Operations Director (Fire Doors)

360 Recruitment; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

360 Recruitment is recruiting on behalf of a market leader in passive fire protection. They seek an experienced operations director or contract manager to step up and lead site operations across multiple projects, ensuring compliance, safety and on-time delivery.

The role requires strong leadership, proven management of teams and subcontractors, and a proactive approach to securing new work and coordinating budgets, resources and variations with senior management.

Qualifications

• CSCS card/NVQ Level 2 minimum and SMSTS/SSSTS preferred.
• Fire Doors experience is essential with previous management exposure.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills are required.
• Proactive, robust and commercially minded with leadership capability.

Responsibilities

• Regular communication with senior leadership and client stakeholders.
• Ensure health and safety compliance and project scope management.
• Attract new work and respond to tender enquiries.
• Oversee contracts managers and manage staff and subcontractors.
• Coordinate budgets and live job management with MD.
• Support variation processes and stock/shipment coordination.
• Build client relationships and ensure resource adequacy.

Skills

Excellent communication

Highly organised

Assertive and proactive

Robust commercially minded

Flexible and adaptable

Education

CSCS Card/NVQ Level 2

SSSTS/SMSTS

Tools

Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel)

Job description

80,(Apply online only),000 - Chelmsford

We are recruiting on behalf of a market leader within the passive fire/fire protection industry who provide professionally managed, cost effective fire compliant services to a wide range of clients throughout the UK, who are looking to recruit and experience operations director or an experienced contract manager who looking to take the step up who come from a fire background.

They have been one of the most well respected within this highly specialised field for over 30 years' delivering a wide range of 3rd party accredited passive fire protection installation services and continue with year on year growth.

Key Duties of Role:

• Regular communication with the Managing Director and Chairman
• Responsible for Compliance/Scope and Heath and Safety
• Attract new work to the Company
• Responding to tender enquiries
• Overall Operational Responsibility
• Contribute towards marketing, networking and business development
• Oversee the Contracts Managers
• Effectively manage employees and sub-contractors and assist with the performance of their duties where required
• Co-ordinate budgets and assist in the overall management of live jobs with the Managing Director
• Manage Operational side of Variation process
• Oversee Contracts Managers in ensuring all stock is available for each job/site on a daily basis
• Train staff regularly in accordance with our training plan
• Build and maintain client relationships
• Dealing with the Client's needs and resourcing them adequately
• Supervision of the workforce and monitoring quality
• Ordering and delivering stock as necessary
• Monitoring variations and controlling and managing day work
• Other such reasonable duties as instructed by the Managing Director

Qualifications required:

• CSCS Card/NVQ Level 2 (as a minimum)
• SSSTS/SMSTS

Essential Requirements:

• Fire Doors experience is essential
• Previous management experience is essential
• Excellent communication skills
• Computer literate in all Microsoft office applications (Word, Outlook, Excel)
• Highly organised and professional in approach with a keen eye for detail
• Assertive and proactive in thinking and approach
• Robust, committed and commercially minded
• Flexible and able to adapt to the needs of continuously shifting goals

As an Equal Opportunities employer we welcome applications regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or age. All applicants are considered on the basis of their merits and abilities for the job