Operations Director

The Operations Director position leads the Field Services operations with the following priorities:

• Ensuring team safety,

• Securing the execution of the job on customer sites to quality, budget and time standards,

• Deploying corporate strategy, 

• Driving customer satisfaction, 

• Accelerating sales, backlog management & profitability,

• Managing the Operations teams,

• Managing a transition to a digital business model.

Essential Responsibilities: 

• Safety & Cybersecurity

• Lead by example in ensuring safety & cyber security standards are applied.

• Ensure FSR’s receive appropriate certification before attending site and use PPE.

• Secure FSR Managers perform (minimum) 1 safety audit per FSR per year.

• Ensure the whole team are trained on cybersecurity and have a compliant endpoint (laptop).

• Business Performance 

• Ensure jobs are planned and performed to optimize profits, ensuring safety, quality standards and customer service is maintained.

• Drive profitable growth through the yearly implementation of the Annual Operation 

Productivity Plan (AO2P), including workforce planning.

• Ensure additional scope of work (requested by customer) is invoiced.

• Drive the FSR Lead Generation program.

• Implement a lean and agile operations organization.

• Control operating costs.

• Develop and grow key relationships with customers.

• Drive improvements in first-time fix rates (FTFR).

• Develop strategic account loyalty.

• People

• Attract, recruit, onboard, develop, motivate and manage a robust and high performing Operations team while controlling voluntary attrition.

• Prepare the pipeline of the future by scouting & nurturing a diverse pool of Services talent.

• Manage team skills & behaviors to match with business needs and market evolution.

• Organization

• Role model collaboration between functions in Services, other BU’s locally and Global Services Execution Team, encourage the removal of silos.

• Deploy the operating model.

• Drive a lean and agile organization.

Main interactions: 

FSVP, Sales, Customers, Back Office Coordinators, FSRs & Sub Contractors, Quality, H&S, Finance & Global Services Execution Team.

The Operations Director should have:

• Engineering and/or Business master’s degree or equivalent experience.

• Leadership experience.

• Knowledge of Power System & / or Secure Power business.

• A customer mindset and a people orientation. 

• Vision and strong communication skills and the ability to build and foster teamwork.

• Extensive business acumen with strong results orientation.

• Confidence and courage to make appropriate decisions and accept accountability.

• Excellent relationship skills and the ability to communicate effectively with executive leaders and customers.

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+9% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries

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