The Role
As the Labour Manager you will report into the Head of Industrial Relations and will be accountable for our client's weekly paid staff that operate on various working rule agreements. You will take the lead on any local resourcing conflicts and ensure the best solution is achieved. The Labour Manager's role is to provide effective management of operative labour, to support the work of multiple projects.
This role is to provide maternity cover on a fixed term, 12 month contract.
Personal Skills
▪ Innovative thinking to support the needs of the operations.
▪ Ability to verbally communicate at all levels of seniority to build rapport, trust and respect.
▪ Resilient and flexible when under pressure and can demonstrate agility in a changing landscape.
▪ Motivated to seek out where improvements can be made and progressive in identifying effective and efficient ways of managing the weekly workforce.
▪ Keen eye for detail and resilient to balance conflicting priorities.
Responsibilities
Labour Forecasting
• Review forecast for all projects weekly ensuring all projects are suitably resourced
• Respond to operational requests for all ad hoc and urgent resource requests
• Take an innovative and proactive approach to long-term workforce forecasting over a 12 month cycle
• Partner the estimating function ensuring all labour considerations are included in tenders and bids
• Attend pre-start la...