Engineering Operations Manager
- Stirling
- £65,000-70,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Salary – £65,000 – £70,000 Dependent On Exp
- Annual Bonus 10%
- 33 Days Holiday
- Hybrid Working
- Pension
- Travel Expenses
- Overall responsibility for QHSE in your respective service area, implementing internal and external regulations as required to ensure QHSE compliance
- Displaying Role model behaviours and actively driving safety and safe working practices in your Service area
- Overall responsibility for the financial and commercial performance of your Service area (CSO) including budget planning and performance
- Effectively driving and reporting on KPI’s meeting all reporting requirements
- Overall responsibility for operational performance in the service area
- Managing stock levels and inventory
- Providing leadership to the site teams and effectively delegating to team leads to ensure all work is carried out effectively, safely and to the required standard as well as reviewing and managing team performance
- Recruitment and development of all service employees within the service area including the identification of training and development needs to build and maintain a high-performing team
- Creating and implementing staffing plans for the area
- Analysing operational data to monitor team, individual’s and wind farm performance and act as appropriate to share successes, address shortfalls and make improvements
- Ensuring that quality standards are always met and acting as a role model for quality
- Ensuring a smooth transfer from build phase team to the Service team
- Creating business plans for new service points in case of growth in the area, or needed for relocation due to business development
- Overseeing site safety auditing and reporting
- Ensuring management of site facilities
- Management of large operations (such as gearbox exchange) and improvement initiatives
- Managing customer operational topics and ensuring effective and collaborative communication
- Reviewing reporting from the site: Maintenance, HSE, timekeeping and making sure that reports will be submitted on time
- Checking employee’s time tracking regularly to ensure compliance with Working Time Regulations and submit correct data for payroll purposes
- Working closely and in cooperation with local Project Management
- Working on other initiatives to improve efficiency and competitiveness
- The successful candidate will have experience of working in a leadership role and will have completed an apprenticeship or have relevant experience in a Mechanical or Electrical engineering role.
- You will have a working knowledge in commercial or financial controls and be comfortable with managing financial performance, KPI’s and budgets. A qualification or relevant experience in business management would also be desirable.
- Experience of managing remote field-based teams is essential to this role alongside having the ability to deal with the full spectrum of people management.
- Strong Computer literacy with the able to use MS Office and workload management systems (SAP)
- Experience in dealing with complex businesses, preferably matrix organisations
- A strong customer focused approach
- Excellent decision making, planning and prioritisation skills
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills
- Flexibility and adaptable
- A systematic working approach
- Strong team working, collaboration and delegating approach