Trant Engineering Ltd
Labour Manager
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Department: Operations Management/Site Operations Management
Location: Southampton
Description
Join Trant Engineering and help shape the delivery of complex, high-impact projects.
Trant Engineering is a leading EPC contractor with a strong reputation for delivering innovative engineering solutions across the UK and internationally.
We are seeking an experienced Resource Operations Manager to join our delivery team on a major petrochemical refinery project. This is a key operational role responsible for planning, coordinating, and optimising construction resources across multiple projects, ensuring the right people, plant, equipment, and materials are available to deliver work safely, efficiently, and on schedule.
Working in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment, you will play a vital role in maximising productivity, maintaining workforce utilisation, and supporting successful project delivery in a live, high-hazard operating environment.
What You’ll Be Doing
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, mobilisation, and allocation of construction resources across multiple projects and disciplines.
- Develop and maintain workforce plans to meet current and future project demands.
- Coordinate the onboarding, induction, and deployment of direct employees and subcontractor personnel.
- Work collaboratively with project delivery teams to forecast labour requirements and respond to changing priorities.
- Monitor resource utilisation, productivity, and performance, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency.
- Ensure all personnel hold the appropriate competencies, certifications, and site authorisations.
- Support recruitment activities and maintain strong relationships with labour providers and subcontract partners.
- Produce regular resource reports, forecasts, and workforce metrics for senior management.
- Promote a positive safety culture and ensure all resource activities comply with company procedures, client requirements, and statutory regulations.
- Regular client engagement to maintain understanding of requirements to drive productivity in a fast-paced complex environment.
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What We’re Looking For
About You
You are organised and proactive with experience managing construction resources within complex industrial environments. You thrive in a dynamic project setting, can manage competing priorities, and build strong relationships across multidisciplinary teams. You will ideally have:
- Significant experience in construction resource planning or operations management.
- Experience within the petrochemical, oil & gas, refinery, energy, or other major industrial construction sectors.
- Strong understanding of workforce planning, mobilisation, and subcontractor management.
- Knowledge of construction delivery processes and project lifecycles.
- Excellent organisational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience using Microsoft Office and resource planning or project management systems.
- A sound understanding of Health, Safety, Environmental, and Quality (SHEQ) requirements within high-hazard industries.
- Relevant management or construction qualifications (HNC/HND, Degree, or equivalent) are desirable.
- SMSTS or equivalent site management qualification is advantageous.
Why Join Trant?
At Trant Engineering, we deliver complex, high-value engineering and construction projects across the UK. From process and water treatment to energy infrastructure upgrades, we play a key role in delivering and protecting critical national infrastructure – shaping the systems that communities and industries rely on every day.
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Our teams design and deliver full EPC solutions, combining technical excellence with practical, hands-on delivery. We offer end-to-end capabilities – from concept and design through to manufacturing, construction, and commissioning utilising a continually evolving in-house expertise. This means you’ll work on projects that are varied, challenging, and genuinely impactful.
Our multi-disciplinary teams bring together specialists in civil, mechanical, electrical, process, instrumentation, and control & automation engineering, alongside our in-house manufacturing of control panels, MCCs, PLCs, and SCADA systems. With over 1,000 people and a strong, growing pipeline of work, it’s an exciting time to join Trant. We are committed to helping our people succeed through our Career Development Association, providing structured support, mentoring, and clear pathways to help you reach your full potential.
Whether you’re starting out or looking to take your next career step, Trant offers the chance to develop, progress, and make a real difference.
Our company benefits package includes:
- Competitive salary.
- Company car or car allowance (some levels).
- Mentored support within our ‘Career Development Association’, to work towards chartership.
- 24 days holiday (increasing with service) + 8 bank holidays.
- Options to buy additional holiday via salary sacrifice.
- Company Pension Scheme.
- Flexible working based on a ‘core hours’ system.
- 1 x Professional Membership paid annually.
- Hybrid working.
- Employee assistance program.
- Free onsite parking.
- Bike to Work scheme.
- Discretionary annual bonus.
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