Job Description

Pennington Choices are looking for an Asbestos Area Supervisor to join our North West based team.


Lead, Motivate, and Set the Standard...


Are you a highly skilled Dual role Surveyor/Analyst ready to build on your technical expertise, sharing your knowledge and supporting a team?


We're looking for an exceptional professional with a passion for quality, accuracy, and team development to take on a key supervisory role. As an Asbestos Area Supervisor, you'll not only use your technical competence to uphold industry-leading standards--you'll also guide, support, and motivate a team of Asbestos field staff to deliver their very best. If you thrive on problem?solving, enjoy helping others grow, and want to make a meaningful impact on performance and culture, this is the perfect next step.

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About the role

The main purpose of this role is threefold:


To personally deliver asbestos surveys and other asbestos related project work in accordance with agreed quality standards and productivity targets. To assist in retrospective QA Survey audits and first-hand Quality Assessment Audits. To manage a team of field based staff, and associates and ensure they deliver asbestos surveys and other asbestos related project work in accordance with agreed quality standards and productivity targets.
In conjunction with the Operations Manager - Asbestos and through effective supervision of the field based staff and associates - you will ensure that all client works are delivered in accordance with contractual requirements and to the required level of quality.


This role will be a significant fee earning role within the asbestos team, with approximately 60% to 80% of available time spent delivering asbestos surveys and other asbestos related work on site.

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Role Responsibilities / Objectives

This role will make a significant contribution to the operational and commercial performance of the asbestos team.


You will generate fees through the personal delivery of analytical work, asbestos surveys and other asbestos related project work.


You will directly manage a number of field based asbestos surveyors, analysts and sub-contracted associates deployed on our contracts.


Working collaboratively and proactively with the Operations Manager (Asbestos) and all teams within the asbestos service you will ensure an integrated approach to service delivery, which delivers our key business objectives and targets and our service plan objectives and targets, and delivers clients' contractual requirements. You will foster good relations between the surveying team and rest of the business.


Responsibilities include:

Operational Performance

- you will ensure the achievement of all agreed quality standards of your team in order to support the delivery of key business objectives, service plan objectives and contractual obligations with all clients. You will play a key role in ensuring strong relationships between all functions of the asbestos service, ensure your team is responsive to others' enquiries and ensure a 'first time right' approach.

Line Management

- you will line manage a team of field staff, and be responsible for the performance delivery of our associate pool. You will provide effective management and ensure line management activities are delivered to a consistently high standard. This will include onboarding, induction, training, auditing, setting of objectives, on going management, including regular 1to1s and performance management/reviews and off boarding

Supervision of Trainees

- you will be responsible for the onboarding and day to day management and auditing of all trainees. Supported by the Operations Manager - Quality and Training you will ensure they receive the appropriate opportunities and training and to ensure they succeed in qualifying to undertake surveying and analytical work.

Team resourcing

- you will work with the Operations Manager - Asbestos to ensure a fair and robust approach to talent acquisition for the asbestos field team.

Team communications

- you will check in regularly with all team members - eg via 1-1 calls, and schedule regular opportunities for sharing of knowledge in toolbox talks and team briefings, building a cohesive team culture.

Inter-team communications

- You will play a key role in ensuring strong relationships between all functions of the asbestos function working together with the Operations Manager - Client Delivery to ensure the field team work cohesively with the other functions of the asbestos business, providing a two way process for feedback and continuous improvements

Quality Control

- you will manage the field based staff, including associates in ensuring we remain consistently and fully up to date with asbestos legislation, guidance and industry best practice including UKAS accreditation and quality management arrangements and relevant legislation including Health and Safety. You will ensure attention to detail and high levels of quality in all asbestos related work and embed this with all members of your team.

Auditing

- supported by the Operations Manager- Quality and Training, you will deliver a robust auditing process and instil a compliance culture with the field based team, including associates. You will undertake an agreed number of monthly quality assurance audits of field based staff, including associates to support our approach to quality control and ensure that learning is applied and embedded from audit results. You will conduct thorough audits with full integrity in all cases and report all findings within our required timescales to the Operations Manager- Quality and Training.

Health & Safety

- you will embed a strong health and safety culture within the field-based team, including associates through appropriate induction and ongoing training and briefings. You will also ensure all aspects of our health and safety framework are implemented and adhered to.

Information Technology

- working with the Systems &Training Coordinator you will assist field based staff with their day to day IT requirements; delivering on site support to ensure they can carry out their work effectively.

Management Information

- you will utilise standardised monthly management information produced to make interventions as required to drive quality standards and drive levels of productivity.

