M Group Transport
Area Manager
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About the Role
Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
At M Group Highways, we’re supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK.
We don’t just build roads and bridges- we’re building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work.
You’ll be joining our Highways maintenance team in Suffolk, as the UK’s number one highway maintenance contractor, our teams use the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.
What you’ll be doing:
- Day-to-Day Delivery: Manage the day to day delivery of services in line with the contract requirements, to the satisfaction of the client.
- Leadership: Provide training, development, and encouragement to team members to ensure all works are resourced with multi skilled and motivated people.
- Financial Awareness: Understand the financial implications of operational delivery from each work stream. Work with the Commercial team to ensure we operate within the financial limits whilst striving to increase profit.
- KPIs: Use KPIs to assess and address operational delivery of works, and provide practical and innovative solutions to improve performance and client satisfaction.
- Reporting: Report to SMT on the performance, highlighting issues, progress, and areas for improvement.
- Relationships: Work closely with the client and supply chain partner on a daily basis, and collaborate with the communications on customer reports.
- Investigation: Assist in the investigation of insurance claims that have arisen from operational work undertaken.
- Site Inspection: Undertake regular site inspection and visible leadership tours.
- Depot Management: Help keep depots a safe and clean environment through line management of the Stores Person and regular inspections with the client.
- Line Management: Monitor absence, annual leave, and training for team members within your area.
- Recruitment: Support the recruitment team with recruitment processes such as undertaking interviews for new hires.
- Compliance: Work with supply chain partners to review RAMS to ensure compliance, ensuring quality and adherence to benchmarks across all internal and external Operatives.
- Health, Safety, and Wellbeing: Champion health, safety, and wellbeing, pushing the team to strive for continuous improvement.
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What you’ll bring:
- Certifications: CSCS, NRSWA, and SSSTS/SMSTS or previous experience in Highways Maintenance/Construction industry with workforce management.
- Commercial Focus: Commercially focused to identify working cost efficiencies, cost control, and saving money wherever possible for the benefit of Suffolk County Council and M Group Highways.
- Line Management Experience: Essential for this role.
- IT Skills: Skills in a range of software including MS Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel).
- Organisation: Ability to effectively time manage, prioritise workload, and come up with creative solutions to problem-solving.
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, including:
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance, and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave, and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
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In addition, this role offers:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme
- Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Personal Accident Cover
About Us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities, and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice, or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training, and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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