Line Clearance Supervisor

About The Role***

We have a vacancy for Line Clearance Supervisor to join our team to work on this long standing and well established major national utility vegetation management contract.

Reporting directly to the Line Clearance Manager (LCM) you will be responsible for establishing and arranging work within a geographical area.

You will plan your work according to the priority levels instructed by your LCM, maintaining the highest standards of operational services to support the overall, annual contract delivery.

Using your specialist training and expertise, you will evaluate work at job locations and negotiate and plan with the property stakeholders. Liaising closely with your LCM, you will arrange for the work to be completed by staff or sub-contractors.

To encourage individual and team ownership within your LCM’s assigned area, you will assist with the auditing of all completed work.

With availability, you will conduct site assessment surveys to support annual survey, resilience, and similar requirements.

You will promote excellent health and safety practice, supporting the contract to encourage a proactive environment of shared learning.

Learn more about our teams and the excellent development opportunities we have available:
**Main Duties**:

- Evaluate and consent work in your geographical area, ensuring it is planned and completed according to your LCM’s programme.
- The staff or subcontractors available to you should be equipped and motivated to deliver operations to excellent standards of safety, compliance and efficiency. Where they are not, you’ll contact your LCM prior to work starting.
- Support and promote the proactive nature of our work and demonstrate firm leadership when needed.
- Retain responsibility of your work through to completion, so when planning, liaisingclosely with your LCM around forecasted work volumes, costs, and challenges to ensure planned output is met.
- Ensure that work specifications and method statements are fully completed and the selected team to carry out the work are trained and compliant for the tasks.
- During work planning, you will ensure operational procedures, safe working methods and best environmental practices are followed according to customer requirements and Company compliance procedures.
- Ensure all documentation required to carry out work in a compliant manner is available to the work team. If required, you will complete the sections of this, relevant to your role, before site work starts.
- Provide regular tracking updates to your LCM.
- Assist in the auditing of all completed work
- Take opportunities to develop customer relationships that may have future benefits.
- Support your LCM in closing out audit actions according to timescales.
- Make recommendations on improvement or efficiencies.

**To be successful in the role, you will need**:

- Experienced UA5 qualified or equivalent level training (includes Lantra Transmission Surveyor)
- Any relevant industry qualification
- Professional Tree Inspector (PTI) (a mandatory training requirement if not already held)
- Credible track record in Utility Arboriculture
- Ability to communicate both concisely and with professionalism
- Work autonomously, with efficiency and flexibility, according to the work demands
- Be customer focused and happy to work in a front-facing environment
- An awareness on the commercial requirements of the contract and business

**What will you get in return?**
- A pension scheme
- to save for the future - eligibility rules apply
- Access to high street discounts
- Access to low interest loans
- Recognition scheme ‘OCS Stars’- monetary rewards given to top performers
- Training and Development
- apprenticeships, e-learning, English as a Second Language and our award nominated ‘Impact’ Programme
- Long Service Awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- discounted bicycles
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- 24-7 Wellbeing Support
- About Us***

At OCS, we’re a proud bunch of around 20,000 colleagues who put customer service at the heart of everything we do. We are not just a cleaning company; we hire security officers, caterers, landscapers, and engineers to name just a few. Our job and career opportunities are endless for full-time, part-time, and casual positions, in addition to countless internal opportunities for existing colleagues. We are big believers in supporting and investing in our colleagues from their very first day because we know that our people are critical to our business and making sure we deliver for our customers. This is what makes OCS a great place to work.