About the Role:
Join the dynamic team located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Harwell, Oxfordshire. You will be involved with experiments at Diamond Light Source National Synchrotron Facility, Central Laser Facility and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, a world-leading centre for research. The local team comprises PSS technical and administrative support staff, academics, research fellows, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students based locally in Harwell, Oxfordshire. You will engage with a wide range of people across the site including University of Manchester Research Groups based locally on site at Harwell, and with a much broader academic community across university staff based in Manchester and various academic, governmental and industrial collaborators both nationally and internationally. You will play an integral part in supporting the development of world-leading research for applying synchrotron science to key research challenges.
The Deputy Operations Manager will provide day to day local support to the Director and Deputy Director of The University of Manchester at Harwell and to the Head of Operations based in Manchester. He or she will free up both the Director and Head of Operations from responsibility for the day-to-day local operational matters including the management and development of a high quality, PSS administrative and technical team. Working together with both the Director, Deputy Director and the Head of Operations, the Deputy Operations Manager will ensure the local implementation of The University of Manchester at Harwell’s strategic and operational plans. The Deputy Operations Manager will also support the Director, Deputy Director and Head of Operations to help ensure the facilities conformity with all relevant legal and statutory compliance.
What you will get in return:
1. Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
2. Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
3. Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
4. Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
5. Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers