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Warehouse & Logistics Manager - March, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Cambridgeshire, PE15 0AX
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Join Our Team at Smurfit Westrock!
Are you searching for a workplace that values you and your growth? At Smurfit Westrock, we’re committed to sustainability, employee well-being, and personal development.
About Us
We are a global leader in sustainable paper and packaging. Our focus is on the health and safety of our employees, the well-being of our communities, and delivering exceptional service to our customers. We support our team members to reach their full potential in an inclusive environment that values diversity.
The Role
We’re looking for a dynamic and proactive Warehouse and Logistics Manager to lead our warehouse and despatch functions at the March site. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll be expected to actively support your team, champion best practice, and help build a culture of accountability, development, and continuous improvement.
If you're passionate about logistics, thrive under pressure, and can balance strategic oversight with day-to-day operational support, this could be your next step.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee all aspects of warehousing (on and off-site), stock control, pallets/tops and transport, ensuring excellent service to customers while meeting budgeted costs. li >Lead by example on the shop floor, supporting, coaching, and developing a high-performing warehouse team.
- Drive a continuous improvement culture, identifying opportunities to streamline processes, improve stock accuracy, reduce waste, and enhance safety.
- Take full accountability for stock accuracy, transport planning, and third-party contractor management, ensuring compliance and cost efficiency.
- Ensure all despatch operations support (OTIF) performance and customer satisfaction targets.
- Coordinate warehousing and logistics to support production requirements and optimise space utilisation across on-site and off-site locations.
- Collaborate with internal teams, including Production, Finance, Customer Services, and Planning, to ensure logistics activities align with plant priorities.
- Ensure Health & Safety is prioritised, always driving adherence to safe systems of work and company procedures.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience in warehouse and logistics management (ideally in a manufacturing environment).
- A visible, hands-on leader who actively supports and inspires their team.
- Track record of leading successful CI initiatives (Lean, 5S, visual management, etc.).
- Strong understanding of transport and stock control systems.
- Exceptional planning, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to challenge the status quo and drive measurable change.
- A collaborative mindset, able to build effective relationships across departments.
- Leadership qualifications (e.g., ILM or equivalent) (Desirable)
What We Offer
- Competitive salary & benefits, including annual leave, pension, and a Cycle to Work scheme
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- 24/7 confidential support for you and your family
- Flexible working options and family-friendly policies
- Guaranteed interview for candidates meeting essential criteria (Disability Confident Employer)
Ready to make an impact? Apply today and help us build a sustainable future together.
Smurfit Westrock reserve the right to only shortlist candidates who meet both the Essential and Desirable Criteria.
We are an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their sex; religious or similar philosophical belief; political opinion; race; age; sexual orientation; or, whether they are married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled; or whether they have undergone, are undergoing or intend to undergo gender reassignment.
We practice equality of opportunity in employment and select the best person for the job.
Partnership and Delivery Officer - Yate
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As Partnership and Delivery Officer, you will make a difference in the delivery of a wide range of community, landscape and environmental projects on public open space management and the efficient and sustainable management of open spaces.
Empowering community groups to provide support and technical expertise to carry out landscape and environmental improvement projects, you will encourage contribution towards the enhancement, maintenance and improvement of open space land assets. You will also inspect land scheduled to become public open spaces through the development process, assess appropriate horticultural standards and liaise with legal services in accordance with relevant 106 agreements.
What you will be doing
- It will be your responsibility to provide advice, guidance and support to community groups, partners and customers to support objectives and identify areas within local communities to engage people in the provision and delivery of s106 funded off site public open space landscape improvements.
- You will facilitate the inspection of land scheduled to become public open space through the development process, including site inspections to assess horticultural standards and any necessary liaison.
- It will be key for you to plan and deliver events including consultation, undertaking presentations, briefings and providing formal and informal training to colleagues, partners and the community in a variety of settings.
- Monitoring assigned budgets, you will ensure activities are achieved within allocated resources, timelines and budget and that financial information is accurate and accessible.
- Assisting in the building of local community networks, you will help build capacity to make an effective contribution to a wide range of community initiatives and work closely with partner organisations to secure their involvement in achieving community objectives.
