Labour Manager

Labour Manager

Department: Operations Management/Site Operations Management

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Southampton

Reporting To: Dean Heaphy

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 Managerto 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, mobilisation, and allocation of construction resources across multiple project sand disciplines.
• Develop and maintain workforce plans tomeet current andfuture project demands.
• Coordinate the onboarding, induction, and deployment of direct employee sand subcontractor personnel.
• Work collaboratively with project delivery teamsto forecast labour requirements and respondto 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 forsenior management.
• Promote a positive safety culture andensure 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 Company’s Core Values – Care, Trust, Respect and Sustainability.

About You

You are organised and proactive with experience managing construction resources within complex industrial environments.

You thrivein a dynamic project setting, canmanage 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, orother 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 qualificationisadvantageous.

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…