Water Treatment Operations Manager – Slough

Future Select Ltd; Slough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water treatment company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Water Treatment Accounts/Operations Manager. The role involves managing staff, liaising with clients, and ensuring compliance with Health & Safety regulations. Applicants should have experience in water treatment and a strong operational background. This is a key position that requires excellent leadership and client-facing skills.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of the water treatment industry and Health & Safety legislation.
• Experience managing projects and contracts.
• Certificate in Health & Safety is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Manage staff and ensure service delivery meets client expectations.
• Liaise with top management and clients regularly.
• Ensure all work is conducted according to procedures and safety legislation.
• Generate new business leads while managing existing accounts.

Skills

People management

Interpersonal skills

Leadership skills

Organizational skills

Client-facing skills

Education

Good formal education background

Job description

Due to on‑growth and current business requirement, this highly successful and dynamic water treatment company with a good turnover and presence is actively seeking the services of a high calibre, self‑driven, commercially focused Water Treatment Accounts/Operations Manager based in the South Central area and will include applications from Slough, Harrow, Reading and the surrounding areas.

Ideally, the applicant must come from a good chemical, technical operational, accounts, sales, contracts, supervisory, and office and management background. Must have good formal education background. An in-depth knowledge of the water treatment industry and the Health & Safety procedures and legislation, holding a certificate in Health & Safety would be beneficial. Must have good organisational, people management, client‑facing, interpersonal and leadership skills. Must have hands on experience on water treatment/water hygiene services. Experience in managing projects and contracts. Must be fully conversant with the Health & Safety Legislation – water treatment/water hygiene.

Key Role

• Majority of the work is office based and rest will be managing staff on site as and when required.
• Liaising with top management and clients.
• Planning and scheduling of works as per company’s contracts.
• Allocation of jobs.
• Delivering services from start to completion.
• Ensuring that all that all work/contract is carried out according to procedures and plan.
• Ensuring that the site staff delivers services effectively and within timeline.
• Getting involved with the Technical team – developing and maintaining the operational procedures and adhering to the Health & Safety procedures with regards to delivering services.
• Running contracts and coordinating – providing quotations and tenders to the highest level.
• Entering information with regards to jobs to be carried out for the clients on database.
• Meeting Key Performance Indicators.
• Generating new business leads whilst still managing existing accounts.
• Getting involved with site audits, appraisals and training of staff as and when required.
• Liaising with the Health & Safety Advisors with regards to safety of workers, auditing and compliance.
• Profits and Loss.

Attributes

• In general, the successful applicant will be articulate, astute and have the aptitude to manage the business effectively and at the same time deliver on good commercial results.

Future Select

Future Select are recruiting in the Water Treatment/Hygiene industry, we work with the best clients & candidates and supply the majority of permanent jobs in the market.

We would be interested in speaking to candidates with experience in any disciplines from Risk Assessors, Service Engineers, Account Managers and Business Development/Operational Managers through to Director level.

We are inundated with applications, we will endeavour to get back in touch, however if you have applied to Future Select and you have not heard from us after a week, on this occasion, you will not have been successful. Your details will be saved on our system and you will be contacted in the future if a vacancy matches your skills.