Site Operations Manager

Bring your operational leadership to a role where real-world impact, clear accountability, and strong stakeholder confidence matter every day. As Site Operations Manager, you'll oversee safe, compliant, and commercially disciplined delivery across a renewable energy plant, playing a central part in keeping operations reliable, governance sound, and decisions genuinely well-informed.

What You Will Do:

• Lead the operational and technical delivery of the Management Services Agreement (MSA) for the Sleaford Renewable Energy Plant, ensuring value for the Owner.

• Drive a proactive safety and risk management culture, ensuring Health, Safety, Environmental and statutory compliance across daily operations.

• Manage and challenge the O&M contractor performance, holding delivery to contractual standards for availability, reliability, maintenance, and performance guarantees.

• Provide robust technical oversight of plant performance, addressing defects, outages, maintenance strategy, and lifecycle risks through root-cause thinking and timely escalation.

• Oversee operational governance and reporting, including KPIs, evidence-based recommendations, document control, billing support, and site administration.

• Manage site operational support and transport execution within the operational model, ensuring safe, efficient and cost-effective delivery aligned with operational and fuel plans.

What You Will Bring:

• Significant senior-level experience in large-scale power generation, steam-raising, or comparable complex process plant environments, with strong engineering judgement.

• Demonstrable experience managing third-party O&M or engineering contractors to contractual performance and shared objectives.

• In-depth knowledge of UK health, safety, environmental and regulatory compliance, ideally within an energy or industrial setting.

• Strong commercial and contract management capability, with proven experience in budgeting, cost control, and commercial administration.

• Relevant technical or engineering qualification (or equivalent experience), plus NEBOSH or equivalent health and safety competence.

The Site Operations Manager position is built for leaders who can translate complex operational detail into clear decisions. This company operates with a creative, open-minded and practical approach to renewable energy projects across the UK and Europe, and the Site Operations Manager role helps ensure delivery remains safe, reliable and commercially grounded. By strengthening governance, contractor accountability, reporting quality and continuous improvement, Site Operations Manager outcomes directly support sustained operational performance and stakeholder confidence.

Location:

The Site Operations Manager role is based on-site at Sleaford Renewable Energy Plant, with opportunities for hybrid working, covering Monday to Friday hours.

Interested?:

If this Site Operations Manager role sounds like the next step for our operational leadership journey, apply now and take advantage of the opportunity to shape safe, reliable and high-performing renewable operations.

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