Field Team Leader

ScottishPower; Middlewich; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy provider in Middlewich is seeking a Field Team Leader to lead a multi-disciplined team ensuring safety and performance standards. You will manage budgets and improve operational efficiencies in a dynamic environment. The ideal candidate should have an engineering qualification and experience in team management. This permanent, full-time role offers a salary of £44,000 - £55,000 along with a comprehensive benefits package including 36 days annual leave and more.

Benefits

36 days annual leave

Holiday purchase option

Share Incentive Plan

Life Assurance (4x salary)

Cycle to Work scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience in team management.
• Strong knowledge of construction and maintenance standards.
• Excellent stakeholder and customer engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach your team to ensure safe working practices.
• Manage budgets and control costs effectively.
• Analyse performance and identify opportunities for improvement.

Skills

Team management

Construction and maintenance standards

Stakeholder engagement

Commercial awareness

Microsoft Office proficiency

Education

SVQ/NVQ engineering qualification or equivalent experience

Job description

Overview

Field Team Leader (Operations and Maintenance)

Location: Middlewich (Cheshire District, SPM)
Working Pattern: Office and site-based, with hybrid working available

Salary: £44,000 - £55,000 + benefits package
Permanent / Full Time

Closing Date: 19th September

At SP Energy Networks, we're investing in the future of energy, and that starts with our people. We're looking for a motivated and forward-thinking Field Team Leader / LV Lead to join our Cheshire District team. Based in Middlewich, this role offers a unique blend of office and site-based work, with hybrid flexibility.

You'll be leading a multi-disciplined team, driving performance and safety standards, and helping us deliver critical outputs across our distribution network. Whether you come from a technical background or bring other relevant industry experience, this is your opportunity to make a real impact in a fast paced, future-focused environment.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and coach your team to ensure safe working practices and high productivity.
• Ensure teams are competent, authorised, and equipped to meet programme needs.
• Analyse performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Manage budgets and control costs effectively.
• Support CI/CML efficiencies and delivery of short- and medium-term plans.
• Take ownership of customer complaints and ensure resolution.

What You'll Bring

• SVQ/NVQ engineering qualification or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience in team management.
• Strong knowledge of construction and maintenance standards.
• Contractor and SLA management experience.
• Excellent stakeholder and customer engagement skills.
• Commercial and regulatory awareness.
• Computer literacy (Microsoft Office suite).
• Willingness to travel to sites in the district as required.

A technical background is advantageous but not essential - if you have other relevant experience in an industrial industry, we'd love to hear from you.

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow.

That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
• Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to nudge' financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network - connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It's a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland's ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we're taking it very seriously.

With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers scottishpower.com .