Operations Manager

OPERATIONS MANAGER

Job reference: SAE-

Salary: Grade 6: £37,694 - £46,049 per annum + £3K location supplement per annum

Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering

Location: Harwell, Oxfordshire

Employment type: Permanent

Division/Team: University of Manchester at Harwell

Hours Per Week: Full Time

Contract Duration: Permanent

School/Directorate: Faculty Office - Science and Engineering

About the Role:

Join the dynamic team located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Harwell, Oxfordshire. You will be involved with experiments at Diamond Light Source National Synchrotron Facility, Central Laser Facility and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, a world-leading centre for research. The local team comprises PSS technical and administrative support staff, academics, research fellows, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students based locally in Harwell, Oxfordshire. You will engage with a wide range of people across the site including University of Manchester Research Groups based locally on site at Harwell, and with a much broader academic community across university staff based in Manchester and various academic, governmental and industrial collaborators both nationally and internationally. You will play an integral part in supporting the development of world-leading research for applying synchrotron science to key research challenges.

The Deputy Operations Manager will provide day to day local support to the Director and Deputy Director of The University of Manchester at Harwell and to the Head of Operations based in Manchester. He or she will free up both the Director and Head of Operations from responsibility for the day-to-day local operational matters including the management and development of a high quality, PSS administrative and technical team. Working together with both the Director, Deputy Director and the Head of Operations, the Deputy Operations Manager will ensure the local implementation of The University of Manchester at Harwell’s strategic and operational plans. The Deputy Operations Manager will also support the Director, Deputy Director and Head of Operations to help ensure the facilities conformity with all relevant legal and statutory compliance.

What you will get in return:

Fantastic market leading Pension scheme

Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme

Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays

Additional paid closure over the Christmas period

Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit. Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here.

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

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