What we need from you
- It is essential you have a relevant degree or equivalent qualification in a horticultural, landscape or environmental management discipline, or considerable experience in managing public open space improvements, landscape and environmental projects and community engagement.
- We require you to be able to demonstrate experience of managing and implementing multiple, complex horticultural, landscape and environmental schemes.
- You will have knowledge of practical horticultural methods, techniques and standards applicable to the service area, specifically the inspection of landscaping and public open space schemes, inspected by the council as part of the development process.
- It is essential you have demonstrable experience of working with community groups and volunteers to enhance and manage open spaces and implement landscape and environmental projects.
- You must be able to engage effectively with colleagues and external partners and influence others based on your technical knowledge of the area.
What you need to know
- This is a limited term contract until 22nd April 2027
- Full time, 37 hours per week
- This is also suitable as an internal secondment opportunity.
Interviews will take place week commencing 1st September 2025.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different
- As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts , including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
- We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
- We're planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses.
- We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.
- We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Partnership and Delivery Officer - Job Description
Logistics Manager - Bridgend
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Logistics Manager
Bridgend
26886/900
£55,000 - £0,000 plus bonus, BUPA health insurance, and pension
What is on offer?
- A salary of 5,000 - 0,000
- BUPA Health insurance
- Annual Bonus Scheme (up to 6%)
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Enhanced Pension Scheme - company will match up to 10%
- Comprehensive Sick Pay Scheme
This company is a well-known manufacturer in the local area that are looking to bring on enthusiastic, innovative and motivated people to join their growing business. They are a leading employer in the South Wales area and offer excellent internal training programmes and have an extremely low staff turnover.
Role & Responsibilities:
The Logistics Manager leads the end-to-end warehouse operation, overseeing the flow of finished goods from production, storage, and outbound distribution to customers, as well as the inbound receipt of imported products and movements of packaging onto the factory lines.
- Lead and manage all warehousing activities including inbound product handling, finished goods put away, storage, loading and outbound dispatch.
- Maintain high standards of warehouse safety, compliance, and housekeeping (5S).
- Drive productivity improvements across warehouse operations through standardisation, visual management, and KPI control.
- Manage warehouse planning, resource allocation, and shift structures to meet production and delivery schedules.
- Lead, develop, and coach a team of supervisors, team leaders and warehouse operatives.
- Manage cost performance, including labour, storage, and equipment utilisation.
A full job description can be provided upon request
Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience leading warehouse operations
- Experience in a manufacturing environment is essential
- Strong team leadership and people development capability
- Working knowledge of warehouse systems (e.g., WMS, SAP, ERP)
- Experience in lean methodologies, 5S, or operational excellence programmes
To apply please email your CV / resume to
If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.
Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.
Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
Job Tenure: Permanent Salary: 5000 - 000 per annum + bonus, healthcare, pension and more Location: Bridgend,Senior Agent Heathrow Tranche 5 - Hounslow
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Costain is the Major Programme Partner (MPP) and the Asset Renewal Partner (ARP) for Terminals 1 and 2, two of six major programmes of work that Heathrow has committed to deliver within the H7 quinquennium.
Within the MPP framework, Costain is the Principal Contractor and Principal Designer for the T2 Baggage Programme (T2BP), which is a £700m+ complex baggage and infrastructure programme intended to extend and protect existing Terminal 1 baggage operation until the new Terminal 2A baggage system has been designed, constructed, tested, and operational.
You will be working as the Tranche 5 Senior Agent reporting into the Tranche Lead. Your role will involve leading all stages of the project lifecycle, taking our expertise to enhance the Heathrow team project capability from design, manufacture, supply, install, commission, integrate, transition, and hand over a completely functional, operable, and maintainable non-baggage infrastructure required to accommodate the new T2 Baggage Handling System for T2 (T2BHS). The role involves working closely with our Client and other Tier 1 suppliers, embracing the 'one team' approach and aligning ourselves with their values and behaviours.
