Operations - Site Manager

Working here is not just a job. You can advance your career at Avove, and we will reward you with a range of benefits that recognise great work. We provide full training and continuous development to help you reach your potential. We strive to create an inclusive working environment where everyone can be themselves. Join us and take the next step towards a fulfilling career.

As a Site Manager you will be responsible for site operations, directing and organising site activities to ensure that planned work is delivered safely and on time.

Due to the nature of the role we are looking for applicants based from the Northwest and Wales

• Ensuring projects are delivered within budget, to programme and safely.
• Ensuring a suitably competent workforce (including subcontractors) is in place to complete all site activities.
• Undertaking site audits and inspections to ensure Health and Safety compliance with relevant legislation.
• Performing quality checks in-line with contract specification
• Demonstrating excellent stakeholder management; collaborating with customers, clients, local authorities and third parties.
• Working closely with the Operational Lead.
• Cultivating open 2-way communication and building trust within the team.
• Setting SMART objectives, producing KPIs and working to deadlines.
• Where applicable, making sure machinery and/or traffic management is booked.

You will have experience working on overhead powerlines / or vegetation management. You will have the ability to decipher and organise staff and machinery power outages. An excellent communicator, you will be a critical thinker and an analytical person. Taking the initiative, you will have the drive to continually improve and overcome setbacks. You will be IT literate and have a good understanding of LV and HV diagrams, including knowledge of naming and labelling. You will use your communication skills to consult with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, using your initiative to make sound judgements and decisions. You may also have coaching experience and the ability to lead and nurture a team.

Full job specific training will be available.

This is an exciting time to join our business in a period of growth! These roles are brand new opportunities and your chance to join a business that values their employees.

We offer a rewarding salary that is tailored to your skills and experience. But that is not all! We celebrate hard work and give recognition to our colleagues. In addition to this, we understand that one size does not fit all so everyone has access to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.

• Company pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Family friendly policies
• A selection of lifestyle benefit options
• Financial wellbeing programme
• Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues.
• We love to give back so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity matched giving where we will boost your fundraising.

We design, build, and maintain the UK's utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better. We provide innovative and sustainable engineering solutions and play a critical role in helping to keep the water running, the lights on and people connected.

We are an expert, responsible and agile partner, providing vital services to water, power, and telecommunications sectors. We collaborate closely with our clients to help protect and improve their assets, enhance customer experience, and protect the natural environment. Everything we do is designed to drive continual improvement and move life forward.

We are proud to work in partnership with leading utility providers, including Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Northern PowerGrid, Northumbrian Water Group, Scottish Power Energy Networks and Scottish Water

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from candidates of all races, genders, disabilities, religions, ages, and sexual orientations. We know that having a diverse workforce encourages new perspectives, inspires creativity, and creates an engaging workplace and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all colleagues can thrive. When it comes to inclusion, we are making sure we keep up the progress with our Communities of Practice, who help us do just that.

We encourage you to apply for this role as soon as you can. We recognise talent waits for no one, so we progress candidates individually through all stages of recruitment process.

If you have any questions, please reach out for an informal discussion.