Alfred H Knight has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Operations Manager to join our Energy Services division, based in Rotherham. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations at our Rotherham site and managing our field-based waste business, with additional support provided to the Olympic Park waste operations. Your focus will be on ensuring the efficient, effective, and high-quality delivery of weighing, sampling, consulting, and inspection services, meeting client deadlines and priorities.
You will play a key role in supporting and developing the Rotherham and field-based teams, driving staff development and facilities expansion within the UK. Additionally, you will assist the Business Operations Manager in managing operations related to solid fuel streams across the wider group. As the solid fuels division experiences significant growth, your role will be pivotal in advancing initiatives, particularly in the biomass, RDF, and SRF industries, both in the UK and internationally. This position requires flexibility for both UK and international travel.
ABOUT US
Alfred H Knight is a totally independent, family owned business spanning five generations. A global network of strategically placed offices and laboratories enable global trade by providing independent inspection, analysis and consultancy services to the metals and minerals, solid fuels and agriculture industries.
We have honed and carefully crafted our reputation. Delivering knowledge and professionalism in all aspects of weighing, sampling and analysis. We thrive by continuing to re-invest in our facilities, technology and people.
DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?
To be successful at Alfred H Knight you will need to display the following:
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND WORK EXPERIENCE
Required Competencies
- Leadership and people skills. Ability to motivate internal and external stakeholders to participate in solution-driven, forward leaning business development initiatives.
- Networking skills. Ability to collaborate, cooperate and network effectively within a demanding, culturally diverse matrix organisation.
- Operations skills. A "doer" and hands-on leader who likes to "roll the sleeves up" and get things done.
- Emotionally intelligent, persuasive and articulate, enabling cooperation and collaboration at all levels.
- Accomplished ability to understand and operate effectively in a fast paced environment.
- Accomplished expertise in communicating up, down and laterally in a clear and concise manner.
- Accomplished ability to understand, interpret and execute given guidance with minimal supervision.
- Strong written and spoken communication skills in English.
- Strong relationship building skills internally and externally.
- Be structured and have the ability to operate, drive and close pipeline driven opportunities.
- Have a deep understanding of the sector, its regulations and future outlook.
Required Work Experience
- Understand the customer and the customer culture - including the motivations, freedoms/constraints and expectations at all levels of technical, financial and user buyers.
- Use this information, along with technical expertise, to produce solutions that meet the sector needs and advance the business of AHK. Produce proposals of these solutions that capture this messaging, on both tactical and strategic level.
- Understand problems from multiple perspectives, in order to connect multi-faceted issues with clear and effective solutions.
- Create and maintain collegiate, efficient, respectful and mutually valuable relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Innovative and able to think laterally to develop solutions from first principles.
- Must have previously supervised or managed direct reports.
- Exposure to, and preferably operating experience in the circular economy.
- Experience and demonstrated success in working in a cross-border, international, matrix structure organisation.
- Experience of living/working in an emerging market would be an advantage.
Required Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent professional certification and experience.
Travel
- Travel as required both domestically and internationally.
- Must have the ability for spontaneous travel.
- Must have a valid passport and ability to obtain visas as necessary.
- Must have a full valid driving licence.
BENEFITS
We are offering an excellent opportunity with a salary and benefits package to match including pension, life assurance and an employee assistance programme.