You will be accountable for the safe delivery of the following elements of scope, ensuring these are delivered within the KPI set by the Client, which will include establishing and delivering against an agreed schedule and budget:
- Develop the optimal construction sequence and phasing with all Tier 1 suppliers as well of those of the client
- Undertake Constructability reviews
- Work with planner to develop a fully integrated delivery schedule
- Manage the package managers for each discipline
- Construction of CSA elements and MEPh systems across levels A0, 00, 10, 20, 25 and 30
- Creation of new structural openings within floor slabs and the building's external envelope
- Internal and external service diversions
- Construction of a new external link bridge connecting levels of the building for the baggage system, including cladding.
- Creation of new accommodation facilities for baggage system operators and engineers
- Alterations and additions to the building's existing MEPh, BMS, security and fire safety installations
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Responsibilities
- Promote, champion, and implement all best practices, safety management, and safety initiatives across all design and site delivery aspects, ensuring a safe and healthy working environment.
- Setting clearly defined objectives for self and others to deliver plans. Taking appropriate ownership and accountability. Identifies and organises resources to accomplish tasks. Ensuring plans have targets, measures, and clear accountabilities.
- Identify and organise resources to accomplish tasks. Ensuring plans have targets, measures, and clear accountabilities.
- Developed and managed trackers and reporting processes to provide progress updates on packages, delivering internal and external reporting with overall responsibility for meeting the project's performance requirements.
- Coordinating and assisting the design management team to confirm designer schedules and outputs and ensuring the relevant designers progress the design in line with the agreed delivery schedule and designing completeness.
- Promoting the best build sequences to improve constructability and site delivery in the design and delivery phases
- Drive efficiency and continual productivity improvements, creating best practices for the team and adding value for our customers.
- Providing input and advice during the procurement process. Assisting the procurement and commercial teams in developing budgets and any incentivisation targets.
- Ensuring all pre-commencement deliverables are clarified, completed and demonstratable.
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential
- Champions Sustainability, Safety, Health and Environment by putting personal safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do and helping the environment and communities to thrive
- Understanding of Engineering and Construction Principles for civil, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation requirements.
- Being commercially aware and astute, continuously reviewing and identifying any opportunities for added value, improving the incentive targets whilst minimising any reputational, financial, and legal risks
- Passionate about improving performance through best practices, process improvements and continuous improvement practices.
- Co-ordination of sub-contractor activities, including chairing regular co-ordination meetings with staff and subcontractors
- Good organisational skills and the ability to manage a busy workload, balancing competing priorities and deadlines.
- Care about doing a great job and exceeding expectations with the quality of what you do.
- Having integrity by always doing the right thing in the right way
- Must be customer focussed by striving for excellence through understanding, anticipating and meeting their needs
- Lead a project/s from the stage in which it is allocated to us to its endpoint, working with the various disciplines, the supply chain and Heathrow (our partner)
Desirable
- Previous experience working at Heathrow and appreciation of their Governance lifecycle
- Experience in delivering baggage systems
- Proficient user of AutoCAD 3D, Civil3D, BIM360, Bentley MicroStation 3D Modelling and Point Cloud
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level/HNC/HND qualification in Civil Engineering or relevant professional experience
- Site Management Safety Training Scheme SMSTS.
- Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS MAP)
- Qualification In APM PMQ
Desirable
- Site Environmental Awareness Training Scheme (SEATS)
- CITB Temporary Works Coordinator
- CPCS Appointed Persons: Lifting Operations A61
About Us
Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
We do share individual feedback following an interview .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
Procurement and Supply Chain Manager - Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Costain have won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have been appointed by Northumbrian Water to the Living Water Enterprise to help shape and deliver its strategic infrastructure upgrade programme.
The Procurement and Supply Chain Management function is responsible for the interface with those third-party organisations who support our business whether that be for procurement of goods and services or the relationship management that underpins any such activities. They support project delivery teams across our key sectors to ensure the strategic direction is identified and delivered.
