Team Leader

We have an exciting opportunity for a Team Leader within our East Wales Major Projects team based at Church Village, Pontypridd covering the East Wales region to be responsible for leading a group of approximately twenty Craft staff.

The key focus of this role is to lead an efficient and productive team across a region. Key considerations for the successful running of your team include: ensuring they are working compliantly within H&S policies, coordinating programmes of work for them to undertake, maximising efficiencies in delivery, ensuring your team has the appropriate development and authorisations and effectively managing performance on a 1:1 basis.

This is a crucial role to help drive forward performance and give our large teams the support they need in the field. The new Team Leader role will be one of ways to help 

*The starting salary will be £43,491 until the training is successfully completed.

• Ensuring your teams adherence to Health and Safety regulations
• Efficient scheduling of work activities
• Collaboration with other teams to manage workload
• Driving team productivity and individual performance management
• Maintaining a full schedule of work for the team
• Ensure our people have the appropriate training and work authorisations to support a safe and productive working environment
• Respond quickly and professionally to customer complaints

• The ideal candidate for this role will be an excellent communicator with a proven track record of managing teams, and will be experienced in being an escalation point for both the team and external customers.
• The ability to develop a good understanding of Health and Safety legislation, Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002 and Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
• Organised, good time management, the ability to juggle multiple jobs with different complexities and guarantee standards often at the same time, with strong problem solving and the ability to think and plan ahead
• Good communicator with the presence to build strong relationships with our customers
• An understanding of and the ability to effectively manage performance
• Knowledge of craft roles or the ability/willingness to quickly develop your understanding of these roles and the work activities in your team
• Experience of working in high-risk, operational industries where health and safety is paramount, ideally. 
•  A NRSWA qualification or understanding of NRSWA legislation is desirable but full training can be provided.

This role is subject to a satisfactory Barring Service, (DBS) check, depending on the role different levels of screening and vetting are required. Some roles require a triannual check. #LI-SC1