At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead lightning protection operations, manage teams, and ensure project success.
- Company: Join Horizon, a market leader in lightning protection and height safety.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, annual leave, and company perks.
- Other info: Hybrid role with a supportive team and exciting projects across the UK.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a dynamic industry with growth opportunities.
- Qualifications: Experience in operational management and knowledge of lightning protection standards.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
Horizon is an established specialist contractor operating within the steeplejack, work at height, and height safety and lightning protection sectors, delivering complex access, maintenance, inspection, and remedial works across the UK. Established in 1993, Horizon is a market leader in the Work at Height & Lightning Protection Industry, undertaking contracts throughout the UK and abroad. The successful candidate would join the management team reporting on a daily basis to the Lightning Protection Technical Director and ultimately the Directors of the business.
About the role:
- Interviewing prospective lightning protection site personnel, verifying candidate competencies to ensure they meet Horizon contract needs.
- Undertaking 3, 6 and 12 monthly employment reviews both in person and remotely, ensuring reviews are genuine and meaningful with achievements and outcomes recorded/planned.
- Holding operatives investigatory and disciplinary meetings with HR.
- Regularly reviewing operatives training and competency certificates, working with the Business Director and Senior Contracts Administrator to ensure training meets client contract requirements.
- Liaising with LC Contracts Manager, Senior Contracts Administrator and Business Director to ensure security vetting for site personnel is carried out prior to contract start date.
- Daily liaison with site teams to ensure contracts are carried out to required timescales and budgets.
- Daily liaison with LC Resource Planner to plan and program contracts.
- Liaison with the LC Contracts Manager regarding contract details, permits to work arranged, road closures, and specialist access required.
- Daily liaison with site teams who may be lone working.
- Dealing with issues affecting site personnel, liaising with HR where required.
- Cascading health, safety, quality and environmental information to site teams via message service.
- Delivery of contract works to timescales and budget.
- Liaising with clients, designers, sub-contractors, and Horizon LC Contract Manager regarding site works, compliance with Building Safety Act or CDM Regs.
- Ensuring all accidents and incidents are reported by LC site personnel in line with company policy, ensuring documentation is completed and submitted in a timely manner.
- Liaising with Warehouse/Material handling team to confirm materials and equipment required for contract.
- Undertaking Tool Box Talks, site audits, client meetings, Teams meetings, and attending safety group and management meetings as required.
- Ensuring compliance with current legislation and guidelines either through direct action or delegation to the Directors.
What you will bring:
- Relevant formal qualifications, knowledge and/or certification to BS 6651 & BS EN 62305 preferred, or extensive and proven high level of operational experience in the Lightning Protection industry in a similar role.
- Current or previous experience in an operational supervisory or management role is preferred.
- Able to manage, motivate and control operational personnel engaged in front line activities.
- Ability to communicate with clients at all levels from technical personnel to senior management.
- Full UK driving license is essential.
- Applicants must be able to lodge in the UK or abroad as required to attend site visits and client meetings.
- Ability to plan LC workloads and labour force, meet goals and objectives in a timely manner while managing multiple deadlines and priorities.
- Good interpersonal skills, oral and written communication skills.
- Able to manage documentation and compliance with reporting requirements associated with HSE.
- Good PC skills are essential with experience of MS Word, Excel & Outlook/Cloud 365 as all operations and business activities are PC based.
What's in it for you:
- Competitive base salary.
- Competitive annual leave.
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