Lanes Group

Lanes Group is a leading nationwide utility services provider with c.5000 dedicated employees. Our diverse subsidiaries drive our success across various sectors, contributing to a remarkable turnover of over £650 million. We are committed to excellence and innovation, ensuring we provide industry leading services to our clients and stakeholders. Join us to be part of a dynamic and growing team that values diversity and fosters professional growth.

Department:

Thames Water is the UK's largest water and wastewater company, serving around 16 million customers across London and the Thames Valley. As a trusted delivery partner, Lanes Group plays a vital role in maintaining one of the UK's most critical infrastructure networks, delivering essential wastewater and drainage services that protect communities and the environment.

Purpose of the role:

Due to continued growth and development, we are now looking for customer focused people to join us in our Waste Network Division, working to deliver real and effective solutions to waste-water network and drainage problems. Your responsibilities will cover the following:

Location:

Kidlington Depot.

Job Type:

Permanent, full-time

Hours:

Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week (start times to be discussed at interview)

Salary:

£28,939 per annum

Benefits:

• 24 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Health cash plan
• Onsite parking
• Personal learning
• Auto enrolment pension scheme
• Wellbeing support
• Friendly working environment

Key Responsibilities:

• Submissions of engineer’s hours to Payroll on a weekly and monthly basis by set deadline dates
• Submission of on call rota to payroll
• Managing the administrative duties with regards to engineers’ holiday, including generating reports
• Ensuring the regional calendar and rota are up to date
• Generating sickness reports on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Note taking during investigations and disciplinaries
• Booking engineers required courses and managing and documenting their certificates, ensuring that they are valid and any required training is renewed
• Helping with the uploading of CCTV footage of the completed works for Thames Water to review on BOX
• Looking at the jobs in terms of productivity and pricing up the completed jobs
• When necessary, conducting drug and alcohol tests for the engineers
• Assisting with the interview process for engineers, when required including note taking
• Ensuring the documents in and around the depot are kept up to date (including but not limited to health and safety posters, fire warden and first aider posters, wellbeing posters, etc.)
• Submitting order requests for equipment for the stores, office and tipping
• Requesting PO numbers for order requests and uploading the delivery notes
• Challenging and accepting parking tickets (PCN’s)
• Responsible for stationary management: stationary for the office, PPE, managing any required purchase orders raised by the supplier
• Overseeing the submission and filing of a range of documents to the HR Management System, including but not limited to: New starters, Leavers, Probations, salary, hours and expenses.
• Helping with any administrative duties which are required by the Regional Managers
• Any reasonable ad hoc projects, tasks, duties requested by senior management
• Be aware of Lanes Group policies and your responsibility towards them