Brett Sharpe

Highly driven construction professional with 16 years of experience across joinery, roofing, building, and project management. Proven ability to lead teams, deliver complex projects, manage budgets and contractual requirements, and maintain exceptional standards of health and safety. Extensive hands-on technical expertise complemented by strong leadership and business management skills.

Experienced in domestic, commercial, and specialist environments including MOD, MOJ, and controlled industrial sites.

Director/Owner at Northwest Single Ply & Building Ltd (2018-08 – Present)

Operate a flat roofing and building company serving commercial and domestic clients.

• Deliver full service works including maintenance, roof repairs, all aspects of joinery, plastering, rendering and full flat roof replacements
• Manage project logistics, workforce planning, budgeting and client communication
• Meeting regularly with clients, third parties and managers to report on progress
• Setting targets, objectives and responsibilities for all supervised staff
• Regularly review timings, budget, labor, risk and project plans to ensure work stays on track
• Reporting to clients and board members on project progress
• Supplying financial records
• Recommending policy and procedure improvements
• Ensuring contractual obligations are fulfilled
• Ensuring the delivery of high-quality work within contract timescales
• Dealing with contract disputes and mitigating the impact of any issues

Contracts Manager at Tego Roofing (2017-08 – 2018-08)

• Managed financial control and monitoring of multiple roofing contracts
• Responsibilities of the Contracts manager included the financial monitoring and control of the contracts, ensuring Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality compliance is maintained and the Company's procedures and objectives are achieved
• Attended meetings with clients to discuss contract points and changes required for projects to move forward
• Provided guidance on organizational requirements for commercial contracting and processes by gathering further information and communicating standard responses to partners
• Making sure projects where completed on time and on budget

Project Manager at Carillion (2016-08 – 2017-08)

• Create tenders for clients
• Make sure all safe systems of work are to a high standard before work commences
• All our works are MOD, MOJ and NOM's contracts
• Resolving any issues on site in the most productive way
• Conducted weekly production and operations contractor meetings, which facilitated stronger communication and the ability to resolve critical issues
• Performed regular job site observations to provide direction for all general contractor personnel
• Determined the project schedule, which included the sequence of all construction activities
• Prepared regular interval progress reports
• Conducted routine quality audits to ensure that work was progressing per the specifications and initiated corrective actions
• Create tender quotations from contractors who are bidding for the work
• Implemented systems to improve process efficiency and reduce the project duration

Foreman at Owlsworth Roofing Ltd (2014-06 – 2016-08)

• To install new flat roofs and manage lads while doing the job, to make sure we have the correct materials so that the job can be finished on time and efficiently
• Speak to site managers and make sure we are agreeing on works being carried out are done to sites health and safety
• Report back to director of company each day
• Coordinated and supervised operatives' activities, allocating tasks and enforcing safety procedures to maintain safety

Industrial Operative- Heysham Powerstation 2 at Logical Personal Solutions (2013-07 – 2013-12)

• Working on the recent outage at Heysham Power Station 2, my role is to make sure that all outside working areas are kept clean, tidy and accessible
• Trained in confined spaces, fire watch and have low and high FME (Foreign Material Exclusion)
• Also have RCA (Radiological Controlled Areas) access, I am C2 trained, with an ability to demonstrate a high level of service
• Assist with car parking duties on busy outage period and any jobs that require my assistance
• Worked in turbine assisting with clean up and also helped on vessel entry in the reactor 8 side
• Also cleaned cooler plates which are made from titanium, these filter out the salt from the sea and they collect muscles and silt
• Manual handling trained, risk assessment trained and harness trained
• I have very good hand skills and can complete any task required of me

Shop Fitter at B Sharpe Contractors (2012-01 – 2013-01)

• All aspects of building work ie rendering, plaster boarding, plastering, roofing, fitting kitchens and bathrooms
• Joinery, fitting of UPVC and Wood windows, skirting boards, doors and architraves
• Ground works ie footings drainage
• Tiling and flooring
• Concreting of driveways
• 1st Fix electrical installation, High Pressure jet washing industrial use
• Single story or double story extention with breeze block or face bricks
• Capable of using 2 tonne digger for footings
• Concreting footings, floors and driveways
• All aspects of 1st and 2nd fix jouinery work
• Fire alarm infrastructure

Sportsbook at Estates (2011-01 – 2012-01)

I have been working within the shop fitting industry for the past 2 years, which has provided me with a wide range of skills in the commercial industry

• This comprises of measuring and installing fully bespoke panelling systems throughout the shops
• First and second fix on electrical installation
• CCTV camera and IT wiring
• Fire alarm infrastructure, provide the hardware setup for PC based tills and servers
• Screen installation including audio running commentary
• Installation of tested software to allow full remote access to the internet

Joiner Apprentice at N B Sharpe Building and Contractor Ltd (2007-01 – 2011-01)

• Served my apprenticeship as a Joiner for 3 years
• Buidling an extension from architect drawings
• All aspects of building work ie rendering, plaster boarding, plastering, roofing, fitting kitchens and bathrooms
• Joinery, fitting of UPVC and Wood windows, skirting boards, doors and architraves
• Ground works ie footings drainage
• Tiling and flooring
• Concreting of driveways
• Erection of steel work

NVQ Level 3 in Site Joinery – Lancaster and Morecambe College (2011 – 2011)

Carpentry and Joinery (Apprenticeship) in Site Carpentry Intermediate Construction Award - Site Carpentry – Lancaster and Morecambe College (2011)

GCSE's – Morecambe High School (2007)