 
  • Ensure all designs adhere to safety standards, accessibility requirements, and brand guidelines
  • Produce 3D visuals and illustrations/plans for submissions to clients
  • Respond to customer’s dreams and wishes with visionary new designs
  • Ensure efficiency in collaborating with your colleagues through clear communication and hand-over
  • Deliver projects on time and to a high standard

Your profile

  • You have a creative eye
  • You have a design related degree, e.g. product designer, graphic designer, interior design 
  • You are proficient in AutoCAD and have extensive experience in 3D Studio Max and Photoshop
  • Ability to balance creativity with technical accuracy and commercial awareness.
  • A proactive, problem-solving mindset and collaborative approach.
  • You are a team player with an ambition to learn and develop new skills
  • You are a sociable, helpful role model for the design team with a can do attitude and a positive outlook
  • A good communicator
  • Experience leading projects and mentoring team members is a bonus

Become a part of KOMPAN

We offer attractive terms of employment and a position in an international company which is the global leader in its field. KOMPAN is market-leading due to our ambitions and focused strategic efforts. We focus on creating healthier and better lives, so you will be trained in our concepts and knowledge about play value, and how this affects our design. 

KOMPAN is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all to apply.

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Designer

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom , KOMPAN United KingdomPublished Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Application deadline : As soon as possible

KOMPAN is the world’s No. 1 playground supplier. We develop, produce and market an extensive range of playground equipment that covers all age groups. All our playgrounds are designed from the ground up to improve childhood health and learning. And all our products offer compelling design, high play value, uncompromising safety, unique innovation and long-lasting quality. We are a dynamic team of designers creating innovative, imaginative and bespoke play spaces. KOMPAN is a multi-national company and the world’s leader in design and innovation in the outdoor play industry.

If you are an enthusiastic, committed, and talented designer, and feel motived by the prospect of joining us in providing fun and exercise for happier and healthier communities of the future - then we would like to hear from you!
 

Key responsibilities

  • Preparation of quotations and tender estimates
  • Liaising with design colleagues, sales team and operations teams
  • Third party quotation management
  • Co-ordinating multiple projects simultaneously
  • Project management to ensure best practices are implemented 
  • Develop, implement and monitor policies and guidelines for design processes 
  • Reporting to management
  • Produce 3D visuals and illustrations/plans for submissions to clients
  • Respond to customer’s dreams and wishes with visionary new designs
  • Ensure efficiency in collaborating with you colleagues through clear communication and hand-over. 

Your profile

  • You have a creative eye
  • You have a design related degree, e.g. product designer, graphic designer, interior design 
  • You are proficient in AutoCAD and 3D Studio Max and have experience Photoshop
  • You are a team player with an ambition to learn and develop new skills
  • You are sociable, helpful, with a can do attitude and a positive outlook
  • A good communicator
     

We offer attractive terms of employment and a position in an international company which is the global leader in its field. KOMPAN is market-leading due to our ambitions and focused strategic efforts. We focus on creating healthier and better lives, so you will be trained in our concepts and knowledge about play value, and how this affects our design. 

KOMPAN is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all to apply.

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Estimator

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, KOMPAN United KingdomPublished Thursday, March 6, 2025
Application deadline : As soon as possible

KOMPAN’s mission is to help our customers create healthier and happier communities, and we have done so since 1970. We are market leaders in delivering state of the art playground and fitness sites and we design, produce and install more than 1,000 playground and fitness areas each month across 100 countries - that’s an installation every 44 minutes.  KOMPAN is a world leader in the industry. 

Due to further growth and internal promotions we are looking for an Estimator to join our pre-sales team in our Milton Keynes office. The primary role of the Pre-sales function is to assist our Regional and Area Sales Managers.

 

The Role

The primary focus of the role is to be the go to for pricing support to the business, with 2 Sales Support Coordinators as direct reports, tasks include:

  • Provide day to day pricing support to ASM’s, Designers, Sales Support Coordinators and Bid Managers.
  • Ongoing maintenance of our dynamic pricing model for all KOMPAN core equipment.
  • Development and maintenance of our Non-core pricing, liaising with contracts managers, ASM’s and analysing margin dilution to make informed changes.
  • Own our pricing guide book, with new pricing codes, technical specification and detail to set the KOMPAN standard, educating the wider business.
  • Responsibility for our purchasing relationships with third party suppliers, working to get best value, achieve delivery targets and improve quality standards.
  • Value engineering support on BIG quotes and tenders where price is key. The estimator will be key in optimizing pricing to give us a competitive advantage over our pricing matrix on Must Win projects
  • Together with their team or coordinators, the estimator will be responsible for quality checks on orders before they are handed over to contracts are correct, optimised and ready for installation.
  • Review draft terms and conditions proposed by clients, negotiate agreeable terms of contract and arrange for signature and return.

 

To be successful in this role a candidate or employee must demonstrate the following.

Technical Skills

  • Excellent mathematical understanding & competency with pricing software tools
  • Competent & experienced user of ERP/ MRP business systems 
  • Competent in reading and understanding technical CAD drawings to create price elements
  • Competent & experienced Excel user (formula building, V-Lookup etc)

Experience

  • Estimating and pricing of landscape, play or construction works 
  • RFQ to sub-contractor network & supply chain 
  • Forming successful supplier relationships 
  • Price negotiation and cost saving 
  • Good understanding of playground & outdoor sports installation methods and surfacing construction details
  • Experience of working alongside a bid team is an advantage to ensure the competitive and commercial requirements of the business are understood & met
  • Proven capability of multi-tasking and working to multiple fixed deadlines
  • Confident user of Microsoft Word, outlook, excel and ideally AutoCAD.

Personal skills

  • A team player with strong organisational skills, able to collaborate well with others
  • Able to work autonomously, proactively managing personal workload
  • A natural multi-tasker, able to track and manage multiple projects concurrently
  • Strong written & verbal communication skills
  • Is trustworthy and takes responsibility for managing deadlines, planning tasks for self, seeking input from others, checking details and raising anomalies
  • Structured and accurate, especially with data input skills, excellent attention to detail vital
  • Able to learn quickly ‘on the job’ to comprehend and adjust to new and updated information
  • A positive ‘can-do’ problem solving attitude

A professional commitment to excellent customer service

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