The role of the Procurement and Supply Chain Manager is to lead project subcontract procurement and be an advisor to project stakeholders along with post-contract award Supply Chain Management and contribute to the development and deployment of direct Category Strategies for group business needs. The role operates within the Water sector Procurement and Supply Chain team, working closely with the project leads, Sector Head of P&SC and other members of the wider P&SC management team. You are responsible for ensuring that your sector P&SC strategy is deployed and implemented, balancing and optimising both the operational requirements of our projects and the strategic goals of our Group objectives.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the sector, driving efficiency, sustainability, and innovation within the procurement and supply chain function.
This a Hybrid role working across our Newcastle and Durham offices 2-3 days per week.
Responsibilities
The role will report to the Sector Head of Procurement and Supply Chain and will be part of the functional SLT team and lead on project Procurement and Supply Chain Management across the Water sector. The P&SC Manager role will be responsible for:
- Delivering Procurement (Pre-Contract) & Supply Chain Management (Post-Contract) across their sector, providing direction and support in the process. This will include collaborating seamlessly with the pre-construction estimating team and the post-award commercial team under our One Team, One Costain vision
- Ability to utilise the Procurement Process to enable ECI, guiding the team on the decision-making criteria such as (but not limited to): the maturity of the design, the preservation of commercial tension, the likely benefits realisation pipeline, the opportunity to secure scarce resource, the relationship with the proposed ECI 2-stage Subcontractor and the ability to take a recommendation through The Costain Way gated governance
- Project management and procurement to deliver our category strategy requirements
- Project management of subcontract procurement activities, delivering predictable best-in-class outcomes which enable the project team to meet all key dates and milestones, whilst delivering high forecast accuracy, ensuring a robust and structured supply chain exists to service the requirements of the projects / frameworks fully complying with the How- to- Buy Process
- Enabling the drive towards Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), including but not limited to local Small to Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) engagement, delivering Social Impact, as well as Net Zero
- Promote collaboration between the business and the supply chain to unlock value through innovation and best practice where appropriate using the principles of ISO44001 or P13 principles
- Develop strong relationships with key internal stakeholders to democratise the procurement process, our strategic approach and governance, unlocking Value for Money across our portfolio of work
- Develop relationships with client's Supply Chain and Procurement teams, participating in their initiatives to assist them in achieving their goals, maximising stakeholder engagement with external stakeholders to deliver outcomes
- Leverage operational procurement and subcontract practices that keep disallowed costs to a minimum, with a small delta between the normalised quote and the outturn cost, preserving the margin of our projects and the Group.
- Supply Chain Performance Management, including managing under-performance with successful corrective action planning, and excellent performance (via the sharing of lessons learned)
Qualifications
Essential
- Significant experience working in a similar level role
- A clear and visible enthusiasm for driving improvement in best practice
- Ability to demonstrate a level of emotional intelligence, capable of engaging with a wide-ranging stakeholder group
- Extensive knowledge of supply chain management and procurement
- Experience of collaborative working and implementing innovation
- Operational Procurement & Supply Chain skills relevant to the construction industry
- Extensive knowledge of leading procurement and supply chain practice and the value the P&SC function adds to our projects is communicated regularly throughout the function to drive a learning culture
- Basic carbon literacy and an awareness of ISO20400 Guidance Standard for Sustainable Procurement
- Experienced in leading supply chain engagement, e.g., chairing procurement meetings and negotiations
- A clear and visible enthusiasm for driving improvement in best practice
- Experience in developing and implementing ESG and SV policies with the supply base
- Experience of collaborative working and implementing innovation
- Familiarity with NEC forms of contract
- Proactive, flexible and results oriented
- Adaptable at working in both team environment and working in isolation
- Excellent Microsoft Office suite proficiency (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)
- Strong numerical, financial and data analysis skills.
