Compliance Team Leader

Network Plus; Bolton; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading utility services company in the UK is seeking a Streetworks Compliance Team Lead to ensure operational safety and compliance with legislation. The role involves mentoring a team, managing compliance activities, and ensuring documentation within service level agreements. Ideal candidates will have strong regulatory knowledge, analytical thinking, and excellent communication skills. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Benefits

Full benefits package

Equal Opportunity Employer

Armed Forces-friendly organization

Qualifications

• Strong regulatory knowledge and analytical skills required.
• Proven experience in a compliance-oriented environment.
• Excellent communication skills needed to build relationships.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and manage the performance of the Streetworks Compliance Team.
• Identify non-compliant sites and ensure adherence to legislation.
• Conduct internal checks and perform quality assurance.

Skills

Regulatory knowledge

Analytical thinking

Excellent communication

Problem-solving

Team player

Job description

Description

As the Streetworks Compliance Team Lead, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our operational activities are safe, compliant, and aligned with all relevant legislation and the Safety at Street Works and Road Works Code of Practice. This role requires strong regulatory knowledge, analytical thinking, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while delivering high-quality assurance and documentation within SLA.

Key Responsibilities

• Mentor, support and manage the performance of the Streetworks Compliance Team.
• Communicating / building relationships with client.
• Identifying non‑compliant sites and ensuring safe work and adherence to legislation.
• Ensuring compliance is ongoing with new legislation & Safety at Street Works and Road Works code of practice.
• Documentation is in order and within SLA.
• Reporting, providing updates to compliance status and issues to senior management, gathering data and presenting to NWP and Client.
• Conducting internal checks, tracking non‑compliance, and performing quality assurance, support, and drive improvements.

Experience and Qualifications

• Regulatory knowledge, analytical thinking, excellent communication, integrity, and problem‑solving.
• Deep understanding of legislation and Safety at Street Works and Road Works code of practice.
• Creative and strategic thinking to resolve compliance challenges.
• Building relationships and working collaboratively across departments.
• Managing multiple tasks and deadlines efficiently.
• Industry experience in a compliance environment.
• Good communication and team player able to build networks both internally and externally with experience of managing a team.

Salary and Benefits

We offer a competitive salary based on experience along with a full benefits package.

Network Plus is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

We are Armed Forces‑friendly. We welcome applications from ex‑Armed Forces personnel, reservists, armed forces veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses / partners.

We understand that privacy and the security of your personal information is extremely important. By applying for this role, you agree to the terms of our privacy policy.

About Network Plus

Network Plus is an award‑winning business delivering essential utility and infrastructure services for the UK’s major providers of gas, power, telecoms, transport, water, and wastewater.

We value the variety of experience, perspective, and other points of difference our workforce, clients, and supply chain offer.

We are actively working with colleagues across the Network Plus Group to develop an inclusive environment – we want all our employees to feel valued and included to enable everyone to thrive at work and understand the value of their contribution matters no matter their background, identity, or circumstances.