An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Operations Director to join our team.  To be considered, you will come from a Civil Engineering background. The Operations Director will be responsible to lead and manage the production operations of multiple projects ensuring delivery of projects to meet or exceed targets and expectations and managing customer relationships through to delivery, retaining the customer following the achievement of expectations.

Key Accountabilities to include but not limited to:

• Manage production outputs of projects including the management of Labour and plant levels across self-delivery projects
• Recruit and retain Labour force across the business, ensuring that sufficient resources are secured to meet the needs of the contracts to deliver effectively
• Line manage and develop Project Managers and other staff within the business
• Lead a group of Project Managers/Site managers to deliver projects safely and to time, cost, quality, and sustainability targets, meeting customer needs, and expectations
• Monitor, plan and control all financial expenditure such that financial targets for profit and margin are fully met
• Ensure all projects are setup to succeed including setting and managing production outputs on projects
• Lead by example to ensure great safety behaviours and a ‘right first time’ quality culture
• Participate in tender reviews, tender handovers, monthly Safety meetings, and monthly CVR project reporting meetings
• Deliver financial performance of those projects to ensure that financial targets and objectives are met or exceeded
• Responsibility to identify risk & opportunity and implement a strategy to deliver financial targets
• Appreciate and understand the commercial implications and drivers within the construction process and incorporate these within decision making working
• Manage the performance and success of customer relationships to ensure customer expectations are managed and achieved to retain customers
• Participate and support work-winning operational activities to the work-winning team to ensure appropriate cognizance is taken of all safety, operational and logistical issues in compiling tender proposals
• Provide support to the proposals team in ensuring that operational components of submissions are produced effectively and reflect the requirements of the project under consideration
• Undertake other duties commensurate with the level of this position
• Comply with Company policies & procedures

Experience/Knowledge:

• Experience in self-delivery project management and managing multiple projects
• Experience in:

• NEC and JCT contracts
• FRC, Groundworks and Earthworks
• Rail, highway, civil engineering
• managing a variety of works with both direct and subcontract workforce

• Strategic acumen is needed to manage performance and ensure success
• Managing teams across the multi-disciplines
• Ability to participate effectively in work winning
• Financial awareness to achieve financial targets and manage risk and opportunity

Skills:

• Ability to engage across all levels and delivers results consistently
• Confidence to lead, influence and communicate with others to deliver targets
• Tackles problems head-on and works to resolve them without delay
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic and learns quickly
• Continually searches for ways to add value and take performance to the next level
• Proactively builds knowledge through sharing ideas and expertise with others
• Clearly communicates ideas, plans, and priorities to others
• Plans and organises work to safely achieve maximum efficiency and output
• Adapts positively to changing business and customer demands

Qualifications:

• 5 Day SMSTS Certificate
• Appropriate CSCS Card
• Valid driving Licence
• Professional qualifications (if any)

Galldris is an Equal Opportunities employer and does not discriminate against any protected characteristic.

For more information or to apply

Email [email protected] with your CV. An informal chat can be arranged to answer any questions that you may have.

For more information on the Galldris Group please visit our website.

About us:

Formed in 1998, Galldris has been around long enough to understand what it takes to master the most complex projects, and we’re young enough to have the extra energy and drive to prove ourselves on every level. We’ll stop at nothing to deliver the best possible job. It’s a powerful combination which has seen Galldris grow at a dynamic rate.

Work With Us and you’ll notice the Galldris difference in everything we do. From the scope and thoroughness of our first planning meeting, to the extraordinary depth of expertise on offer, our irrepressible can-do attitude and the fact that we go the extra mile – every time.

And that approach makes a Real Difference to your project’s outcome.

Please note: We are not using recruitment agencies for this role. In the event of speculative CV submissions, no fees will be applicable.