Labour Manager

Description Join Trant Engineering and help shape the delivery of complex, high-impact projects. Trant Engineering is a leading EPC contractor with a strong reputation for delivering innovative engineering solutions across the UK and internationally. We are seeking an experienced? Resource Operations Manager ?to join our delivery team on a major petrochemical refinery project. This is a key operational role responsible for planning, coordinating, and optimising construction resources across multiple projects, ensuring the right people, plant, equipment, and materials are available to deliver work safely, efficiently, and on schedule.

Working in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment, you will play a vital role in maximising productivity, maintaining workforce utilisation, and supporting successful project delivery in a live, high-hazard operating environment. What Youll Be Doing

Key Responsibilities Lead the planning, mobilisation, and allocation?of construction resources?across multiple projects?and disciplines. Develop and maintain?workforce plans to?meet current and?future project demands. Coordinate the onboarding, induction, and deployment?of direct employees?and subcontractor personnel. Work collaboratively with?project delivery teams?to forecast labour?requirements and respond?to changing priorities. Monitor resource utilisation, productivity, and performance, identifying opportunities?to improve efficiency. Ensure all personnel?hold the appropriate?competencies, certifications, and site authorisations.

Support recruitment activities?and maintain strong?relationships with labour?providers and subcontract?partners. Produce regular resource?reports, forecasts, and?workforce metrics for?senior management. Promote a positive?safety culture and?ensure all resource?activities comply with?company procedures, client?requirements, and statutory?regulations. Regular client engagement to maintain understanding of requirements to drive productivity in a fast-paced complex environment. Core Values Uphold and promote the Companys Core Values Care, Trust, Respect and Sustainability.

What Were Looking For About You You are?organised and proactive with experience?managing construction resources?within complex industrial?environments. You thrive?in a dynamic?project setting, can?manage competing priorities, and build strong?relationships across multidisciplinary?teams. You will ideally have:
Significant experience in construction resource?planning or operations?management.

Experience with in the?petrochemical, oil & gas, refinery, energy, or?other major industrial?construction sectors. Strong understanding of?workforce planning, mobilisation, and subcontractor management. Knowledge of construction?delivery processes and?project life cycles. Excellent organisational, communication, and stakeholder?management skills. Experience using Microsoft?

Office and resource?planning or project?management systems. A sound understanding?of Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality?(SHEQ) requirements within?high-hazard industries. Relevant management or?construction qualifications?(HNC/HND, Degree, or equivalent) are?desirable. SMSTS or equivalent?site management qualification?is?advantageous. Why Join Trant? At Trant Engineering, we deliver complex, high-value engineering and construction projects across the UK. From process and water treatment to energy infrastructure upgrades, we play a key role in delivering and protecting critical national infrastructure shaping the systems that communities and industries rely on every day.

Our teams design and deliver full EPC solutions, combining technical excellence with practical, hands-on delivery. We offer end-to-end capabilities from concept and design through to manufacturing, construction and commissioning utilising a continually evolving in-house expertise. This means youll work on projects that are varied, challenging and genuinely impactful. Our multi-disciplinary teams bring together specialists in civil, mechanical, electrical, process, instrumentation, and control & automation engineering, alongside our in-house manufacturing of control panels, MCCs, PLCs and SCADA systems.

With over 1,000 people and a strong, growing pipeline of work, its an exciting time to join Trant. We are committed to helping our people succeed through our Career Development Association, providing structured support, mentoring and clear pathways to help you reach your full potential. Whether youre starting out or looking to take your next career step, Trant offers the chance to develop, progress and make a real difference.

Our company benefits package includes. Competitive salary. Company car or car allowance (some levels.) Mentored support within our Career Development Association, to work towards chartership. 24 days holiday (increasing with service)  8 bank holidays. Options to buy additional holiday via salary sacrifice. Company Pension Scheme. Flexible working based on a core hours system. 1 x…