Head of Surveying - Derby

Duties:

• Resource management. Working with the Design Services Director to ensure that teams are sufficiently sized, kept productive, adequately trained & motivated to deliver SPLs future pipeline of surveying works.
• Investigate new tools & technologies throughout the industry, producing business plans for those which would drive efficiencies (alongside the Design Services Director) within the surveying team & managing the implementation of those that are successfully brought into the business.
• Undertake periodical site audits and safety inspections when SPL Powerlines UK Limited staff is engaged on site duties.
• Collaborate with the ‘Head of Internal Design’, Survey Managers (UK Wide), Engineering Managers (UK wide) and all stakeholders within the business to develop a fully integrated digitised output.
• Lead estimating for future surveying bids where required, using appropriate survey managers for support.
• Ensure appropriate commercial agreements are in place for all survey packages prior to works starting & review performance at all stages of a project.
• Drive best in industry delivery of SPL surveying projects to time, cost & quality.
• Develop & maintain surveying management systems to show project status & health, whilst holding periodic reviews with survey managers to ensure projects are on track.
• Review project specific reporting, periodically produced by the survey managers, highlighting the projects status & health.
• Support & mentor surveying managers with project change & early warning notices (EWNs) to ensure strong communication channels with clients & project teams.
• Undertake business development for new surveying opportunities and support the work winning director where required.
• Authorise timesheets for the SPL internal surveying practice (authority shared with the Design Services Director) on a weekly basis, ensuring systems & levels of checking are in place for correct coding & accuracy of information.
• Drive process improvements for surveying projects alongside appropriate stakeholders within SPL & then enforce governance through SPL Powerlines IMS.
• Support project teams to effectively manage subcontractors & produce/review associated commercial agreements (with support from SPLs commercial teams) to outsource required surveying works.
• Performance Development Reviews to the surveying team whilst offering mentorship, robust feedback, training & support.
• Lead on interviews & resource discussions for the SPL surveying team to ensure the function has adequate capability.
• Input into future business plans with the Design Services Director.
• Chair & Record lessons learned at the end of each project, feeding these into competence management, training, development & future tenders.
• Ensure that up to date records of individual projects are maintained and are available for audit purpose.

The person:

• Developer, trainer & teacher to others, whilst working as part of a team.
• Sensitive towards others / compassionate.
• Determination to drive work efficiencies.
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills, both written & verbal.
• Self-Motivated to achieve goals.
• Able to motivate teams to achieve goals.
• Ability to stay calm & make informed decisions.
• Ability to prioritise & rationalise tasks to delivery to deadlines.
• Ability to make decisions to allow internal design teams to progress designs.
• Fully computer literate.
• Willingness to travel to different design offices to support team (where required).
• Full driving licence & vehicle.
• Valid PTS card.
• Degree qualified in a relevant subject matter.
• A minimum of 8 years’ experience managing large projects or teams.
• A minimum of 8 years’ experience working specifically on multidisciplinary projects.
• Technical & Surveying management experience suitable for individual to manage multiple teams.

We offer you:

• A varied, responsible and challenging position
• An open, dynamically growing international business environment
• The opportunity to actively participate in the development of the company