The Vacancy
⭐ Operations Manager – Renewables
📍 Covering Swindon ¦ Leamington Spa ¦ Cambridge
🏢 Liberty
Are you passionate about driving sustainable change and transforming homes through low‑carbon solutions? 🌱
Do you have experience in Renewables, M&E, Social Housing, Wave 3 retrofit, and planned works?
If you’re a strong leader who thrives in a people‑focused, customer‑driven environment — this is the opportunity for you! 🙌
🔎 Job Overview
You will support the Operations Director in delivering both the strategic and operational management of our renewables and planned‑works programmes. Your leadership will directly influence the quality of service we deliver to thousands of customers, helping to create warmer, safer, more energy‑efficient homes. 🏡⚡
You’ll help shape performance, culture, and service excellence while aligning with Liberty’s values of passion, openness, respect and trust.
👥 PEOPLE FOCUSED
You’ll:
• Manage & supervise Site Managers, ensuring they lead multi‑discipline teams (operatives, agency staff, subcontractors, trainees) effectively 👷♂️👷♀️
• Prepare and deliver toolbox talks, team meetings & performance updates
• Work alongside Business Development & Commercial teams to ensure profitability and risk mitigation
• Ensure Site Managers uphold Liberty’s standards, policies & codes of conduct
🧭 ALWAYS ACCOUNTABLE
You will:
• Ensure operatives receive work in the most efficient way using Liberty IT systems (Power BI / FocalPoint / SharePoint / PASHub)
• Oversee quality assurance procedures for ASHP, Solar PV, ventilation, and wider planned works installations
• Monitor and report on KPIs, performance and quality 📊
• Ensure pre & post inspections are completed, including photographic evidence
• Manage resource levels to meet programme demands
• Work with Commercial teams on financial budgets, valuations & cost control
• Support tender responses, RFI submissions and bid compliance
• Ensure PAS 2030 / PAS 2035 compliance for all retrofit activities
• Lead accreditation processes (PAS, MCS, NAPIT, TrustMark)
🛠️ What You’ll Need
• Experience in Renewables, M&E, Social Housing, Wave 3 retrofit, and planned works
• Strong understanding of ASHPs, Solar PV, ventilation, retrofit standards and energy‑efficiency solutions
• Excellent leadership, communication & people‑management skills
• Confident client‑facing skills with the ability to build strong relationships 🤝
• Strong commercial awareness & understanding of compliance frameworks
🚀 Ready to Lead the Future of Renewables?
Join Liberty and help us make homes safer, greener, smarter and better for our customers.
Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.
We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:
Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.
We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.
Awards
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Inside Housing Development Awards
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2022 Construction News Awards Winner
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Investors in People 2022
GOLD AWARD
Considerate Constructors Schemes (CCS) National Site Awards
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2022 Top 50 Employers for Women
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2022 Working Families Best Practice Awards