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| Type: | Full Time |
| Required Skills: | Educated to Degree level or equivalent through experience. |
Do you have what it takes to lead a diverse team of Engineers, Technicians and Support colleagues; to provide the Ports of Jersey with the Engineering capability and service provision required to meet our customers and our Island’s needs?
We are looking for a Head of Engineering who can:
• Provide strong leadership, embed efficient ways of working and create a place where the team are empowered with rewarding roles.
• Embed a shift from reactive to proactive support, acting as trusted business partners to ensure delivery of service.
• Drive asset strategy and optimise the cost-of-service provision through value, budget, supplier and resource management.
• Ensure Engineering services meet compliance requirements, with quality being a key deliverable.
• Make informed, risk based decisions ensuring prioritisation, with a focus on resilience.
Our Engineering department provides a safe, effective, and value-added technical service for customers and stakeholders delivered by a team of professionals, empowered to manage our assets through their lifecycles with reliable and sustainable solutions.
The Head of Engineering provides strategic leadership to a high-performing team whilst developing the operating model, incorporating core functions such as strategy and development, assurance and compliance, operations, along with planning, design, and optimisation.
Key Responsibilities
• Provide strong leadership to a multi-disciplined team of engineers and technicians, embedding efficient ways of working and creating a workplace where colleagues are empowered with rewarding roles.
• Ensure the delivery of planned and reactive maintenance delivers the best outcomes for stakeholders and customers in terms of quality and efficiency.
• Develop strategic business relationships with customers, stakeholders and colleagues to build a robust asset management strategy.
• Overall accountability for ensuring that the services and operations provided by Engineering meet regulatory requirements, budgets and policies and procedures.
• Undertake strategic workforce planning to ensure adequate talent management, succession plans and changes in resource meet future business needs.
• Drive the asset strategy by optimising the cost-of-service provision through value, budget, supplier and resource management.
• Continually research, develop and review new efficient ways of working, including driving performance and recommending digital and technology solutions.
• Lead individual and team engagement, developing talent, including leadership qualities, to help the team continually perform and improve.
• Make informed, risk-based decisions with a focus on prioritisation and resilience.
• Contribute to the Ports of Jersey strategic business plan and ensure the Engineering departments objectives align with the wider strategy.
• Accountability for the Health and Safety culture across the team by ensuring safe working practices and maintaining a safe and secure environment for all employees, contractors, and stakeholders.
Qualifications, Experience and Personal Attributes
• Educated to Degree level or equivalent through experience.
• At least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Strong leadership qualities, experience developing others and creating a culture of empowerment and performance delivery
• Ability to build and motivate high performing teams.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills both verbally and in writing.
• Experience in project management.
• Knowledge of sustainability and energy-efficient practices.
• Strong organisational abilities, balanced with sound judgement on the implementation of structure, process, consistency and results.
• Confidently lead multi-disciplined team in a unified direction with a common vision.
• Ability to understand and explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Builds strong, cross-functional relationships with other departments.
• Maintains composure under pressure and leads by example.
• Upholds high standards of ethics and fairness in all decisions aligned with the values of Ports of Jersey.
• Can effectively mediate and resolve team or project challenges.
Benefits
At Ports of Jersey we have a company cash health plan scheme you are eligible to join from day one with benefits such as;
• GP £75
• Dental £75
• Optical £75
• Dental accident £300
• Physio/ acupuncture/ chiropractic £200
• Diagnostic tests/ scans £300
• Health assessment £100
• Plus many more discounts (DW gym, discount spa vouchers etc.)
We offer free parking at all of our locations.
We also offer a pension scheme to those on permanent contracts, the main benefits of the scheme are as follows;
• 5% employer contribution rate on basic salary plus shift
• Employees can make voluntary contributions and ports will match 1% for 1% up to an employer maximum matched contribution of 5% e.g. Employee opts to contribute 5% Ports will match this and the total employer contributions would become 10%
• You are eligible to join the pension scheme the month after successful completion of your probation
• Minimum joining age – 18
• You are not able to join the pension scheme once you reach Government of Jersey state retirement age
• Cash sum payable to nominated beneficiary if the member dies in service.
About Ports of Jersey
We are a 370+ strong team of air traffic controllers, coastguards, accountants, engineers, fire fighters, port operations, security specialists, pilots, project managers, technicians, passenger service agents and many, many more. We are tremendously conscientious people with enormous pride in serving our island.
We provide the connectivity that is critical to Jersey’s economy and islanders’ quality of life, whether to visit friends and relatives, to access specialist medical care and education, as well as to travel on holiday and business.
We keep the Island running, often without people even noticing us. Islanders depend on our lifeline freight links for the food we eat, the clothes we wear and the materials we build, furnish and heat our houses with.
At the same time, we have ambitious plans for the future. We are on schedule for the biggest capital investment since our incorporation, with plans to regenerate and transform the Harbour. Plans which will be built with our stakeholders and the community.
We’re also planning to play our part in the biggest challenges of our lifetime: climate change and biodiversity loss. For anyone in the travel industry, a conversation about the subject is never going to be an easy one, but we’re finalising an ambitious and authentic sustainability plan, to not only offset the emissions the links to Jersey create but to go much further. We’re looking at initiatives that will truly make an impact, to our island and our planet. While also making a difference to our community.
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