- Member Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply qualified (min level 5)
Desirable
- Experience in negotiating heavily modified NEC3/NEC4 subcontracts to promote demonstrative favourable commercial outcomes for the business
- Previous knowledge of Frameworks projects and associated procurement practices
- More extensive expertise in ISO2040 and be able to demonstrate delivering tangible sustainable outcomes through the supply chain (i.e. such as a reduction in Scope 3 GHGs)
- ISO 44001 experience from concept to delivery with Strategic Supply Chain Partners (or an equivalent level of demonstrated experience with Project 13 principles)
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About Us
Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
We do share individual feedback following an interview .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
Procurement and Supply Chain Manager - Warrington
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Costain have won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have been appointed by United Utilities as one of 7 partners to the Enterprise, delivering £5.5bn of projects in the Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8) between 2025 - 2030, and AMP 9 (2030 - 2035). Our scope is to provide project management, design, construction and commissioning services on design and build schemes throughout the North West and Cumbria region covered by United Utilities. Projects vary in value, covering both infrastructure and non-infrastructure assets on water and wastewater sites with wider Enterprise partners
The role of the Procurement and Supply Chain Manager is to lead project subcontract procurement and be an advisor to project stakeholders along with post-contract award Supply Chain Management and contribute to the development and deployment of direct Category Strategies for group business needs. The role operates within the Water sector Procurement and Supply Chain team, working closely with the project leads, Sector Head of P&SC and other members of the wider P&SC management team. You are responsible for ensuring that your sector P&SC strategy is deployed and implemented, balancing and optimising both the operational requirements of our projects and the strategic goals of our Group objectives.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the sector, driving efficiency, sustainability, and innovation within the procurement and supply chain function.
This a Hybrid role working across our Warrington and Manchester offices 2-3 days per week.
Responsibilities
The role will report to the Sector Head of Procurement and Supply Chain and will be part of the functional SLT team and lead on project Procurement and Supply Chain Management across the Water sector. The P&SC Manager role will be responsible for:
- Delivering Procurement (Pre-Contract) & Supply Chain Management (Post-Contract) across their sector, providing direction and support in the process. This will include collaborating seamlessly with the pre-construction estimating team and the post-award commercial team under our One Team, One Costain vision
- Ability to utilise the Procurement Process to enable ECI, guiding the team on the decision-making criteria such as (but not limited to): the maturity of the design, the preservation of commercial tension, the likely benefits realisation pipeline, the opportunity to secure scarce resource, the relationship with the proposed ECI 2-stage Subcontractor and the ability to take a recommendation through The Costain Way gated governance
- Project management and procurement to deliver our category strategy requirements
- Project management of subcontract procurement activities, delivering predictable best-in-class outcomes which enable the project team to meet all key dates and milestones, whilst delivering high forecast accuracy, ensuring a robust and structured supply chain exists to service the requirements of the projects / frameworks fully complying with the How- to- Buy Process
- Enabling the drive towards Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), including but not limited to local Small to Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) engagement, delivering Social Impact, as well as Net Zero
- Promote collaboration between the business and the supply chain to unlock value through innovation and best practice where appropriate using the principles of ISO44001 or P13 principles
- Develop strong relationships with key internal stakeholders to democratise the procurement process, our strategic approach and governance, unlocking Value for Money across our portfolio of work
- Develop relationships with client's Supply Chain and Procurement teams, participating in their initiatives to assist them in achieving their goals, maximising stakeholder engagement with external stakeholders to deliver outcomes
- Leverage operational procurement and subcontract practices that keep disallowed costs to a minimum, with a small delta between the normalised quote and the outturn cost, preserving the margin of our projects and the Group.
- Supply Chain Performance Management, including managing under-performance with successful corrective action planning, and excellent performance (via the sharing of lessons learned)
Qualifications
Essential
- Significant experience working in a similar level role
- A clear and visible enthusiasm for driving improvement in best practice
- Ability to demonstrate a level of emotional intelligence, capable of engaging with a wide-ranging stakeholder group
- Extensive knowledge of supply chain management and procurement
- Experience of collaborative working and implementing innovation
- Operational Procurement & Supply Chain skills relevant to the construction industry
- Extensive knowledge of leading procurement and supply chain practice and the value the P&SC function adds to our projects is communicated regularly throughout the function to drive a learning culture
- Basic carbon literacy and an awareness of ISO20400 Guidance Standard for Sustainable Procurement
- Experienced in leading supply chain engagement, e.g., chairing procurement meetings and negotiations
- A clear and visible enthusiasm for driving improvement in best practice
- Experience in developing and implementing ESG and SV policies with the supply base
- Experience of collaborative working and implementing innovation
- Familiarity with NEC forms of contract
- Proactive, flexible and results oriented
- Adaptable at working in both team environment and working in isolation
- Excellent Microsoft Office suite proficiency (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)
- Strong numerical, financial and data analysis skills.
