Out of Hours Site Manager

Established in 2013, Sapphire Utility Solutions has quickly become the partner of choice for many clients across the UK in our chosen markets.

We provide award winning services to the clean water, wastewater, gas, multi utilities and the highways sector. We are passionate about working alongside our client's and partners to maintain the utility services essential to modern life throughout the UK.

About the Role:

Based at our Head Office in Bamber Bridge the Out of Hours Site Manager role is to oversee site operations, directing and organising site activities to ensure that the planned work is delivered safely and on time; and monitoring that performance meets recognised standards of productivity, quality and compliance with essential health and safety provisions.

Location: Bamber Bridge

Hours: 60 hours per week (Monday to Friday, 4pm-4am with a 30 minute paid break)

Salary: £17.83 per hour (overtime paid at time and a half)

Responsibilities:

• Carry out daily planning ensuring all shifts are fulfilled and that the correct number of operatives are on shifts and available to complete all necessary works.
• Ensure all planning boards are kept up to date and added to the planning group.
• Produce rota's to allow operatives and managers to understand their shift requirements for each week, ensure these are visible to the management team through Microsoft Teams.
• Ensure all operative Training records and ID Cards are kept up to date. Ensure that any operatives due for renewal have been booked onto the next available courses prior to them expiring.
• Ensuring all Operatives have appropriate vehicles, equipment, stores, and skills to perform allocated work.
• Submit accurate records into the sales sheet for works completed each day, ensuring all information is correct, accurate and within budget.
• Ensure all Timesheets are submitted within the timescales set by payroll
• Manage all day-to-day HR queries ensuring all updates are added to the HR system, and all HR processes and procedures are followed in accordance with the company HR policy.
• Sign and collect all drivers' hours sheets weekly ensuring they are correct and handed into the transport Manager weekly.
• To manage and assess the competencies of all operatives on site through the competency assessment programme.
• To perform weekly fleet and plant checks ensuring fleet, plant and equipment maintenance is carried out and calibrated within the correct timescales.
• Ensure any vehicle or equipment damage and breakdowns are reported to the correct Managers and Department and booked in with the relevant departments using the Hive system.
• Ensuring all operatives driving company vehicles adhere to company policy, where necessary interventions to be carried out to coach or take disciplinary action against offenders that is relevant to the offence committed.
• Ensure all Risk Assessments, Near Misses and Lift and Calibration documents are completed for each job and Vehicle.
• Conduct detailed and thorough site visits, to ensure all the correct data is passed to the scheduling team to plan works in correctly.
• Liaise with the Scheduling team prior to the teams shifts to run through works that have been issued for the evening.
• Ensure all information and updates from the works completed or partially completed for that evening are passed back to the relevant area Site Manager to allow them to feed back to the client.
• Ensure all teams carrying out works are contacting yourself prior to partially completing any works when they are unable to complete the works fully.
• Give direction/advice to the teams to ensure they have done everything possible to complete the works they have been requested to carry out, this applies to all teams including Core nights teams.
• Managing subcontractors who have come onto the contract to carry out works on our behalf.
• Liaise with customers, clients, local authorities and other interested third parties regarding past, present, and future works.
• Perform quality on site assessments checks (x8 Audits per month)
• Oversea site setups of over pumping, Mitigation and Tankering locations in accordance with the company's safe systems of works and Tankering Process.
• Comply with relevant company HSEQ and welfare policy provisions.
• Attend planned managerial meetings and training that maybe required outside your normal working hours.
• Liaise with the Recruitment department where required to notify them of any requirements. To vet potential candidates and carry out detailed interviews for the role applied for.

Experience, Skills and Competencies:

• A valid drivers licence with no more than 6 penalty points
• Proven experience in leading a delivery team with the ability to lead and motivate people.
• Ability to manage a budget.
• Computer Literate
• Must have commercial awareness and understand basic business finance e.g., Capital revenue expenditure, cash-flow, overheads, etc.
• Must be able to communicate professionally and effectively, particularly to external parties such as the client, their customers, and local authorities.
• Must have the skills and confidence to supervise and coordinate site requirements and tasks.
• A desire to solve problems, resolve conflict, arbitrate, and negotiate and make sound judgements and decisions.
• Understanding health and safety legislation.
• In depth knowledge of street works regulations.
• IOSH managing safely.

What you will get in return:

In joining Sapphire Utility Solutions as part of the Lanes Group - the UK's largest independent provider, we are committed to fostering a workplace culture that prioritises the well-being, growth, and safety of our employees. Through continuous training, professional development opportunities, and a supportive environment that values every individual's unique contribution, we empower our team to uphold the highest standards of integrity, collaboration, and inclusivity.

What we offer:

• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Pension
• Death in service
• Company Car - Band 2 or car allowance
• Overtime rate paid at time and a half
• £100 on the anniversary of start date, subject to continuous service
• Healthcare Cash Plan

This position is open to Internal and External candidates. Any internal candidates currently employed within a division of the Lanes Group must complete an Internal Application form and submit to recruitment.

The Lanes Group plc comprises of a range of established service providers subsidiaries, which complement the specialist service of Lanes, by both work type and geography. Increasing our overall capability, assets and offering to our customers.

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We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from under-represented members of the community

Strictly no agencies please