Customer Relationship Management

-You will provide an operational point of client contact as and when required and in support of the Operations Manager -Asbestos when required.

Commercial Performance

- you will contribute to the achievement of all agreed financial performance targets (turnover, gross profit and net profit) through the achievement of agreed productivity targets for you and for your asbestos team, aligned with specific contractual requirements of each client.

Complex Projects

-you will be involved with the on-site delivery of more complex asbestos projects as and when required.
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Role requirements, skills and/or experience

Required:

P403/P404


7 years relevant industry experience

Desirable:

P402


Previous line management/supervisory experience or line management qualification/training or willingness to undertake same

Functional / Technical Skills: Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment. Experience of use a tablet and asbestos management software eg TEAMs/Alpha Tracker software would be advantageous. IT literate with experience of using MS Outlook and Teams.

Customer Focus: Has previous experience of working in a customer facing capacity. Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

Hiring and Staffing: Has intuition for identifying talent; follows established processes to hire the best people available from inside or outside the organisation; is not afraid of selecting strong people; assembles talented staff

Interpersonal Skills: Has excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work well with colleagues

Motivating others: Creates a climate in which people want to do their best; can motivate direct reports and team or project members; can identify and develop each person's strengths and use them to get the best out of people;; empowers others; invites input from each person and shares ownership and visibility; makes each individual feel their work is important; is someone people like working for and with.

Team communication: Is good at establishing clear directions; sets stretching objectives; distributes workload appropriately; lays out work in a well planned and organised manner and can manage and plan their own workload; maintains two-way dialogue with others on work and results; brings out the best in people. Provides the information people need to know to do their job and to feel good about being a member of the team and organisation; provides individuals information so they can make accurate decisions; is timely with providing information and reports / audits.

Performance Improvement/management: Deals with concerns about direct reports firmly and in a timely manner; acts with integrity, doesn't allow problems to fester; regularly reviews performance and holds timely discussions; can make difficult decisions; deals effectively with people issues. Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and actionable positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand. Willing to have the 'difficult conversations' .

Interpersonal Skills: Has excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work well with colleagues.

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Benefits / The Package

Pennington Choices has been recognised by Best Companies as being a very good employer each year since 2018. We offer a working environment that is stimulating, where our people are given the tools they need to help shape their careers.


With approachable and supportive line management and a proven track record of promoting from within, we encourage our people to be the best they can be, and we provide them with training, variety and support to help them grow.


We also provide colleagues with:


Competitive salary and transparent salary bands Commitment to super flexible and remote hybrid working where applicable 37.5-hour working week 26 days annual leave plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata) Additional leave for length of service up to 31 days each year Opportunity to buy additional annual leave or sell surplus leave Enhanced employer pension contributions of 4% when you contribute 6% Enhanced maternity and paternity pay Regular Learning and Development opportunities Regular company social events including an annual summer BBQ Cycle to work scheme, offering savings of at least 32% on a new bike and cycle safety accessories
Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme, saving 30-60% on an electric car (subject to eligibility) Access to an online platform providing employee discounts on hundreds of high street brands Access to private healthcare Paid sick leave allowance each year Free eye tests and contribution towards new glasses/frames Access to Employee Assistance Programme Referral programme offering up to 1,000 Option for personal use of company vehicle (subject to eligibility) Access to paid volunteering days in support of local charities/initiatives Length of service reward Wellness programmes including annual flu jab
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Here's a little more about us

Pennington Choices is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such we recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristics protected by law.


We provide property surveying and consultancy services to organisations nationwide. We have a wealth of experience working with more than 800 public and private sector organisations across social housing, NHS, education, and rail since 2000. At the heart of what makes Pennington Choices special is our people. We live by our values and we also know there's more to life than work, which is why we will encourage you to stay active, nurture your mental health, and create a fulfilling work/life balance.


Our head office is a converted barn in the picturesque Cheshire countryside, located just 3 minutes from M56 Jct10, and we have regional offices in Bromley, Kent. We are a close-knit organisation with people at our very core, and we strive for excellence in everything we do. As winners of Employer of the Year at both the Warrington Business Awards and the South London Business Awards, we've been recognised by Best Companies as a very good employer each year since 2018.



This is an exciting time to join us. We are a business with a strong track record of growth, trusted by clients across housing, health, education, and commercial sectors to deliver safe, sustainable, and high-quality services. As part of the Mears Group, and as a proud B Corporation, we are well-positioned to continue growing while making a positive impact on our people, clients, communities, and the environment.