Team Leader - Ranges

Main Responsibility

Primary duties

• To be responsible for coordinating a team as the first line manager by being the first point of contact, task allocation and work checking. This includes conducting work place talks, coordinating annual leave requests, overtime claims, informal ABC process management and benchMARC progress meetings.
• To ensure that the Training Estate Facilities are fit for purpose in accordance with the allocation and ensures compliance  e.g. preparing training areas for use, preventative maintenance, grounds maintenance, operation and maintenance of plant and equipment, forestry and arborical work, manufacturing targets, housekeeping, equipment testing and calibrating, sustainability tasks, general maintenance, soft FM, stock management, waste services, reactive maintenance, vegetation maintenance, operation and maintenance of plant equipment.

• To ensure that the Training Estate Facilities adhere to safe systems of work e.g. control of access, warning systems including training control offices, radar and flags, reporting defects, reporting unauthorised persons on the Training Area Estate.

• To liaise with all stakeholders to ensure effective training area delivery e.g. handover/ take back of facilities with service users including providing information on ‘maximising’ the facility, the Employers representatives regarding training area safety and usage, the disposal of hazardous military waste, direct and advice wider training estate users including the general public and other contractors regarding the removal of waste and the receipt of goods.

• To complete all relevant documentation utilising both IT and paper based systems.

Secondary duties

• To carry out additional works in response to additional contract requirements (Fee earning)

• Maintain competence, skills and abilities within relevant discipline.

• To ensure that the Training Estate Facilities are fit for purpose in compliance  e.g. maintenance relating to other trade skills, operation and maintenance of plant equipment, IT, working on other sites with travel where required.

• Mentoring apprentices or trainees.

• Accept appointment as Authorised Person (AP) for safe systems of work in relevant skills discipline as required to support the business.

• Driving tasks including specialist plant machinery where required.

The Ideal Candidate

What you know

• Knowledge of H&S such as COSHH, manual handling, risk assessments and safe systems of work to IOSH Managing Safely Level.

• Knowledge of working in a rural environment.

• Knowledge of range assignment instructions and range standing orders.

• Experience of track and fencing maintenance.

• Experience as a range/ training area user.

• Experience of communicating with customers.

• Experience in Estate Services and Maintenance.

What you can do

• Take the lead and be responsible for other people working in the team.

• Follow company policies and focus on the informal stages of people management.

• Communicate clearly with people on all levels.

• Work in a diverse multi-tasking mobile team environment

• Basic laboring, caretaking and housekeeping skills

• Rural, forestry or arborical skills.

• Demonstrate proven track record of achieving objectives

• Ability to operate rural plant and machinery (holds valid certificate)

• Ability to operate and maintain a range of tools and equipment

• Ability to complete documentation

• Basic IT skills

• Be vaccinated against work place risks e.g. Tetanus, Polio and Hepatitis A & B

• Willingness to undertake training to work in high risk areas e.g. confined spaces, working at height.

Package Description

Landmarc will provide you with a competitive salary; in addition to this, we also offer the following main benefits, amongst many others:

Pension

Landmarc offers all employees an opportunity to join our company stakeholder pension scheme, whereby the company will contribute up to 8% of the employee’s salary.

Holiday

Employees are entitled to 25 days’ pro rata during each year of employment plus public holidays. Three extra discretionary days added to our annual leave allowances at Christmas.

Annual leave allowance will increase in recognition of your continued service.

Holiday purchase – purchase up to 10 more days’ holiday to use throughout the year.

Other benefits

Edenred – employee savings scheme

Annual salary review, in consultation with the recognised Trade Unions

Life assurance insured for three times your annual salary, to help the loved ones.

Reimbursement of professional fees and on-going training

Family friendly policy

Sick pay

About the Company

Landmarc provides the support services that enable Armed Forces from around the world to prepare for frontline military operations across the UK Defence Training Estate (DTE). This includes maintaining and delivering safe and sustainable infrastructure, managing and operating training areas and ranges and delivering multi-million pound projects to improve vital training assets.

By joining Landmarc you will be supporting our vision to provide the best training experience we can for our Armed Forces. We are the first and only Special Purpose Vehicle to be contracted by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) as their Industry Partner on the UK Defence Training Estate and the only company that is solely dedicated to the UK DTE, delivering essential support services since 2003.