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Area Operations Manager
August 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Area Operations Manager
Location: Colchester
Contract: Permanent, full time
Responsibilities
In this role, you will be working on our Anglian Water Alliance, where we work on maintaining, repairing, and upgrading the water network.
As Area Operations Manager, you'll drive excellent performance of the IOS Water delivery route in terms of people utilisation, programme and cost performance. You'll develop a team that takes responsibility for projects and limits hand offs between delivery and construction whilst continuously learning and improving processes for our customers.
Your day to day will include:
- Guarantee Construction, Design and Management (CDM) compliance throughout delivery and construction, including regular auditing of sites
- Managing programme budget in conjunction with the Commercial Team, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses
- Accountable for safeguarding water for our customers throughout project delivery by compliance to relevant legislation
Who are we looking for?
This role of Area Operations Manager is great for you if:
- You have demonstrable experience of successful capital scheme delivery in the utility sector
- You have proven leadership skills to empower high performance in your team
- A Full Driving Licence
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk to discuss and arrange these.
Benefits at Kier
We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:
- New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
- A fantastic pension scheme
- A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.
- A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
- Private healthcare
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: www.kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits
Who is Kier?
We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: https://www.kier.co.uk/sustainability/
At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.
Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.
You can see more about our D&I action plan here: https://www.kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf
Closing date: 30 August 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.