Senior Operations Manager - Metal Mines

TN United Kingdom; Mansfield; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental authority is seeking a Senior Operations Manager to oversee metal mine operations in Mansfield. The role involves financial forecasting, team development, and stakeholder engagement to ensure effective project delivery and environmental outcomes. The position offers hybrid working and a range of benefits, including a generous pension scheme and support for professional development.

Benefits

Pension scheme with 28.97% employer contribution

Values-based recognition scheme

Flexible working patterns

Generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days

Parental leave policy with 26 weeks full pay

Support for professional qualifications

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee discounts

Annual health check

On-site free parking

Qualifications

• Experience in financial planning and stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to lead and develop teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage metal mine water treatment schemes and pollution interventions.
• Ensure effective delivery through financial planning and operational oversight.
• Maintain relationships with stakeholders like the Environment Agency.

Skills

Financial Planning

Stakeholder Engagement

Team Development

Operational Oversight

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Senior Operations Manager - Metal Mines, Mansfield

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Client:

TheCoalAuthority

Location:

Mansfield, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Job Views:

3

Posted:

17.05.2025

Expiry Date:

01.07.2025

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Job Description:

About You
Are you looking for an opportunity to lead complex metal mine operations while making a real impact on environmental resilience?

Do you bring experience in financial planning, stakeholder engagement, and team development — and enjoy working in a fast-paced, evolving environment?

Are you confident in delivering high-quality results, driving performance, and helping to build a strong, capable team around you?

If this sounds like you, we’d love to tell you more…

You’ll take the lead in managing our metal mine water treatment schemes and diffuse pollution interventions, ensuring they’re delivered effectively through thoughtful programme and financial planning, as well as strong operational oversight.

About The Role

A key part of your role will involve accurate financial forecasting and careful budget management, making sure projects are well planned, resourced, and delivered within the financial year.
As the programme continues to grow, you’ll support and develop the DEFRA Operations Manager and Commissioning Engineer — helping to build a confident, capable team through coaching, guidance, and shared learning.

You’ll also play an important role in maintaining positive and productive relationships with key stakeholders such as the Environment Agency, Defra, Natural Resources Wales, and the Welsh Government — ensuring our schemes not only meet but exceed expectations around performance, maintenance, and environmental outcomes.

We don’t expect candidates to meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.

Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)

Schedule:

Application closing date: 1st June 2025
Sifting date: 2nd June 2025
Interviews: w/c 16th June 2025
(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)

Security:
Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.

Unfortunately we are unable to provide sponsorship for our roles.

About Mining Remediation Authority
Our benefits:

• A cutting-edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
• Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
• Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.
• Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
• Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
• Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
• Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
• Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.
• Unlock exclusive employee discounts
• Ensure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.
• Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.

Working with us:
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.

Who we are:
Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.
We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria who are disabled or from a minority ethnic community.

We want to recruit you based on your skills and experience, and not the colour of your skin, where you come from, or who you share your life with. What’s important is that you can carry out your role effectively. That’s why, when you submit your application to us, we remove all your personal data before the hiring manager reviews your details. If you are successful and you join us, you can be confident that this is because we trust that you will be successful and can make a difference. By continuing to improve our diversity, we continue to improve our knowledge and innovation and live our values of being trusted, inclusive and progressive.

If you have the skills and experience that we are looking for, but you require an alternative application form or other reasonable adjustments to apply, let us know. You can get in touch by email at [emailprotected] or give us a call on 01623 637000