Operations Manager
Location: Reading (with travel as required)
Employment type: Full Time
Working Hours: Monday to Friday
What’s in it for you…
We believe in looking after our people, and it shows. When you join Ipsum, you’re not just taking a job — you’re starting a career with real support behind it.
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Option to buy up to 5 additional holidays
Group Personal Pension Plan
Career development & progression with professional qualifications
24/7 virtual GP and Mental Health support services
Cycle to Work scheme
Discount club – supermarkets, phone bills, gyms & more
Life assurance cover
Long service recognition
Enhanced Maternity Pay
Paid volunteering opportunities
About the role…
As a Framework Manager within Ipsum Water England & Wales, you will lead the safe, profitable and efficient delivery of operational work programmes in line with company objectives. Reporting to the Regional Director, you will oversee framework performance, customer relationships, business improvement initiatives, resource planning and commercial delivery, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time and to the highest standards.
As a Framework Manager you will…
About you…
We’re looking for a commercially minded leader with strong utilities experience and a proven track record of delivering operational and financial performance.
You will have:
Key skills include excellent communication, stakeholder management, organisation, leadership, problem-solving, flexibility and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
Our commitment to Equal Opportunities...
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Next steps...
If you’re interested in this opportunity, please apply or reach out to the Careers Team for more info!
At Ipsum, we provide specialist engineering services across the UK’s regulated water and energy companies and private sector businesses.
We work with our customers to maintain, optimise and develop their above and below ground assets to ensure security and resilience, and with our smart systems and ways of working, we ensure we deliver on time, on budget and safely.
At Ipsum, we develop long-term working relationships with our customers by providing essential utility services on both public and private networks. We have many long-term contracts and framework arrangements in place which are built upon great customer service, safe working practices and the ability to flex and deploy specialist skillsets at short notice.
The growth of Ipsum has been built upon our people and our ability to meet the demanding and ever-changing needs of our customers. The UK utility sector is evolving and expanding to meet increasing customer demand, regulatory-driven outcomes and to exploit new innovative technologies, at Ipsum we will continue to grow in this sector by being a reliable, flexible and agile service partner that helps customers meet these new challenges.
As we know, utility service provision is not a 9 to 5 business, our customers don’t switch off their networks or assets at night, or at the weekends, or on holidays, or when things are quiet. They need them to work round the clock – and we at Ipsum are right beside them 24/7 to make sure they do.
We pride ourselves in providing specialist scheduled maintenance services, being able to respond to an individual call-out or mobilise onto a major upgrade project and that our customers can rely on Ipsum 24/7/365.
