Operations Manager

Chevron Traffic Management; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Job title: Operations Manager

Location: Ringwood

Salary: Highly competitive dependent on skills and experience, with company car allowance and company benefits.

As an Operations Manager, you can expect the benefits from Chevron Traffic Management that come with being an employer of choice:

Benefits:

• Stability and security from Chevron’s long-term contracts, providing guaranteed hours and job security
• Car Allowance
• Largest traffic management company in the UK with 45+ locations and growing
• Part of the Ramudden Global network of infrastructure safety companies
• Industry-leading benefits including
  • Company pension scheme
  • Employee rewards scheme
  • Life assurance with 24/7 GP appointments, free physio and counselling for you and your family*
  • Highly competitive salary
• Access to our Internal Academy and Career Development
• Fill Your Boots Rewards– saving an average of £400 per year
• Toothfairy - Access to free dental advice through an app! Get prescriptions within 24 hours*
• Paid volunteer days
• On-site free parking

General hours of work are 40 hours, Monday to Friday. You will need to be flexible to travel and attend client meetings.

About the role of Operations Manager:

The Operations Manager is a key role in Chevron. It includes overseeing daily operations, optimising processes, managing resources, ensuring quality control, developing strategies and guiding the team towards the organisation's goals. This position holds significant importance within our business and requires a responsive approach. You will be responsible for supervising all regional activities, including the expansion of our client base and the advancement of business initiatives. By penetrating new markets, you will contribute to business growth with both new and existing customers. Building new relationships with potential clients while maintaining strong connections with current customers will be essential for securing repeat business.

In addition to motivating and leading your team, you will ensure the delivery of a first-class service to our customers. It will be your responsibility to provide your workforce with relevant training and ensure they possess the necessary skills and knowledge of all applicable policies and procedures to meet operational demands. This includes effective communication regarding toolbox talks, safety alerts, and other contract methodologies.

You will also oversee the vehicle fleet at your depot, ensuring servicing of defects and promoting the efficient use of vehicles.

Collaboration with colleagues across the organization will be important in establishing best practices and implementing solutions that maximise profitability while adding sustainable value. By embedding management procedures and controls, you will drive productivity and be accountable for achieving the financial targets of the contracts. This will involve regular interactions with the commercial and finance teams and reviewing cost and commercial reports.

Health and Safety is a critical aspect of your role. As the accountable individual for all of the depot's ESG activities, you will ensure that all operations adhere to safe working procedures and that all Health, Safety, Quality, and Environmental policies are effectively implemented.

About you:

A highly motivated and confident individual. Whilst knowledge of the Traffic Management industry is beneficial, we welcome applications from candidates with an Operations, Logistics or Planning background. An excellent communicator and team worker, with experience of successfully identifying and proceeding with new business leads. Adaptable and flexible, you work well in ever-changing situations and in a fast-paced environment. You thrive establishing dynamic working relationships with suppliers, customers and colleagues, forging relationships built on trust and delivery. Communicating ideas to improve efficiencies and enhance margin come naturally as well as offering ideas to aid depot growth and development.

What good looks like for an Operations Manager:

• Full UK Driving Licence
• Experience in the Traffic Management, Construction, Utilities or similar industry
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills, and the ability to build strong working relationships and network with sector stakeholders
• Numeracy skills to manage budgets and bid costings
• Pragmatic and ability to create solutions that meet business needs
• Collaborative in approach
• Proficient in the use of a PC, Microsoft Office software and ability to work with other business management systems and use remote technology
• Local knowledge of the region’s construction and maintenance market, particularly National Highways, local authority highway maintenance and utilities highways works
• Experience leading a team within an operational environment

We would also appreciate it if you have:

• TTME
• Lantra Sector Scheme qualifications (beneficial)
• IOSH Managing Safely/SSSTS/SMSTS or equivalent
• Other formal commercial or business management qualifications
• Competent in the use of TM design CAD software

So, if you want to join a winning team and be part of an innovative organisation which is focused on company growth and employee progression, click on the apply button today.

*Ts & Cs apply

We welcome applications from veterans.

EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AT CHEVRON

Chevron TM believe the skills, capabilities and talents of our people are the key to our success. We benefit enormously from the diversity and variety of our workforce and are fully committed to maintaining and encouraging this diversity.

The richer the mix of people, skills and cultures; the greater the range of inputs, viewpoints and experiences. Because of this, Chevron TM is fully committed to being an equal opportunities employer, defined by its diversity and opposition to all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination.

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