Operations Manager - 22295
1
South East
Reading
Various
Staff Grade 7
Permanent
Full Time, Part Time/Job Share
Operational Delivery
£58,174
Are you passionate about protecting communities against natural threats and hazards? Do you want to help make our Thames environment a better place? If you want the opportunity to make a tangible difference every day, then this is the role for you.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and inspirational Area Operations Manager to lead the Operations department. You’ll work in a high-freedom environment that makes the people you work with happier; ensures health, safety and wellbeing is an absolute priority; embraces emergent leadership and supports your own development.
Fundamentally, this is a leadership role, and you will be an active member of the Thames Area Leadership Team. You'll be a highly visible leader, able to organise, inspire and motivate people to achieve great outcomes. You’ll play a key role in helping translate our ambition, set out in the Thames Local Outcome Plan, into outcomes and ensure Thames delivers what’s right for our communities, motivates our staff and contributes to EA2025. Above all you'll bring a passion to the role and in return be supported by great people in the Area.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and inspirational Area Operations Manager to lead the Operations department. You’ll work in a high-freedom environment that makes the people you work with happier; ensures health, safety and wellbeing is an absolute priority; embraces emergent leadership and supports your own development.
Fundamentally, this is a leadership role, and you will be an active member of the Thames Area Leadership Team. You'll be a highly visible leader, able to organise, inspire and motivate people to achieve great outcomes. You’ll play a key role in helping translate our ambition, set out in the Thames Local Outcome Plan, into outcomes and ensure Thames delivers what’s right for our communities, motivates our staff and contributes to EA2025. Above all you'll bring a passion to the role and in return be supported by great people in the Area.
You will lead and support our highly skilled and committed Field Operations and Asset Performance teams and Waterways teams, who are responsible for operations and asset delivery in the Thames area.
You will also form an important part of the Area Leadership Team, providing forward thinking and strategic direction across Thames. And you’ll work with colleagues across the organisation through the national Operations Manager network.
You will also form an important part of the Area Leadership Team, providing forward thinking and strategic direction across Thames. And you’ll work with colleagues across the organisation through the national Operations Manager network.
You'll have the following skills, abilities, experience:
• Excellent leadership: we are looking for applicants who believe that providing great leadership is fundamental to our ability to protect people and the environment.
• Health, safety, and wellbeing is non-negotiable: we need someone with an exemplary record in managing health, safety, and wellbeing as well as environmental risk – and we’re looking for someone who does this through leading by example.
• Our people are our strongest asset: we want you to demonstrate a passion for developing people to be their best and creating an open, inclusive, and trusting culture where everyone can be themselves.
• We don’t deliver alone: you’ll have excellent stakeholder (both internal and external) management skills with a strong customer focus and well-honed influencing and persuasion skills.
You'll have practical experience of incident management and a good understanding of civil engineering and/or asset management would be advantageous.
• Excellent leadership: we are looking for applicants who believe that providing great leadership is fundamental to our ability to protect people and the environment.
• Health, safety, and wellbeing is non-negotiable: we need someone with an exemplary record in managing health, safety, and wellbeing as well as environmental risk – and we’re looking for someone who does this through leading by example.
• Our people are our strongest asset: we want you to demonstrate a passion for developing people to be their best and creating an open, inclusive, and trusting culture where everyone can be themselves.
• We don’t deliver alone: you’ll have excellent stakeholder (both internal and external) management skills with a strong customer focus and well-honed influencing and persuasion skills.
You'll have practical experience of incident management and a good understanding of civil engineering and/or asset management would be advantageous.
This role will be based in the Thames area. Travel will be required to other offices, depots and locations which may not be easily accessible via public transport, and so you will need a full UK driving licence.
To discuss any aspect of the role please contact Maria Herlihy, Thames Area Operations Manager, on 07500782453 or by email at maria.herlihy@environment-agency.gov.uk
To discuss any aspect of the role please contact Maria Herlihy, Thames Area Operations Manager, on 07500782453 or by email at maria.herlihy@environment-agency.gov.uk
22/05/2022, 23:55 hours
Basic Check
Leads People
As Operations Manager, you will be responsible for leading a department of between 60-70 people. We’re looking for applicants who can demonstrate how great leadership, is fundamental to our ability to protect people and the environment. In this role you’ll need to employ leadership skills at all levels and use a range of leadership styles to ensure success.
Please describe, using an example, your approach to leading and motivating people?
Please describe, using an example, your approach to leading and motivating people?
Delivers Results Through Others
As a member of the Area Leadership Team you will be committed to developing yourself and those around you, providing a positive role model who is versatile in the way they create an open, inclusive, and trusting culture where people can deliver the best outcomes.
Please give an example of when you have delivered results through others, describing your role and the ‘others’ that you were delivering through? What were the challenges and what did you achieve?
Please give an example of when you have delivered results through others, describing your role and the ‘others’ that you were delivering through? What were the challenges and what did you achieve?
Health Safety & Wellbeing
Part of your role as Operations Manager involves ensuring your teams follow the Environment Agency’s health and safety procedures and policies because they see the value in them and make it everyone’s priority.
Please describe how you would go about this, using an example from a previous role/s?
Please describe how you would go about this, using an example from a previous role/s?
Influences and Persuades Others
Influence and persuasion are critical in this role whether you’re influencing partners on tricky issues, your team on new ways of working or ALT on shifting priorities. Understanding how you influence, as well as being able to do it are fundamental to being able to do this across the range of situations you will come across.
Please give an example of a situation when you have influenced someone in order to help you deliver a better outcome. What challenges did you face? How did you succeed?
Please give an example of a situation when you have influenced someone in order to help you deliver a better outcome. What challenges did you face? How did you succeed?
Diversity
In Thames, we don’t just talk about diversity; we seek it, embrace it and live it, for the benefit of our staff, our communities and the environment. We will need you to be able to demonstrate how you have and will continue to support this approach.
How do you make sure that your team is as inclusive as it can be and is as diverse as possible?
How do you make sure that your team is as inclusive as it can be and is as diverse as possible?
If you are applying from the Civil Service please note that the Environment Agency is not a part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant in the event of being appointed. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.
We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.
We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, is committed to providing value for money and utilises Central Government frameworks and contracts for all external recruitment needs. For this reason, we are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls . Should you wish to become a support supplier on one of these frameworks or contracts please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/become-a-crown-commercial-service-supplier/becoming-a-supplier-through-the-crown-commercial-service-what-you-need-to-know for more information.
We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.
We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, is committed to providing value for money and utilises Central Government frameworks and contracts for all external recruitment needs. For this reason, we are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls . Should you wish to become a support supplier on one of these frameworks or contracts please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/become-a-crown-commercial-service-supplier/becoming-a-supplier-through-the-crown-commercial-service-what-you-need-to-know for more information.
This Vacancy is closed to applications.