Description:
Your contributions will help us create new opportunities and possibilities every day – for us, for the country’s infrastructure, and for yourself.
Join our Power team as a Resource Manager and open up new pathways you never dreamt possible!
What you'll be doing
As Resource Manager you will have the following key responsibilities:
- To ensure the effective and timely deployment of resource to all Scotland based operational project teams.
- To support current and future projects for Power T&D in the OHL, Substations and Cabling disciplines, by managing against accurate resourcing schedules that enable strategic resourcing plans to be accomplished in line with the business requirements
- Have full awareness of movements and plans for monthly paid staff and operatives to projects.
- Support development of staff through our tools and processes.
- Ensure Scotland resource demands and requirements are met through detailed resource growth plans.
- Liaise with Power T&D Operational teams and individual Resource Managers to ensure all resource is planned and in place.
- Supporting the movement of resources from project to project.
- Support individual resource managers with engagement of subcontract labour suppliers to plan and meet resource requirements.
- Proactively engage with a wide range of internal stakeholders to ensure that resource needs and planned and met.
- Effectively communicate with individual resource managers & co-ordinators on day to day movements and long term plans to ensure collaboration in resource deployment.
- Ensure all resource deployment is within governance of the Power T&D Business Gated Lifecycle.
- Carry out communications with senior operation leads to ensure compliance against resource requests and needs.
- Engage with our Subcontractors to ensure they have scope of work, durations, volumes and orders in place prior to starting work.
- Be the point of contact for senior operation leads on any resource issues within Scotland.
- Produce and present effective Management Information to show resource related data.
- Manage any individuals within the reporting line to support the facilitation of the above responsibilities.
- Any other duty deemed necessary by line manager
Who we're looking for
Essential Skills Required:
- Excellent planning skills, familiar with project management techniques and applications.
- Strong presentation skills, in creating MI via presentations for exec updates.
- Ability to manage multiple resource managers across multiple disciplines (OHL, Cabling, Substations)
- Ability to gather detailed resource information across Scotland via individual resource managers.
- Ability to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders in both the operations and business support functions.
- Power activity technical knowledge.
- High tolerance for ambiguity and changing priorities and the ability to plan for contingencies and manage conflicting stakeholder priorities.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to consult with wide range of people at different levels
- Must have strong IT Skills, literate in all Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight timescales
- Ability to leverage resources to address business challenges.