Head of Operations

Tayside Contracts; Dundee; Hybrid; GBP 112,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in Tayside seeks a Head of Operations to oversee multiple divisions providing essential services. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong leadership and financial acumen, fostering collaborative relationships and driving the organization towards excellence. This permanent, full-time role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to make a significant impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a senior leadership role in a multi-discipline organisation.
• Strong financial and budgetary management skills.
• Degree qualification or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead Construction and Facilities Services Divisions.
• Ensure delivery of services meeting best value and continuous improvement.
• Empower employees and improve performance.

Skills

Leadership

Financial Management

Commercial Skills

Strategic Planning

Stakeholder Engagement

Education

Degree in Engineering, Facilities or Management

Membership of a relevant professional association

Job description

Salary: £111,522 per year

Contract Type: Permanent

Position Type: Full Time

Hours: 37 hours per week

Work From Home: Hybrid

Head of Operations, Tayside Contracts

Head of Operations - £111,522 per annum (pay award pending)

Contracts House, Dundee

Tayside Contracts is the commercial trading arm of Angus, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross Councils. We are the largest and longest-serving local authority shared service in Scotland, employing approximately 2,500 employees serving 420,000 citizens.

We are looking for a highly motivated, inspirational and strategic leader to lead our Construction and Facilities Services Divisions who provide roads maintenance, vehicle maintenance, quarry, cleaning, catering and facilities management services cross the whole of the Tayside region.

Tayside, located in the heart of Scotland, encompasses Angus, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross and offers a magnificent blend of city, rural and coastal living.

As Head of Operations, the successful candidate will have responsibility for ensuring the delivery of a wide range of services ensuring Tayside Contracts meets the requirements of best value and continuous improvements, empowering employees, improving performance, encouraging innovation, and promoting good employee relations through proven experience of working effectively and in partnership with Trade Unions.

We are looking for someone with extensive proven experience in a senior leadership role in a large multi-discipline organisation where working with a board of management or representative stakeholder and senior colleagues is necessary. You will have strong financial and budgetary management skills, a high level of political astuteness and resilience, alongside the ability to apply strong commercial skills to enable the organisation to deliver its objectives within statutory and value for money requirements.

Your ability to form close and productive working relationships within and out with the organisation is key, as is the ability to inspire confidence in others and lead and motivate multiple teams to achieve high and effective performance.

You will be degree qualified in an engineering, facilities or management related subject or have the equivalent experience. You will also be a member of a relevant professional association or body.

Download the Head of Operations - Recruitment Pack

Closing Date Midnight on Friday 25 July 2025

Assessment Centre Thursday 21 August 2025

Interview Thursday 4 September 2025 (TBC)

The recruitment panel will consist of Dougie McKay, Managing Director and members of Tayside Contract's General Purposes Committee.

The Advisers to the panel will be:

· Leanne Reilly, Strategic Lead – HR, IT and Business Support

· Paul Thomson, Executive Director, Corporate Services, Dundee City Council (Proper Officer)

· Maureen Moran, Legal Manager, Dundee City Council (Clerk to the Committee Representative)