Operations Manager

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A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a talented and engaging Operations Manager, to join our expanding Team covering Buckinghamshire / Northamptonshire area . Danny Sullivan Group is the leading supplier of skilled, professional labour in the UK, and has been serving the civil engineering, rail, transportation, and construction industries since 1986.Key Responsibilities

• Manage the client interface for DSG from prestart stage and throughout the project duration
• Manage your own sites independently with minimal management support
• Take responsibility for all internal DSG Labour Managers
• Basic Business Development activity such as networking and lead passing
• Involvement in annual budget planning

Duties and Responsibilities detailed below:

• Site engagement with supervisors, foremen, works managers upwards
• Site engagement with workers
• Be the link between the recruitment team and the client for resourcing needs
• Resource and recruit alongside the recruitment team to ensure client needs are met
• Ensuring day to day queries are answered and problems are solved from the client and workers
• Ensuring new starters have their relevant site inductions and training organised through the relevant DSG support teams
• Ensuring new starter emails are sent to the onboarding team
• Ensuring new starters have the legal and contractual compliant PPE to be on site
• Ensuring site stores are stocking with DSG PPE
• All finishers and site movers are communicated to the Regional Support Partner
• Coordination and management of site training matrixes as requested by the client
• Reviewing and communicating weekly holiday to site
• Requesting references and checking the suitability of applicants before submitting their details to the client.
• Offering advice to both clients and candidates on pay rates, training, and career progression
• Deliver toolbox and health and safety talks to site where required
• Gathering pipeline of recruitment needs for forward planning purposes
• Maintain a strong company image at all time

Skills

• Full Driving Licence
• Knowledge of the Civil Engineering and Construction industry
• Strong administration
• Effective communicator (Written and Verbal)
• Intermediate MS office skills
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Organisation and Time Management
• Ability to act on initiative and work proactively
• Ability to communicate with all levels of employees within the business
• Discreet and trustworthy being able to deal sensitively and privately with confidential information

Output / Reporting Required

• Project-related documentation (internally and externally)
• Site engagement Reports
• Weekly Diary Report
• Leavers report
• Vehicle allocation report
• Project Budget reporting
• Business development reporting
• Working closely with the labour manager and recruitment department to ensure all Labour requisitions are closed out in timely manner
• Working closely with the Head of operations
• Cross departmental collaboration to improve business communication and performance

Key Communication

• Communicate with all of the operations team and workers
• Meetings include weekly huddles, client specific huddles, client labour meetings, site engagement meetings, meetings with workers, H&S and toolbox talks, client pre-start meetings and internal budget meetings.

About Us
Danny Sullivan Group (DSG) has been the leading supplier of skilled, professional labour to the civil engineering and construction industries since 1986. We are a family-managed business, whose strong family values are at the heart of all we do. This sets us apart from every other organisation.
We are driven by an unrelenting desire to be the first-choice supplier of skilled labour in the civil engineering and construction industries.
With a workforce of over 1,800 employees, working on projects the length and breadth of the UK, we collaborate with our clients to provide temporary and permanent staff as well as professional services solutions within the Aviation, Highways, Nuclear, Rail, Tunnelling and Utilities sectors.

Danny Sullivan Group devotes significant resources to ensure we attract, develop, and retain the brightest talent. Many of our directors started their careers with the Company and are now widely regarded in the industry. We also recruit senior management from leading UK companies to maintain an innovative and national perspective.

If you would like to be part of our collaborative, enthusiastic and forward-thinking culture, then please apply today.
We are committed to, and strongly believe in, inclusiveness and equality of opportunity. Everyone who works with Danny Sullivan Group has a contribution to make; therefore, we welcome applications from different backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. Our aim is to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can be themselves.