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 experiencedResource 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 allocationof construction resourcesacross multiple projectsand disciplines.
• Develop and maintainworkforce plans tomeet current andfuture project demands.
• Coordinate the onboarding, induction, and deploymentof direct employeesand subcontractor personnel.
• Work collaboratively withproject delivery teamsto forecast labourrequirements and respondto changing priorities.
• Monitor resource utilisation, productivity, and performance, identifying opportunitiesto improve efficiency.
• Ensure all personnelhold the appropriatecompetencies, certifications, and site authorisations.
• Support recruitment activitiesand maintain strongrelationships with labourproviders and subcontractpartners.
• Produce regular resourcereports, forecasts, andworkforce metrics forsenior management.
• Promote a positivesafety culture andensure all resourceactivities comply withcompany procedures, clientrequirements, and statutoryregulations.
• 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 areorganised and proactive with experiencemanaging construction resourceswithin complex industrialenvironments.

You thrivein a dynamicproject setting, canmanage competing priorities, and build strongrelationships across multidisciplinaryteams.

You will ideally have:

• Significant experience in construction resourceplanning or operationsmanagement.
• Experience within thepetrochemical, oil & gas, refinery, energy, orother major industrialconstruction sectors.
• Strong understanding ofworkforce planning, mobilisation, and subcontractor management.
• Knowledge of constructiondelivery processes andproject lifecycles.
• Excellent organisational, communication, and stakeholdermanagement skills.
• Experience using MicrosoftOffice and resourceplanning or projectmanagement systems.
• A sound understandingof Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality(SHEQ) requirements withinhigh-hazard industries.

Relevant management orconstruction qualifications(HNC/HND, Degree, or equivalent) aredesirable.

SMSTS or equivalentsite 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 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 you'll 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, it's 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 you're 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 Professional Membership paid annually.
• Hybrid working.
• Employee assistance program.
• Free onsite parking.
• Bike to Work scheme.
• Discretionary annual bonus.