Area Operations Manager

Job Title: Area Operations Manager
Location: Any major location within Scotland or the Northeast
Salary: DOE
Hours: Full Time Permanent
 
Our client is the largest provider of industrial, medical and special gases in the UK and Ireland. From cutting harmful emissions, to providing life-saving oxygen and keeping food fresh, their gases play an essential role in everyday life. Their values – Safety, Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion and Community are at the heart of everything they do. They help create an environment that puts safety first, where people do things the right way, new ideas are welcomed and everyone can be themselves.

Our client takes pride in their people and work hard to provide an enriching, enjoyable place to work. They have a clear vision: to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay and excel.
 
Responsibilities

• In this role, you will lead the Customer Engineering Services (CES) team within the Scotland and Northeast England, managing them to the required levels of safety, efficiency and cost effectiveness.
• You will manage CES projects, maintenance and service activities on both our assets and 3rd party contracted equipment in accordance with Linde safety targets, Service level agreements and budgets.
• This role works to and delivers against agreed performance key performance indicators.
• Develop and implement appropriate corrective action plans to ensure that set key performance indicators are achieved and exceeded.
• In addition, you will continuously develop, lead, implement and deliver efficiency improvements in the CES team and support similar initiatives within the CES UK & Northern Ireland teams and the wider Linde organisation. 
• You will collaborate with and support our colleagues in Sales to help achieve our growth targets.
• Lastly, this is a key role which will help contribute to the strategic development of our Customer Engineering Services team.

 
Experience

• You have a degree in an Engineering discipline, with working experience in a similar industrial environment including people and maintenance management, and or project engineering.
• Or alternatively, you possess an HNC/HND in an appropriate trade, and you have already gained a wealth of experience in a similar industry such as field maintenance and or project engineering.
• You have excellent communication skills in order to be able to build and maintain positive relationships both internally and externally.
• In addition, you hold a UK driving licence in order to be able to travel to and from sites.
• You are familiar with and have relevant experience of using an electronic maintenance management system e.g. SAP or something similar.
• Lastly, you work with integrity aligned to our values and of being a safe and inclusive workplace.

 
Benefits

• Pension and life assurance as standard.
• 25 days paid leave and a range of other flexible leave benefits.
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