Area Supervisor

**Description**


**Area Supervisor**

**Location: East Midlands**

**Role Type: Permanent**

**Salary - £35325-£41559 DOE**

**Setting the standards all of our customers will love and others will aspire to**

At Cadent we’re excited to be part of the future of UK energyWe’ve got a clear roadmap that will both drive our performance to the forefront of our industry and support the UK government in achieving their net zero target by 2050.

We’re making a difference through innovation and new ways of working. Together we’re shaping a cleaner, greener future for our 11 million customers who we put at the heart of everything we do.

**About the role**

Responsible for the safe and efficient supervision of Energy Operations direct and contract resources, assets & delivery of workload within a geographical area of the Cadent Network.

**Functional Accountabilities**
- Supervising an effective and highly motivated workforce, driving performance delivering year-on-year cost efficiencies and improvements in productivity and resource utilisation whilst maintaining world-class operational excellence, safety, and customersatisfaction
- Driving performance & productivity of delivery resources and assets (utilizing all sources of MI/Data available)monitoring workforce operational performance to ensure all objectives are met and that problems are anticipated and resolved. Implement PerformanceImprovement Plans where required
- Carry out workplace inspections to demonstrate compliance with the required standards/company procedures
- Manage sickness/absenteeism and performance management procedures for direct reports, to ensure compliance with company policy
- Acts as the public face of Cadent when responding to complaints and enquiries where required.
- Ensure all data is captured accurately and handled/stored to comply with Cadent Policies & Procedures
- Ensure maintenance activities are in full compliance with Safe Control of Operations procedures and CDM requirements
- Manage and control of asset risk and identification of investment opportunity within the network.
- Responsible for engineering compliance of assets
- Responsible for monitoring asset health
- Share, promote and participate /implement technical and procedural best practice
- Accountable for onsite incident supervision and investigation in line with company procedures i.e., Fire, Explosion, Evacuation
- Take ownership of best practice initiatives and implement across the Network area
- Ensure individuals comply with policy and work procedures and achieve company standards of service throughout all activities
- Maintaining competence & assurance of Delivery Resources (internal & directly managed)
- Developing cross-skilled capability of Delivery Resources
- Assurance of Delivery Resources through AQAD
- Responsible for delivery of work stack within the defined SLAs (AMP, Reactive, Projects, Customer Driven)-Manages interface with Customer Operations to support completion of CO work
- Compliant delivery of briefings within the Team
- Take ownership of work delivery schedules from the Technical Support Team ensuring they are technical compliant and meet productivity performance indicators
- Responsible of the delivery of asset health related project work
- Driving quality of data capture
- Ensure full compliance with SCCF process and ensure CDM duties are fully discharged
- Responsible for safe management of external contractors / internal teams onsite undertaking project (including but not limited to briefings, site security, emergency arrangements, competency etc.)
- Driving Process Safety to achieve optimal performance
- Conducting investigations into process safety / asset incidents
- Provide technical advice/problem solving assistance to address faults on assets
- 100% compliance with all legislation, policies & procedures
- Application of project controls, reforecasting, reporting and delivery to plan for all asset health work
- Reporting of asset condition through agreed data capture systems
- Supporting design process as required by portfolio team / IPO
- Enablement of Future Energy Programme
- Financial document creation & completion e.g., T002, T005 & T006
- Participate within the Network Operational Standby rota
- Manage workloads being delivered through the contract framework
- Ensure all activities are compliant with Cyber policy & procedures

**Specialist Accountabilities**
- Manage full G17 process parts A-F for reactive work as appropriate (To be agreed with Portfolio team)
- Responsible for full compliance with Safe Control of Operations (SCO)
- Be accountable for onsite incident supervision and investigation in line with company procedures i.e.,Fire, Explosion, Evacuation.
- Be responsible for the management of the PMAC system within a geographical area, ensuring the system is monitored and alarms dealt with in a timely manner.(If applicable in your areas of control)
- Oversight & delivery of Pipeline Inspection Programme
- Plant Protection oversight
- Responsible for the health of assets with the Network

**About you**

We’re looking for individuals who hold the following skills and experience;
**Qualifications**
- HNC/SNVQ/NVQ or equivalent operational experience in network engineering techniques supported by relevant training or qualifications
- IOSH
- SCO CP & AE

**Practical Experience**
- Min 3-5 years overall experience
- Delivery of engineering projects preferable within the gas industry
- Comprehensive knowledge of and understanding of gas assets and process systems
- Strong knowledge of Gas Distribution’s core processes
- Strong understanding of risk management principles and tools
- Strong understanding of HSE regulations
- Strong understanding of Process Safety Principals
- Strong knowledge of Operations and SCO requiremen