Operations Manager

**Operations Manager**

**Salary**: Negotiable - Whilst all salaries are graded, Sembcorp are keen to attract, retain and develop the highest calibre of colleague. Also, the company offer a market leading benefits package and annual bonus.

**Job Purpose**

In alignment with the Key Stakeholder interaction network, fully manage both the operation/s, and operational strategy of an energy recovery facility in an effective and cost-efficient manner.

Implement operational plans to maintain a sustainable business by identifying improvements, technological advancements, facilitate design and operability within the plant design parameters, operational costs constraints, regulatory standards for safety,health and the environment.

**Key Result Areas**
- **Leadership**
- Effectively lead and guide Operational resource, to ensure operational standards are met, and to develop and realise their full potential thus ensuring competence, conformance, continuity, and flexibility across the team.
- Demonstrate authority by conveying consistency of knowledge and experience.
- Promote good working practice and positive employee relations by administering effective relationships internally and with the wider business.
- Support the workforce in periods of change to ensure the transition is implemented and sustained
- Embody the Company Values and exhibit through daily interaction with your team.
- Promote a safety conscious attitude towards work.
- Originate and explore options or opportunities for organic growth.
- **Communication**
- To support the communications with external regulatory bodies.
- Support the communication with Client Contacts.
- Provide information for monthly reports on operational activities and targets
- Participate in monthly Operations Managers and Technical meetings.
- Timely and effective reporting of incidents and events.
- Daily meeting of operational issues and actions
- **Best Practice Implementation**
- Maintain full and up to date knowledge of all relevant technical and quality areas and associated regulations.
- Maintain an up to date knowledge of environmental standards, legislation and relevant technology to ensure that the company complies with best practice.
- Ensure that the physical asset is operated and maintained in accordance with design.
- Ensure the physical asset is optimised through completion of continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure the day to day activities of the business are conducted with consistent methods, processes and satisfactory instruction.
- Support the process of planning daily and shutdown maintenance is carried out in a manner to provide a cost effective solution to the optimal long-term operational life of plant and equipment.
- To support quality control systems are in place for operational and maintenance activities and plant change is conducted in line with agreed management systems.
- To ensure that operational planning of daily activities falls in line with the process of daily planning of maintenance and shutdown activities.
- Closely monitor process parameters to ensure the facility is operating within its design specification
- **People**
- Lead resources to ensure operational standards are met, and to develop and realise their full potential thus ensuring competence, conformance, continuity and flexibility across the team.
- Provide adequate and appropriate Human Resource for effective operation of the facility.
- Training and development of all employees to their full potential, to include development discussions.
- Conformance of Company Policy and Procedures in line with employment legislation.
- Roles and responsibilities conveyed in a clear and consistent manner in line with the SES Strategy
- Manage the Workforce system.
- **Profitability**
- Liaise with the Key Stakeholder interaction network to ensure effective communication, to build and maintain customer relationships.
- Measure performance (business process, revenue, costs, compliance) on a regular basis to benchmark against KPI targets and implement improvement measures to achieve agreed standards.
- Best value cost control, to ensure that all overheads are kept to a minimum and operational resources are used in the most efficient and effective manner.
- Effective management of resource to minimise labour costs.
- Produce and interrogate monthly reports on operational and financial activities
- Reporting of company performance indicators, KPI’s - Local, Divisional, SE, and Financial.
- Maintain regular contact with other departments to ensure that they are aware of production and effluent requirements or risks.
- **Legislative Compliance**
- Maintain an up to date knowledge of environmental standards, legislation and relevant technology to ensure that the company complies with best practice.
- Manage and control of performance of the facility to be fully compliant with regulatory standards for safety, health and environment.
- Ensure effective control of contractors.
- Comply with safety and environmental audit and CAR resolution
- Close scrutiny of process parameters in line with the environmental permit.

**Qualifications**
- A degree level qualification, ort time served in Mechanical / Electrical or Process Engineering.

**Desirable**
- ILM Level 5 in Management or NVQ Level 4.
- Health and Safety Qualification (NEBOSH)