Senior Operations Manager
Recruit4staff are proud to be representing their client, a heavy industrial manufacturer, in their search for experienced Senior Operations Manager to work in Birkenhead
For the successful Senior Operations Manager our client is offering:
- £70,000 - £80,000 per annum (Negotiable depending on experience)
- Core working hours 8am-4:30pm Monday to Friday
- Permanent Position
- Annual pay rise
- 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
- 7% Employer pension contribution
- Life Assurance
- BUPA Medical Package
- Learning & Development opportunities
The role - Senior Operations Manager:
- Senior accountable owner for the relationship with customers
- Working with commercial & defence sector contractors
- Negotiating high value commercial contracts & manging the contract upon agreement
- Collaboration and liaison with other Project Managers and members of the senior leadership team.
- Ability to take ownership and accountability of allocated projects to ensure delivery of the technical and financial performance whilst having the backing of a supportive team and working closely with the senior leadership.
- Ensuring design, engineering and stringent quality standards are maintained.
- Accountable for project wide estimating covering all aspects such as technical development, supply chain, risks, variations including additional scope etc.
- Senior representative attending customer meeting cover all project aspects and levels of seniority within the customer organisation.
- Interface conduit for production, technical and quality areas to ensure effective project management, visibility and controls.
- Lead the project team and manage the supply chain to deliver projects to time, meeting cost and quality targets and company standards.
- Represent the company as the project commercial first point of contact .
- Delivering continuous improvement of project management processes and practices.
- Experience of Project Management & Contract Management within a heavy manufacturing / steel fabrication / heavy engineering / ship building environment - ESSENTIAL
- Have a working knowledge of the procedures and processes undertaken in shipyards and knowledge of shipyard trade skills and their scopes of work.
- Proven experience of estimating projects in a heavy engineering environment - ESSENTIAL
- Commercial awareness and experience in working with Customers quantity Surveyors.
- Proven experience of agreeing high value commercial contracts & contract management - ESSENTIAL
- Excellent understanding of commercial finances
- Experience in building and expanding a project team to meet additional demands.
- Experience of defence sector single source contracting and SSRO requirements - BENEFICIAL
- Knowledge of of current legislation relating to the maritime industry - BENEFICIAL
- City & Guilds/NVQ in fabrication or welding or similar mechanical engineering trade - BENEFICIAL
Key skills or similar Job titles: Ship Manager, Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, Operations Manager, Contract Manager, Engineering Manager, Fabrication Manager, Manufacturing Manager, Project Director, Operations Director, Contract Director, Heavy Engineering, Heavy Fabrication, Ship Building, Ship Repair
Commutable From: Liverpool, Widnes, Runcorn, St Helens, Warrington, Birkenhead, Chester, Ellesmere Port, Deeside, Wrexham, Flint, Shotton, Broughton, Mold
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