Asbestos Contracts Manager

leicester, england, United Kingdom

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JOB OVERVIEW

Responsible for the operational management of asbestos removal contracts, including (but not limited to) health, safety, quality and financial performance, preparation of tenders,

Implementation of company policies and procedures.

Preparation of site specific HSE ASB5 Notifications, Plans of work and risk assessments.

Ensuring all work carried out complies with Control of Asbestos Regulations and all other regulatory asbestos Legislation.

Main Duties

Plan, evaluate, and improve the efficiency of operational processes and procedures of the business.

To ensure the business complies with all statutory Legislation, any Regulations that are attributed to the business operations and internal procedures. Ensure that all requirements relating to the Companies Asbestos removal license is upheld to ensure ongoing and future accreditation.

Carry out site assessments, collecting information for the formation of plans of works and risk assessments.

Coordinate, monitor and manage asbestos removal activities to the highest standards.

Plan staffing levels, recruit, and interview, select, hire, and employ an appropriate number of employees.

To ensure that the Removal Supervisor and operatives duties and responsibilities are fulfilled and ensure that all operational and legislative resposibilities undertaken by the site teams are fulfilled as per current legislation.

To assist the Compliance Manager in ensuring that all procedures and policies are upheld in accordance with the Company and statutory requirements.

Ensure training requirements for all staff, including H&S, are identified, recorded, reviewed and records maintained in accordance with company procedures.

To establish, maintain and develop effective professional working relationships with clients, staff and other key stakeholders. To help in formulation of business development strategies with the Environmental Services Lead and implement these as instructed.

To produce pre site specific assessments, plans of work, risk assessments & ASB5 notification forms to the current industry standard required prior to any asbestos removal operations taking place.

To work with the Senior Contracts Manager to program asbestos removal workload for the region and identify required labour and supervisory resources, plant and materials in order to ensure all contracts are resourced to optimum levels for the company and productivity is consistently maintained at high level.

To establish, maintain and develop effective professional working relationships with clients, staff and other key stakeholders.

To immediately escalate to the Senior Contracts Manager any issues that arise associated with the day to day operational performance and compliance of the business.

To assist the Senior Contracts Manager in ensuring that all procedures and policies are upheld in accordance with the Company and statutory requirements as well as involved in it's formation.

Identify possible areas of business development to Senior Contracts Manager and provide any necessary support.

Identification of training requirements for removals supervisory and operative workforce staff. Communicate and consult with workforce delivering training and tool box talks as required.

To carry out at least 1 audit per month in line with current MES procedures. Complete any allocated corrective / preventive business actions to satisfactory standard and in required timescale.

Ensure that all job records are readily available, legible and completed appropriately.

Ensure any accidents or incidents are reported within 60 minutes to QHSE team.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

An excellent understanding of current asbestos Regulations and Legislation along with Statutory Regulations and Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental Management.

Possess excellent leadership and motivational skills, with a high level of commercial awareness and aptitude.

Be a good communicator at all levels and ensure service delivery meets or exceeds customer expectations.

Hold a full UK driving licence and passport

Good working knowledge of MES management manuals / systems and implementation of all relevant procedures and policies.

Computer literate with knowledge of software packages such as MS work, Excel and Visio

A minimum of five years experience in the asbestos industry in similar management role and must be experienced in all aspects of asbestos removal and remediation. Knowledge of asbestos surveying would be advantageous

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 68,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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Together our diversity makes us stronger.