Site Supervisor - Metering

Network Plus; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A utility service provider in Stoke-on-Trent seeks a Team Manager for Water Metering Projects. The role involves managing engineers, ensuring health and safety compliance, and delivering exceptional customer service. Candidates should have strong communication skills, experience in utilities, and a full UK driving licence. A competitive salary and benefits package are offered.

Responsibilities

• Organise labour in a cost-effective way, including recruitment and absence management.
• Coach and develop staff to reach their potential.
• Liaise with clients and other stakeholders, providing updates and meeting their requirements.
• Maximise plant and vehicle utilisation while managing resource wastage.
• Conduct health & safety inspections and manage safety matters.

Skills

Computer literate

Experience in Utilities

Financial and commercial awareness

Excellent communication skills

Full UK Driving Licence

Job description

Description

To manage a team of water meter engineers within the Water Metering contract for STW. To ensure a successful delivery of the metering projects within the team, whilst maintaining the highest Customer Service and Health and Safety standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Organise labour in the most cost-effective way, including recruitment and absence management.
• Manage all other resources e.g. materials and plant.
• Coach and develop staff to reach their potential.
• Carry out team briefings with teams.
• Monitor staff performance to specification and working instructions.
• Liaise with the client and other job associated people, including:

1. Arranging and attending programme meetings.
2. Meeting clients’ requirements in a cost-effective way.
3. Giving client progress updates.
4. Meeting councils, surveyors, site managers and client’s staff as required.

• Maximising plant and vehicle utilisation.
• Managing, controlling and reducing wastage of materials.
• Take ownership of overall process – think ahead, determine and implement efficient methods of working.
• Taking care of plant responsibility.
• Liaising with and manage sub-contractors working on the contract. Ensuring at all times that all sub-contractors are working to the Company’s Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality Policy and associated procedures.
• To be a Health & Safety Representative, which will include undertaking health & safety inspections in and around the workplace, raising health & safety related matters with management and investigating reportable accidents or incidents as and when they occur.
• Continuous use of the GARD system, organising works carried out to reduce business cost and ensuring their daily job run is fluid
• Control plant sheets – ensuring accurate information is logged and collated.

Experience and Qualifications

• Computer literate.
• Experience in Utilities.
• Financial and commercial awareness
• Excellent communication skills
• Full UK Driving Licence

Salary and Benefits

We offer a competitive salary based on experience along with a full benefits package.

Network Plus is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

We are Armed Forces-friendly. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, armed forces veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

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About Network Plus

Network Plus is an award-winning business delivering essential utility and infrastructure services for the UK’s major providers of gas, power, telecoms, transport, water, and wastewater.

We value the variety of experience, perspective, and other points of difference our workforce, clients, and supply chain offer.

We are actively working with colleagues across the Network Plus Group to develop an inclusive environment – we want all our employees to feel valued and included to enable everyone to thrive at work and understand the value of their contribution matters no matter their background, identity, or circumstances.