Area Operations Manager - Temporary Opportunity Feb 2025 - September 2025.
Salary: £39,588 p.a (FTE) + £5,100 Car Cash Allowance per annum
Working Hours: 37 Hours Monday - Friday, Ocassional Weekend Working.
Location: You will be based and work out off Lighterage Yard, Chester Way, Northwich, CW9 5JJ, with regular travel around the operational area of the Northwest region. The area of responsibility covers the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal from Preston brook too Hardingswood, Kidsgrove.
About the Trust
We’re the charity who look after and bring to life 2,000 miles of canals and rivers. Our waterways contribute to the health and wellbeing of local communities and economies, creating attractive and connected places to live, work, volunteer and spend leisure time. These historic, natural and cultural assets form part of the strategic and local green-blue infrastructure network, linking urban and rural communities as well as habitats.
Our waterways are on the doorstep of 8 million people and reach some of the most deprived communities within the UK. By caring for our waterways and promoting their use we believe we can improve the wellbeing of our nation. Come and be part of it.
We are looking for an Area Operations Manager to cover the operational area within the North West regional canal network, working from home with a reporting base of Tardebigge, Bromsgrove B60 1NF.
In this role you will lead a team of 11 colleagues (Team Leader, Volunteering Leaders, Operatives), as well as numerous volunteers and 3 seasonal colleagues, focusing on day-to-day operational management and maintaining safety management protocols across the majority of the River Weaver and Trent and Mersey Canal. See our network here: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-and-river-network
About the Team
Having established ourselves as a major charity, we are now on a journey to deliver ambitious new plans – and central to this is the area structure that will enable us to deliver an outstanding service to all users and customers across our amazingly diverse network. Join us, as one of our new Area Operations Managers, and you’ll play a key part in making sure this happens, as you take ownership of the quality and presentation of the waterways in your area.
You’ll be the main contact for a huge variety of people – not just colleagues and volunteers but internal users, visitors, customers and community representatives as well. By engaging with them, listening to them, and understanding their needs, you’ll be able to build up a complete picture of service-related and operational issues. You will also be responsible for delivering operational activities, works and improvement programmes across your area, leading and motivating internal teams and supervising contractors to ensure a successful outcome every time.
Throughout your work, you will be addressing key customer concerns and using your local knowledge to ensure we operate a reliable waterway network. And, most important of all, you will be helping us prove that life’s better by water, by transforming our canals and rivers into spaces that bring wellbeing benefits to huge numbers of local people every day.
See how we make difference: (https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us/how-we-make-a-difference).
See our-values (https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/refresh/media/thumbnail/35240-our-values.pdf).
The regularity & flexibility of travel will be discussed further at interview stage. Regular accessibility to this network is essential to enable managerial function.
