Water Treatment / Pre-Commissioning Operations Manager

Job Title: Water Treatment / Pre-Commissioning Operations Manager

Location: Bolton, Greater Manchester

Salary/Benefits: 35k - 55k + Training & Benefits

Due to continued company success, our client is seeking a commercially-minded and professional Water Treatment / Pre-Commissioning Operations Manager to oversee established teams and client contracts. The ideal candidate will be able to utilise their robust technical knowledge in order to successfully facilitate business growth and maintain high levels of customer satisfaction. Our client is looking for someone who is a strong communicator, with a proven track record of managing teams of office-based and site staff, who encourages a positive and productive ethos throughout the company. The successful candidate can expect competitive salaries, in addition to comprehensive benefits packages, including: company vehicle, pension scheme and annual leave allowance.

Ideally, we are seeking someone around: Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, Manchester, Hyde, Stockport, Blackburn, Burnley, Chorley, Preston, Wigan, Leigh, St Helens, Ormskirk, Skelmersdale, Prescot, Warrington, Southport, Formby, Bootle, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Frodsham, Hartford, Knutsford, Altrincham, Wilmslow, Macclesfield, Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Halifax.

Experience / Qualifications:

• Experience working as a Water Treatment / Pre-Commissioning Operations Manager
• Excellent industry technical knowledge, including: HTM 0301, ACOP L8 and BSRIA guidelines
• Ideally will hold industry-related qualifications (i.e. City and Guilds (WMSoc) Legionella Risk Assessing and / or CSA Grades)
• Strong communicator
• Proven experience of managing teams
• Good literacy, numeracy and IT skills
• Professional manner

The Role:

• Managing the successful delivery of water treatment and pre-commissioning duties within a successful outfit
• Ensuring works are completed within agreed deadlines and project scopes
• Acting as a key point of contact for colleagues and clients
• Review and give final sign off on technical documents
• Promoting further company growth, following up on warm leads and upselling of services to existing clients
• Using various means to contact and on-board new clients
• Produce detailed RAMS and method statements
• Allocating workloads to ensure efficient service
• Implementing new processess to streamline and improve internal processes
• Conflict resolution and handling complaints
• Support teams with producing quotations and tenders
• Deliver technical training / support to internal teams
• Meeting with new and existing clients on site to discuss contractural needs
• Maintaining personal technical knowledge
• On-boarding and partaking in the recruitment process to grow the department
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients

Future Select are recruiting in the Water Treatment/Hygiene industry; we work with the best clients & candidates and supply the majority of permanent jobs in the market.

We would be interested in speaking to candidates with experience in any disciplines from Risk Assessors, Service Engineers, Account Managers and Business Development/Operational Managers through to Director level.

We are inundated with applications, we will endeavour to get back in touch, however if you have applied to Future Select and you have not heard from us after a week, on this occasion, you will not have been successful. Your details will be saved on our system and you will be contacted in the future if a vacancy matches your skills.

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