Operations Director
Location: Peterborough
Talented people are the key to our success
About us:
Would you like to work for a progressive and ambitious company which is also one of the most successful within the UK construction and infrastructure industry?
Morgan Sindall provides national construction and infrastructure services to private and public sector customers across a comprehensive range of markets. We aim to create great results for our customers, partners and ourselves.
Opportunity:
We have a fantastic opportunity within our Rail & Electrification business for an ambitious and talented Operations Director.
The Operations Director will be responsible for the overall management of projects on behalf of Rail & Electrification, to ensure that projects are delivered to appropriate time, cost and quality targets. The role includes attending relevant business unit meetings and input into pre construction activities and reviewing of tender proposals and selection of staff, recruitment and performance management of operational staff.
Read more about our Rail work here - https://construction.morgansindall.com/rail
The person:
- Previous experience in running Network Rail Operations
- Experience on the East Coast Main Line
We are looking for people who share our passion for the project at hand whilst also being able to work within a fun and hardworking team environment.
The project:
Werrington Grade Separation is a £200m scheme forming part of the East Coast Main Line Connectivity programme. The project intent is to separate a major junction on the ECML by installing a dive under taking freight and local passenger services below the ECML. Morgan Sindall are Network Rail’s delivery partner for GRIP 4-6 Civils and OLE works incorporating piled retaining walls, bored tunnels, steel structures and a box jack. The project is due on site in Summer 2018 with the programme lasting until 2021.
About our Rail & Electrification Team
Our customers benefit from the multi-disciplined service we offer in the high speed and underground rail sectors with expertise covering electrification and civil engineering as well as building capabilities including structures, lineside infrastructure, station enhancements and new build.
Our team consists of more than 275 staff - including safety critical staff certified up to engineering supervisor competence level. We work across the UK and Scotland with offices in London, Ware, Rugby, Stoke and Glasgow.
We are a leading provider of construction and isolation services to the rail industry, offering design and build 25kv overhead line and light rail electrification systems, complemented by our own fleet of specialist rail plant.
Our Electrification team provides services across the UK, with a base in Ware, Hertfordshire supported by a specialist electrification training centre and plant depot at Swynnerton, Staffordshire, and Scotland depot at Larkhall, South Lanarkshire.
Our expertise is focused not only on effective project delivery but also on minimising railway user and environmental disruption through innovative working practices. These include ‘live launch’ bridge construction - where bridges are installed while railways beneath remain operational and ‘offline’ construction and modularisation techniques within stations.
Morgan Sindall is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People ‘Two Ticks’ accreditation. We are also an Investors in People company.
Morgan Sindall is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK.
In the recruitment process all applicants are required to provide the necessary right to work information and documentation.