Lokal driftschef

Job Description

Nordex has an exciting opportunity for the role of Local Operations Manager covering our windfarms across Co Kerry and surrounding areas

Contract Type: Permanent
Location: This role is based at our Listowel Service Point in Co Kerry and covers windfarms across this region including Co Cork

How can you make a difference?

Working as an integral part of the UK & Ireland Region service team, the Local Operations Manager provides strong leadership of the service teams in the region, being a role model for safety and delivering effective financial management for the region.

As a leader, this role requires strong commercial acumen, leadership skills with the ability to drive success through the team, and a customer-focused approach. This role is also responsible for ensuring that all service activities are completed within specified timeframes and quality standards.

What will you be doing?

Key activities for this role include:

• Overall responsibility for QHSE in your respective service area, implementing internal and external regulations as required to ensure QHSE compliance

• Displaying Role model behaviours and actively driving safety and safe working practices in your Service area

• Overall responsibility for the financial and commercial performance of your Service area (CSO) including budget planning and performance

• Effectively driving and reporting on KPI's meeting all reporting requirements

• Overall responsibility for operational performance in the service area by ensuring availability of Wind Turbine Generator (WTG)

• Managing stock levels and inventory

• Providing leadership to the site teams and effectively delegating to team leads to ensure all work is carried out effectively, safely and to the required standard as well as reviewing and managing team performance

• Recruitment and development of all service employees within the service area including the identification of training and development needs to build and maintain a high-performing team

• Creating and implementing staffing plans for the area

• Analysing operational data to monitor team, individuals' and wind farm performance and act as appropriate to share successes, address shortfalls and make improvements

• Ensuring that quality standards are always met and acting as a role model for quality

• Ensuring a smooth transfer from build phase team to the Service team

• Creating business plans for new service points in case of growth in the area, or needed for relocation due to business development

• Overseeing site safety auditing and reporting

• Ensuring management of site facilities

• Management of large operations (such as gearbox exchange) and improvement initiatives

• Managing customer operational topics and ensuring effective and collaborative communication

• Reviewing reporting from the site: Maintenance, HSE, timekeeping and making sure that reports will be submitted on time

• Checking employees' time tracking regularly to ensure compliance with Working Time Regulations and submit correct data for payroll purposes

• Working closely and in cooperation with local Project Management

• Working on other initiatives to improve efficiency and competitiveness

What are we looking for?

The successful candidate will have experience of working in a leadership role within the wind industry or a similar sector and will have completed an apprenticeship or have relevant experience in a Mechanical or Electrical engineering role.

You will have a working knowledge in commercial or financial controls and be comfortable with managing financial performance, KPI's and budgets. A qualification or relevant experience in business management would also be desirable.

Experience of managing remote field-based teams is essential to this role alongside having the ability to deal with the full spectrum of people management.

Other essential skills and behaviour required for this role include:

• Strong Computer literacy with the able to use MS Office and workload management systems (SAP)
• Experience in dealing with complex businesses, preferably matrix organisations
• A strong customer focused approach
• Excellent decision making, planning and prioritisation skills
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Flexibility and adaptable
• A systematic working approach
• Strong team working, collaboration and delegating approach

Due to the nature of the role, the successful candidate is required to hold a full UK Driving Licence. There is also a requirement to travel on a regular basis which will require nights away from home.

What we can offer you?

Time Off

• Our teams receive 33 days annual leave including bank holidays. After two years continual service you will be entitled to an additional day's holiday per annum (Maximum 5 days).
• You will also an extra day off for your birthday.
• In addition we also offer our employees the opportunity to purchase up to 5 day of additional annual leave every year.

Health & Wellbeing - The Health and Wellbeing of our employees is incredibly important, which is why we have different benefits for our employees including:

• Employee Assistance Programme (offering therapy sessions)
• Bike2Work Scheme
• Paid Eye tests & contribution towards Glasses
• Company Sick pay scheme
• The option to purchase Private Healthcare

Volunteering - All our employees can use 2 paid working days per calendar year to carry out volunteering activities in your local community.

Family friendly - Our family friendly policies include, Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave. Compassionate Leave, and Life Insurance.

Memberships - Nordex will reimburse the cost of one annual professional subscription fee to one professional institution relevant to your work.

Recruitment Process

The closing date for this role is Monday 7th September 2026 however, please be aware that this role could close early if we receive an overwhelming response.

The first stage of the recruitment process requires you to submit your CV via the Apply Now button. The recruitment team will then review your application and be in touch to confirm if you have been successful in reaching the next stage of the process.

We appreciate all the applications we receive and will be in touch with you as soon as we can, so please watch out for our emails or phone calls (which maybe from a withheld number)

Nordex Values, Diversity & Inclusion

Here at Nordex we interact with a variety of people and cultures. Our values of Integrity, Respect, Colleagueship, and Ownership are the unifying force for all departments and regions around the world, these are the standards we walk by.
Our mission is to offer cutting edge, reliable products, and services, generating value for our customers and stakeholders .... All whilst protecting the environment.

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