Operations Manager
Engineering · Christchurch, New Zealand · Full-Time · $25/hr · Visa: Ask us
Based in Christchurch, this Operations Manager job turns technical expertise into dependable results across multiple New Zealand sites. You would line up crews and resources, keep an eye on how operations are performing, safeguard compliance standards and get hands-on yourself where technical oversight is needed.
Come prepared to discuss the teams and sites you have run, and technical experience that can be checked.
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Key Responsibilities
- Oversee technical operations day to day at each site
- Allocate people and resources to the inspection and compliance programmes already scheduled
- Give a geographically spread technical team firm direction, steady leadership and the same quality, safety and service wherever they work
- Track utilisation, job profitability and work in progress
- Understand what each inspector can do and match every assignment to the right person
- Stay firmly in command of authorised scopes of work and accreditation conditions
- Promote a strong culture of health and safety in the field
- Take personal charge of difficult or escalated client situations
- Go on site and supervise technical work directly when more expertise or capacity is called for
- Partner with technical services, compliance and finance, and map out future capability and resourcing
- Continually improve how operations run, growing the business sustainably while holding technical standards
Requirements & Eligibility
- Experience managing or leading technical or field-based teams
- Practical technical or trade experience, together with a relevant trade, technical or tertiary qualification
- Able to plan and prioritise when the pressure is on
- Commercial understanding of utilisation, job costing, margins and work in progress
- Confident guiding seasoned professionals while keeping expectations clear
- Good understanding of technical scope, authorisation and compliance
- Experience operating under ISO/IEC 17020 or ISO/IEC 17025 is advantageous
- Coming from electricity distribution or a related technical industry is advantageous
- Makes decisions, communicates and solves problems well, and has dealt with client relationships and escalated issues
- A full driver's licence, plus readiness to travel between sites when required
- Must meet applicable New Zealand employment and visa requirements
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