Operations Manager (Ground Maintenance)

Operations Manager (Ground Maintenance)

You should be Midlands-based, with travel expected to different sites dependent on your location

Highly Competitive Salary + Hybrid Working + Career Progression + Car allowance + Insurances + Pension

Are you an Operations Manager with experience of working in the Ground Maintenance or Landscaping sectors, looking for an exciting new role within a market-leading business, offering the chance to manage an exciting skilled team working with a large defence client and with extensive career progression opportunities?

The business is an industry-leading organization in the fields of Ground Maintenance, Landscaping & Civil Engineering who recognize hard work and dedication and are willing to invest in you, so you can reap in rewards.

The purpose is to be responsible for all contracts within the operational remit, reporting directly to the Operations Director. Taking full profit and loss responsibility for all contracts and activities; ensuring the delivery of first-class levels of service, focusing on achievement of financial targets and driving the development of maintenance business across a number of contracts and locations.

Your Role:

Act as the key contact for senior client officers across all contracts in the area.
Ensure client relationships are developed with integrity at all levels.
Ensure that systems are being fully used at the contract to ensure complete focus on past, present and future of income, expenditure and margin and that contract management are always abreast of their financial position.
Diverse responsibilities including ground maintenance at RAF airfields, sports facilities, high-level expectations, and explosive areas.
Responsible for providing leadership and direction to direct reports.
Focus on compliance across the contract, with the requirements of the Company's integrated management system.
Ensure all direct reports focus on complying with the relevant Health and Safety legislation.
Develop relationships with senior officers in target organisations across the area.
Take proactive action with current clients in relation to additional works or services.Ideal candidates will have the following:

Highly experienced operational manager with track record of successfully managing multiple clients within the ground's maintenance sector.
Experience of managing operations across an area of around £1million plus sales PA.
Specific proven track record of successful contract turns around and of growing a contract.
Business development skills with experience of strategic tendering
First class motivational and management skills
They must be hands on and present as they will be out on-site and have lots of client interaction.
Must be able to pass security clearance up to SC - this means they will need references and must have lived in the UK for 5 years.Excellent opportunity to join an organisation willing to invest in your future! Please send CV for full job description and an informal chat