Regional Director - Major Projects

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Overall Purpose

The Regional Operations Manager is a leadership role at the heart of the business, reporting to Head of Major Projects, and will be a member of the business's Senior Management Team. In this role you will lead our project management team and work and lead across multiple departments to support the company's productivity and profitability goals. The Role will have overall responsibility for the operational delivery of all projects within their region, including safety, performance and profit and loss efficiencies.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensuring financial targets and other agreed targets are met in all departments.
• Providing technical support and guidance to the project delivery team as required.
• Assisting the Commercial Manager and Legal Managers to prepare project specific contracts.
• Assisting the Buyer/s in the establishment of approved supply chain partners (labour and materials) to ensure cost effective solutions are available to optimise profitability on projects.
• Providing a monthly report to the Head of Major Projects including project progress, key delivery milestone events and project risk.
• Reviewing working procedures to ascertain and apply best industry practice, ensuring continuous monitoring and improvements where required.
• Effectively managing the project delivery team to optimise resource utilisation.
• Keeping employees motivated and organising appropriate training as required.
• Investigate any complaints or issues raised by the customer and implement any closures required.
• Delivering the company values to our customers on each time every time basis.
• Working with department heads and senior management to get the best performance from staff.
• Driving the business to increase performance and profits.
• Reviewing and approving equipment needs.
• Ensure project delivery programme is maintained for each project, ensuring a logical and efficient approach is established, meeting the accepted timescales.
• In conjunction with the HSEQ Officers ensuring all projects are constructed in a safe manner and in compliance with current legislation, client specifications and industry standards.
• Working with PMs, QS and Commercial Department to ensure projects are invoiced as required under agreed milestone payment terms during the construction phase, through to completion.
• Working with PMs and QS to establish monthly Works in Progress (WIP) figures as required.

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Hands-on knowledge of 132kV and 33kV Electrical systems and be able to provide guidance to the Site Team.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project management principles and practices.
• Knowledge and experience in organisational effectiveness and operational management.
• Computer literate and competent in standard office software packages.
• Have excellent commercial awareness.
• A good working knowledge of Health & Safety & Environmental legislation etc and its practical implications in a CDM environment.
• Experience of Project Management on construction projects.
• Previous People Management experience.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle. We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans. When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices! We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie). We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000! Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you. Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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