Operations Manager

ZipRecruiter; Slough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative company as an Operations Manager, where you'll oversee operational aspects and resource allocation for exciting film and TV projects. You'll be part of a collaborative team that values personal development and fosters a culture of inclusivity and respect. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to contribute to sustainable solutions in the broadcast industry while ensuring the highest level of service for clients. Bring your expertise and organizational skills to help shape the future of film and TV services in a supportive and entrepreneurial environment.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Generous benefits package (Pension, Life Assurance, Health Insurance)

Focus on continued personal development

Paid time off for volunteering

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Highly motivated and organized individual with strong attention to detail.
• Experience in the event industry is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage all operational aspects of the business and allocate resources.
• Liaise with customers and ensure projects are resourced correctly.
• Work closely with the transport team to ensure service requirements.

Skills

Organizational Skills

Attention to Detail

Communication Skills

IT Skills (MS Office)

Event Industry Knowledge

Job description

Job Description

Film & TV Services prides itself on being an expert, reliable, supplier of film, television and broadcast energy and lighting solutions.

We have a large fleet of purpose-built truck mounted twin generators and a rapidly growing stock of broadcast specific lighting. With Hybrid trucks and mobile BESS units due to join the fleet this year, it is an exciting time to join our team, as we assist our customers with their drive for sustainable solutions.

Based at our Slough head office, you will join a team focused on ensuring we deliver the very best service to our future and existing customers.

Why Film & TV Services? Here are some of the perks and rewards:

• Competitive Salary
• Generous benefits package (Pension Plan, Life Assurance, Health Insurance, and more).
• A focus on continued personal development
• Paid time off work for volunteering in the community
• Employee Assistance Programme to promote and support a healthier lifestyle.

The purpose of the role:

We are currently looking for an Operations Manager to join our team based in Slough.

In this role you will be working to manage all operational aspects of the business. You will allocate both equipment and labour resources to the projects. Matching the best resource to the correct projects will be key to success in this role. In this role, it will be important to be highly organised, plan ahead, and be a great communicator.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and allocate staff to projects to ensure they are resourced correctly.
• Take customer schedules and transfer all event requests into our schedule.
• Line management of the Operations coordinator and field engineers.
• Managing Staff holidays subject to workload and availability.
• Liaising with customers to confirm their weekly costs for ongoing contractual work.
• Work with project and account managers to ensure any required resources & transport are organized and delivered in line with budget.
• Liaise with 3rd party suppliers for ordering of required plant & equipment including providing purchase orders.
• Ensuring that the warehouse team have equipment lists from the project team in good time for kit to be prepared and loaded.
• Work closely with the Transport team to ensure vehicles meet their service requirements and don’t interrupt the workload at the same time.
• Quoting Ad-Hoc jobs.
• Managing carnet & relevant documents to ensure safe travel abroad when needed.

What we’re looking for:

• A highly motivated and organised individual.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong organisation skills.
• Industry specific experience and technical knowledge desirable.
• Skilled at both collaborating in a team environment and taking ownership of individual tasks when required.
• An awareness or previous working history within the event industry would be an advantage (events or broadcast history).
• Good level of IT skills, to include MS Office suite.
• Available to take business calls out of normal business hours.

Why join Film and TV Services?

We welcome people from different backgrounds and cultures, and respect people’s unique skills, attitudes, and experiences. We encourage everyone to be themselves at work because we know that’s how we do our best, for each other, for our customers, for the communities where we work, and for our careers.

Our culture inspires and unites us to grow, change and deliver the best solutions for our customers. It means that we are:

• Dynamic. Although we’re forty-five years old, it doesn’t feel like it when you work here. There is a lot going on and our entrepreneurial spirit helps us to deliver at pace for customers and each other.
• Experts in what we do. We’re a team of experts who blend our experience and unique expertise to deliver precisely the right solution for customers. Our work is hugely varied; no two days are the same. Because of this, there are always opportunities for motivated people to learn and grow quickly.
• Innovative. We’re curious about how new ideas and technologies can benefit customers and simplify how we work. That’s as true for our fleet, where we’re introducing hybrids and battery storage, as it is for improving the way we work together.
• Together. We’re a team of 60+ people. We might be spread out across the country, but because we’re inclusive and straightforward, and we hold each other to account, we work well together to get things done.

Join us, bring your energy, and grow your career.

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