- Member Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply qualified (min level 5)
Desirable
- Experience in negotiating heavily modified NEC3/NEC4 subcontracts to promote demonstrative favourable commercial outcomes for the business
- Previous knowledge of Frameworks projects and associated procurement practices
- More extensive expertise in ISO2040 and be able to demonstrate delivering tangible sustainable outcomes through the supply chain (i.e. such as a reduction in Scope 3 GHGs)
- ISO 44001 experience from concept to delivery with Strategic Supply Chain Partners (or an equivalent level of demonstrated experience with Project 13 principles)
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About Us
Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
We do share individual feedback following an interview .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
Supply Chain Manager - Brighton
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CMDP, a Joint Venture between Costain and MWHT, have been selected by Southern Water to deliver essential infrastructure solutions for its next AMP8 investment programme. The award is for an initial seven-year term worth at least £500m to Costain, with an option to extend by up to five years.
The strategic delivery partner framework will deliver upgrades to water and wastewater assets, including treatment sites, pumping stations and reservoirs, during Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8) and beyond.
The role of the Supply Chain Manager (Water) is to contribute to the development and deployment of their sector strategy for Supply Chain Management. Operating within the sector supply chain management team, working closely with the project leads, Sector Head of Supply Chain, Procurement and any other members of the Supply Chain management team, they are responsible for ensuring that their sector Supply Chain strategy is deployed into their sector.
Responsibilities
- Deliver Supply Chain Management across the CMDP JV, providing direction and support in the process
- Ensure a robust and structured supply chain exists and is correctly deployed in support of both winning and successfully delivering projects / frameworks
- Support the drive towards ESG, including but not limited to SME development, social value creation, zero carbon solutions, promoting safety
- Promote collaboration between the business and the supply chain to unlock value through innovation and best practice where appropriate using the principles of ISO44001
- Ensure strong governance is followed and adhered to, ensuring the business is not exposed to unnecessary risk and that effective performance management of the supply chain is undertaken
- Work closely with the Procurement function to ensure compatibility between activities of respective functions
- Develop relationships with client's Supply Chain and Procurement teams, participating in their initiatives to assist them in achieving their goals
- Seek out and bring to the JV (and where appropriate the wider business) innovative solutions /best practice
- Ensure data is produced and used to allow effective decision making
Qualifications
- Significant experience working in a similar level role
- A clear leader with excellent communication skills able to interact at all levels
- A clear and visible enthusiasm for driving improvement in best practice
- Ability to demonstrate a level of emotional intelligence, capable of engaging with a wide-ranging stakeholder group
- Extensive knowledge of supply chain management and procurement
- Experience of collaborative working and implementing innovation
- Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply qualified (min level 5)
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About Us
Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
We do share individual feedback following an interview .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
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Procurement and Supply Chain Manager - Greater Manchester
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Job Description
The Procurement and Supply Chain Management function is responsible for the interface with those third-party organisations who support our business whether that be for procurement of goods and services or the relationship management that underpins any such activities. They support project delivery teams across the sectors to ensure the strategic direction is identified and delivered.
