General Manager

SOCOTEC UK Ltd; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading materials testing company in Doncaster is seeking an experienced General Manager to lead and develop operations in the North & Scotland. Responsibilities include achieving financial targets, ensuring quality and health standards, and maintaining high test rates. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential. This role offers a competitive salary and a range of benefits including holiday, pension, and employee assistance programs.

Benefits

25 days holiday with opportunity to buy more

Electric car scheme

Employee benefits and discounts app

Enhanced company pension

Employee recognition schemes

Qualifications

• Construction industry background preferred.
• Highly driven and natural leader.
• Strong relevant experience required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the company's business to achieve financial targets.
• Ensure Health & Safety and Quality standards are maintained.
• Maintain test rates at the highest sustainable level.

Skills

Strong relevant experience

Good interpersonal skills

Excellent communication skills

Natural leader

Job description

Are you interested in Materials Testing? This could be your opportunity to excel as a General Manager, as well as playing a vital role in helping our business succeed. We are looking for an experienced General Manager within Materials Testing to lead and develop the North & Scotland operations within the Materials Testing business.

The tasks you will undertake will include (but are not limited to):

• To lead the company's business at the particular locations to achieve financial targets in respect of sales and profits
• Ensuring Health & Safety, Quality, Technical and Commercial standards are maintained at the highest levels across the locations of responsibility
• Ensuring that test rates are maintained at the highest sustainable level

Our Materials Testing team perform an extensive range of testing and compliance services across a wide range of construction projects including highways, rail, airfields, ports and harbours, power stations, sports stadia in addition to new build projects across Industrial, Commercial and Residential properties. A career within our Materials Testing business will provide a varied workload with experiences across many of the key UK Infrastructure assets leaving you with the satisfaction that you have played a part in ensuring the built world around us is safe and stable.

Requirements for the role include:

• Strong relevant experience
• Construction industry background preferred
• Highly driven and natural leader
• Good interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills

Building a safer and more sustainable world is the core mission we set out to achieve at SOCOTEC, it is at the heart of everything that we do. We are committed to acting as a key player in society, investing in innovative solutions to ensure social and environmental concerns are at the forefront of all of our business operations.

As well as a competitive salary, we can offer you a wide range of benefits including 25 days holiday with the opportunity to buy more, an electric car scheme, employee recognition schemes, family friendly support, employee benefits and discounts app, employee assistance programmes, and enhanced company pension. SOCOTEC UK are proud to be Disability Confident accredited.

Why SOCOTEC? Here at SOCOTEC UK, we have over 2,000 colleagues across our divisions delivering world-class services to our customers, we provide an unrivalled range of testing, inspection, and certification services throughout the UK, and we deliver excellence to our customers by recruiting and retaining the very best industry talent. As a General Manager, you will play a pivotal role in providing these services. We offer transversal career pathways as well as linear pathways, and we will support you in attaining a portfolio career in one place. Not to mention the possibility of working locally, nationally, or globally, in the office or remotely. We are committed to your personal and professional development, and you will be supported in every step of your journey with us.