Resource Manager

JR United Kingdom; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering services company in Newport is seeking a Staffing Manager to optimize resource allocations across engineering units. You will collaborate with various teams to ensure the right capabilities are in place, while fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. This role offers a blend of hybrid working and the opportunity to impact innovative engineering projects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of successful service delivery and implementation experience.
• Experience of working at management level.
• Knowledge of resource management applications.

Responsibilities

• Manage dynamic allocation of resources across engineering units.
• Ensure capability aligns with demands and address any skills gaps.
• Analyze and report on actual and forecast allocations.

Skills

Resource Management

Collaboration

Data Analysis

Education

Good degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Retain or WHOZ or Pick Your Skills

Job description

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The world leader in engineering services, we bring together a global team of engineers, scientists, and architects to help the world’s most innovative companies unleash their potential. From autonomous cars to life-saving robots, our digital and software technology experts think outside the box as they provide unique R&D and engineering services across all industries. Join us for a career full of opportunities. Where you can make a difference. Where no two days are the same.

About the job you’re considering

We are Capgemini’s Engineering and R&D powerhouse. With the combined strengths of the Capgemini Group, we harness the power of new technology to pioneer Intelligent Industry. We unleash the potential of R&D and innovation to help our clients create smart products, optimize operations, create new customer experiences and deliver new sources of value. Capgemini’s global team of 300,000 people grow our Clients’ capabilities with an unmatched array of skills and a local footprint everywhere on the planet.

Capgemini Engineering is seeking to appoint a Staffing Manager (SM).

The Staffing Manager will work collaboratively to manage the dynamic allocation of resources across a number of engineering units to meet work demands with the aim of maximising resource productivity within the priorities of the engineering units: right capability in the right place at the right time (R3).

The Staffing Manager will need to liaise with the Engineering Unit Managers, Engineers, Talent Acquisition, Sales, Delivery and Procurement to achieve this.

The Staffing Manager will be responsible for optimising allocations of both permanent and contingent engineers within the engineering units they are aligned with.

The Staffing Manager will need to work collaboratively with Staffing Managers across Capgemini Engineering in support of delivering both within their assigned engineering units and across the business

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

• Ensure R3 across a number of Engineering Units.
• Ensure capability supply aligns with demand and if there is a skills gap that actions are in place to address the gap, including up or re-skilling
• Acting as the Business Partner to the Engineering Unit Directors in achieving R3
• Utilise all of the sources of supply to meet demands e.g. internally, recruitment, contingent workforce and off shoring
• Ensure data capture and integrity of allocations, bench, rotation and attrition – including but not limited to within the WHOZ tool.
• Analyse and report on both actual and forecast allocations, attrition and grade pyramids on weekly, monthly and annual windows.
• Maintain pyramids for larger projects to optimise resourcing skills
• Ensure bench time is used effectively
• Ensures CVs for resources are up to date as well as the skills map
• Ensure rotation of resources for diversification of resources’ skills and experiences

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your skills and experience

• A good degree or equivalent experience
• Good understanding of the market and engineering
• 5+ years of successfully delivering and service implementation
• Experience of working at management level
• Experience of successfully delivering complexity in business through the achievement of business and project milestones
• Management of resource risk through the lifecycle of bid and delivery of projects
• A developed understanding of how resources support and enable within an engineering business
• A developed understanding of identifying and enabling through up/re skilling
• Knowledge of RETAIN or WHOZ or Pick Your Skills (Resource Management Applications)

Don’t meet every single requirements? Studies have shown women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks.

There are no nationality or residency restrictions, although if you have resided outside of the UK within the last 3 years, further checks may be required.

There are other criteria and checks required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

What does ‘Get The Future You Want ‘ mean for you?

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements. You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.

To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy. You will reimagine what’s possible: creating value for the world’s leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.