The role of the Sector Procurement and Supply Chain Manager (Nuclear and Defence) is to lead project subcontract procurement and be an advisor for project stakeholders along with post-contract award Supply Chain Management and contribute to the development and deployment of direct Category Strategies for group business needs. The role operates within the Nuclear & Defence sector Procurement and Supply Chain team, working closely with the project leads, Sector Head of P&SC and other members of the wider P&SC management team. You are responsible for ensuring that your sector P&SC strategy is deployed and implemented, balancing and optimising both the operational requirements of our projects and the strategic goals of our Group objectives. Procurement and Supply Chain Managers should have impeccable stakeholder management skills, and be a proactive team-player with a solution-focused mindset.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the sector, driving efficiency, sustainability, and innovation within the procurement and supply chain functions
Responsibilities
The role will report to the Sector Head of Procurement and Supply Chain and will be part of the functional SLT team and lead on project Procurement and Supply Chain Management across the Nuclear & Defence sector. The Sector P&SC Manager role will be responsible for and can demonstrate:
- Delivering Procurement (Pre-Contract) & Supply Chain Management (Post-Contract) across their sector, providing direction and support in the process. This will include collaborating seamlessly with the pre-construction estimating team and the post-award commercial team under our One Team, One Costain vision
- Ability to utilise the Procurement Process to enable ECI, guiding the team on the decision-making criteria such as (but not limited to): the maturity of the design, the preservation of commercial tension, the likely benefits realisation pipeline, the opportunity to secure scarce resource, the relationship with the proposed ECI 2-stage Subcontractor and the ability to take a recommendation through The Costain Way gated governance
- Project management and procurement to deliver our category strategy requirements
- Project management of subcontract procurement activities, delivering predictable best-in-class outcomes which enable the project team to meet all key dates and milestones, whilst delivering high forecast accuracy, ensuring a robust and structured supply chain exists to service the requirements of the projects / frameworks fully complying with the How- to- Buy Process
- Enabling the drive towards Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), including but not limited to local Small to Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) engagement, delivering Social Impact, as well as Net Zero
- Promote collaboration between the business and the supply chain to unlock value through innovation and best practice where appropriate using the principles of ISO44001 or P13 principles
- Develop strong relationships with key internal stakeholders to democratise the procurement process, our strategic approach and governance, unlocking Value for Money across our portfolio of work
- Develop relationships with client's Supply Chain and Procurement teams, participating in their initiatives to assist them in achieving their goals, maximising stakeholder engagement with external stakeholders to deliver outcomes
- Leverage operational procurement and subcontract practices that keep disallowed costs to a minimum, with a small delta between the normalised quote and the outturn cost, preserving the margin of our projects and the Group.
- Supply Chain Performance Management, including managing under-performance with successful corrective action planning, and excellent performance (via the sharing of lessons learned)
Qualifications
Essential
- Significant experience working in a similar level role
- A clear and visible enthusiasm for driving improvement in best practice
- Ability to demonstrate a level of emotional intelligence, capable of engaging with a wide-ranging stakeholder group
- Extensive knowledge of supply chain management and procurement
- Experience of collaborative working and implementing innovation
- Operational Procurement & Supply Chain skills relevant to the construction industry
- Extensive knowledge of leading procurement and supply chain practice and the value the P&SC function adds to our projects is communicated regularly throughout the function to drive a learning culture
- Basic carbon literacy and an awareness of ISO20400 Guidance Standard for Sustainable Procurement
- Experienced in leading supply chain engagement, e.g., chairing procurement meetings and negotiations
- A clear and visible enthusiasm for driving improvement in best practice
- Experience in developing and implementing ESG and SV policies with the supply base
- Experience of collaborative working and implementing innovation
- Familiarity with NEC forms of contract
- Proactive, flexible and results oriented
- Adaptable at working in both team environment and working in isolation
- Excellent Microsoft Office suite proficiency (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)
- Strong numerical, financial and data analysis skills.
- Member Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply qualified (min level 5)
Desirable
- Experience in negotiating heavily modified NEC3/NEC4 subcontracts to promote demonstrative favourable commercial outcomes for the business
- Previous knowledge of Frameworks projects and associated procurement practices
- More extensive expertise in ISO2040 and be able to demonstrate delivering tangible sustainable outcomes through the supply chain (i.e. such as a reduction in Scope 3 GHGs)
- ISO 44001 experience from concept to delivery with Strategic Supply Chain Partners (or an equivalent level of demonstrated experience with Project 13 principles)
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About Us
Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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Leakage Delivery Support Manager, Northampton
Posted 5 days ago
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At Anglian Water our values are that together, we will: Build trust, do the right thing, and we are always exploring.
Who we are?Integrated Maintenance, Repair & Development Services (IMRDS) Alliance - Part of the Anglian Water network, focuses on infrastructure maintenance work and is responsible for: water network pressure management, finding and fixing leaks, replacing lead pipes and repairing burst mains.
