The Role
As the Labour Manager you will report into the Head of Industrial Relations and will be accountable for our client's weekly paid staff that operate on various working rule agreements. You will take the lead on any local resourcing conflicts and ensure the best solution is achieved. The Labour Manager's role is to provide effective management of operative labour, to support the work of multiple projects.

This role is to provide maternity cover on a fixed term, 12 month contract.

Personal Skills
▪ Innovative thinking to support the needs of the operations.
▪ Ability to verbally communicate at all levels of seniority to build rapport, trust and respect.
▪ Resilient and flexible when under pressure and can demonstrate agility in a changing landscape.
▪ Motivated to seek out where improvements can be made and progressive in identifying effective and efficient ways of managing the weekly workforce.
▪ Keen eye for detail and resilient to balance conflicting priorities.

Responsibilities
Labour Forecasting
• Review forecast for all projects weekly ensuring all projects are suitably resourced
• Respond to operational requests for all ad hoc and urgent resource requests
• Take an innovative and proactive approach to long-term workforce forecasting over a 12 month cycle
• Partner the estimating function ensuring all labour considerations are included in tenders and bids
• Attend pre-start labour strategy meetings
Stakeholder Management
• Interact with management of varying seniority and foster a collaborative working relationship
• Maintain regular contact with the Operative community, responding to queries timely
• Support in all Operative ER casework, conducting investigations, managing grievances inconjuction with the HRBP teams
• Be confident to lead and influence stakeholders
• Regular site visits to maintain high levels of engagement
Working Rule Agreements
• Maintain an excellent level of understanding of the working rule agreements and legislation
• Attend industry meetings and engage with union representatives, fostering a collaborative working relationship
• Deliver local / national Health & Safety initiatives to all sites within the area of responsibility
• Ensure a relentless focus on Changing Gear that is communicated effectively with our staff and unions
• Ensure that all staff are paid inline with working rule agreements maintaing strong working relationship with payroll
Apprentices & Trainees
• Support with recruitment of apprentices and trainees
• Play an active role in the induction and onboarding of all apprentices and trainees
• Expert pastoral care towards apprentices and trainees
• Support apprentices and trainees to maximise their experience and obtain relevant qualifications
• Ensure talent and success planning for career mapping
Systems and Tools
• Boost minimum intermediate level of MS Excel capability for forecasting
• Proficient in power point and other microsoft office applications
• Solid understanding of Time and Attendance systems
• Cross transferable knowledge of internal systems and processing

Qualifications
Essential:
▪ Relevant M&E installation / construction industry experience.
▪ GCSE qualification or higher in Maths and English

Desirable:
▪ NVQ Level 3 - either electronically or mechanically biased
▪ Good knowledge of work rule agreements