Pipelines Operations Manager

Pipelines Operations Manager 
Starting salary from £63,061
Permanent
£6,500 car/cash allowance 
Up to 15% bonus (dependent upon achievement of set targets) 
Located in either Yorkshire, Cumbria, Teeside or Tyne & Wear

We have an exciting vacancy for a Pipelines Operations Manager (OM)?here at NGN.  The OM reports to and closely supports the Business Operations Lead (BOL) with responsibility for their assigned area.

Your key accountabilities and responsibilities will include
•    The number of direct and indirect reports will vary depending on the geographical area typically 15/120
•    As an OM you will support the BOL and work in conjunction with business support roles and planning functions
•    Responsibility for supporting BOL in achieving budget of up to £10-£12 million within allocated region
•    You will be responsible (but not limited to) the specific local end-to-end emergency and repair activities in-line with NGN safety case, HSE and Ofgem regulatory license requirements. You will have additional responsibility for the delivery and compliance of the maintenance work baskets in the specific area
•    Success for this role is supporting the BOL in maintaining and improving customer scores, accurate forecasting and budgets, delivering jobs in line with quoted cost and duration (connections), improving our already exemplary performance in site safety, road traffic collisions, non-lost time injuries, lost time injuries and members of public injuries
•    Along with day-to-day responsibility of the key deliverables, you will continue to personally develop, taking time to reflect on your individual performance and continue to develop your self-awareness in line with the wider aims of citizenship within the business
•    Areas of Influence - You will hold responsibility to the BOL for the effective delivery of all NGN workstreams including, Network Maintenance Mechanical and Capital Projects. You will also play a key part in ensuring a standardised delivery across the network. Build and maintain good working relationships with your counterparts in other areas to ensure commonality of process, and consistency of approach
•    You will be expected to participate in a 24 hour senior manager standby rota

What skills and experience are we looking for
•    Experience within a similar operational leadership role in managing and delivering operational objectives on high pressure pipelines 
•    Experience of compliance requirements for onshore natural gas pipelines ranging in with working knowledge associated policies and procedures. 
•    Experience in asset protection and an understanding of the principles of Cathodic Protection
•    Development of people alongside creating and implementing long-term resource plans
•    Preferable with SCO 1, 2 and 4 competence
•    Preferable Mechanical Maintenance experience 
•    Management of customer and stakeholder relationships, driving to exceed expectations 
•    Excellent communication skills with the ability to energise and gain support from others
•    Solid decision-making skills with the ability to understand and interpret complex data 
•    Capable of managing multi-discipline teams to deliver excellent customer service 
•    Commercial insight with the ability to maximise opportunities, balancing costs and risks alongside sound financial appreciation
•    Results driven with the ability to deliver a step change in performance 
•    Performance leadership by taking appropriate action to address performance issues 
•    Understanding of others with the ability to adopt personal behaviour to get the best from others 
•    360 influencing skills, Stakeholders, Customers, Direct Service Providers, Internal and external contractors with experience of managing Trade Union relations 
•    Open to candid feedback, new perspectives alongside continuous learning and self-development with the ability to present yourself with self-assurance and have presence with the ability to voice views that could be seen as different
•    Full UK driving licence

What we offer you
•    A competitive, starting salary from £63,061
•    £6,500 cash/car allowance 
•    40 hours per week  
•    Up to 15%?bonus (dependent upon achievement of set targets)? 
•    25 days annual leave (plus recognised bank holidays and 2 half days over the Christmas period)? 
•    SSP for first 7 calendar days then occupational sick pay? 
•    A generous stakeholder 5/10 pension scheme? 

We are ... Northern Gas Networks.  We deliver gas to 2.7 million homes and businesses in the North East, Northern Cumbria and much of Yorkshire. That’s around 6.7 million individual customers.  We don’t generate or sell the gas, but we transport it to homes and businesses in our region through a vast network of underground pipes.  In fact, we own and maintain more than 37,000km of gas pipes - enough to stretch from Leeds to Sydney and back again.  We cover large cities like Newcastle, Sunderland, Leeds, York, Hull, and Bradford, and our work extends to rural areas like North Yorkshire and Cumbria.  

Our Values are at the heart of what we do. In addition to your key responsibilities, you will incorporate these into the daily life of your role.  We are … Trailblazing, Empowered, Heartfelt, Community Focused, Intellectually Curious and most of all we are Happy!

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion culture at NGN is embedded in everything that we do. We will be delighted to hear from a diverse range of applicants, so we can continue to grow our great team of people.  We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant, helping ex-services personnel back into employment, as well as being members of WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) and we are committed to delivering our ‘Opportunity Action Plan’ having signed the Social Mobility Pledge campaign, whereby we will establish our business as a ‘force for good’ in the communities that we serve. 

Next Steps.  Please apply by clicking apply and uploading your CV (and a cover letter, if desired). Once the advert has closed, we will be in contact within one week to let you know if you have progressed to the next stage. We are looking to hold interviews for this role throughout June and we look forward to receiving your application for the role.  

If you require adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process, we want to hear about how we can help. Any applicant that requires reasonable adjustments from the initial application through to the interview is asked to contact the Recruitment Team at (url removed)