What will you be doing as a Leakage Delivery Support Manager?This role is a front line operational management role within the leakage leadership team. Leading a local operational team and responsible for the local area leakage targeting, detection and progressing repairs and all associated cost management.
Knowledge of Water Network & Leakage operations is essential with strong leadership skills, excellent communication and people management skills and the ability to influence peer groups and key stakeholders both internal and external.
Directly responsible for employee wellbeing, health and safety with an ability to convert company strategy into tactical delivery outcomes in accordance with established health, safety, environmental and water network safeguarding procedures. (POSWSH).
Supporting the Leakage Delivery Manager your role will require strong performance management skills, essential to ensure in area performance against company ODI and regulatory leakage targets are achieved, and to ensure individual leakage resource performance is managed in accordance with established targets minimum expectations.
What skills, experience and behaviours are requiredExtensive experience and expertise as a practitioner of Leakage and water loss / network management.
Appropriate professional qualification or membership of professional body.
Preferably a business or leadership qualification.
Significant proven experience in an operational/management role.
Experienced at managing and driving operational performance.
Ability to assess risks / make significant operational decisions with incomplete information / dynamic situations.
Excellent leadership skills.
Excellent communications skills.
Excellent collaborative skills with a proven track record of delivery in a collaborative environment.
Ability to influence a range of stakeholders including external.
A drive to find new solutions and try new innovation.
Our people are important to us and we want to make sure that we reward and recognise all of the great work that they do. Some of our benefits include:
Bonus scheme
Private health care
Competitive pension scheme
Up to 26 days annual leave rising with length of service
Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing
Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we're committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.
If you feel this is the next move for you to with start your career or continue to enhance your career with Anglian Water then please apply today.
Closing date: 22nd August 2025 #loveeverydropDespatch Materials Handler - Nights - Worksop
Posted 6 days ago
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Days - Wednesday to Saturday 17:45 - 04:30
Pay Rate - £14.61 per hour
Why Greencore?
We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make every day taste better. We're sure you've tried our products because we supply food for the all the major supermarkets in the UK!
Here at Manton Wood , we have a team of around 1,700 colleagues. We produce sandwiches and wraps for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Co-op, Asda, Morrisons, Boots, Aldi and Lidl.
Our Manton Wood site has a gym, restaurant with hot food and a staff shop available to all our colleagues.
What you'll be doing
As a Despatch Materials Handler, you will be working between the Production windows and picking/stores area. As an essential part of the Low-Risk team, you will be assisting in ensuring our products our produced to the highest quality and standards. You will be ensuring each window has the correct packaging and trays as well as enough to keeps the lines moving. You will also be responsible for ensuring product received from the production area is chilled to the correct temperature before being picked and despatched.
This a physical role which requires some heavy lifting.
Responsibilities
Setting up of lines ready for production to start - making sure correct packaging/trays/cages are available, correct labels are set up for printing
Ensuring tape machines are set up correctly and supplied with tape to keep lines running.
Using hand pallet trucks to move packaging/materials throughout the area
Moving finished products from the production lines to the blast chills
Booking stock into the chills ready to be picked (using JBA guns)
Completion of traceability paperwork for blast chilling (use by dates, temperatures, times)
Counting of stock (both packaging and finished products) to ensure we always have adequate supply of packaging and to ensure correct amounts of finished stock are produced
Moving of finished products (cages, trays on wheels) to pick areas once chilled to be palletised and despatched
What we're looking for
At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.
Previous experience in a similar role/food environment (Desirable, not necessary)
Able to read and write in English
Basic level of Maths required (counting stock, using calculators, JBA guns)
Ability to work under some pressure to ensure lines are serviced and able to run continuously
Great attention to detail (completing traceability paperwork, important to be accurate)
Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
Strong communication skills and desire to work with other team members.
If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.
At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better. If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success
What you'll get in return
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- Holidays
- Pension up to 8% matched
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
- Free car parking
- Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
- Free on site gym
- Staff company shop
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.
Please note due to high numbers of applications this role maybe closed before the posted closing date.
Permanent - Full-Time Salary: Up to £14.61 per hourLocation: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S80 2RS