OHL Workforce Readiness Specialist

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13d • £48,374 - £56,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for a passionate OHL Workforce Readiness Specialist to join our Overhead Lines – Safety and Engineering Team! As a Workforce Readiness Coordinator, you'll play a key role in supporting the readiness and success of our Overhead Lines workforce. Providing tactical coordination and administrative support, you'll help maintain accurate role, recruitment, onboarding, training, and competence records while working closely with a diverse range of stakeholders. You'll be responsible for consolidating workforce readiness data, managing action trackers and training matrices, and ensuring MyHub alignment so that all Overhead Lines roles are accurately reflected, maintained, and kept up to date. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to workforce excellence, support operational delivery, and help build a skilled, future-ready workforce. This role can be based from any of our locations, and we support a hybrid way of working. We're also happy to discuss any additional flexibility or adjustments you may need to help make the role work for you.

Requirements

• Relevant operational, engineering, workforce planning, training or competence management experience within OHL or a comparable operational environment.
• Ability to develop workforce plans, training matrices, capability baselines, recruitment forecasts and competence gap analysis outputs.
• Strong planning and organisational skills, with the ability to bring together fragmented information into a clear and actionable delivery plan.
• Ability to influence and coordinate across multiple stakeholders without direct line management authority.
• Analytical approach to workforce modelling, capability baselining, competence gap identification and future-year demand planning.
• Clear communication skills, able to translate operational requirements into workforce, recruitment, onboarding and training actions.
• Collaborative working style, supporting alignment between OHL Operations, Workforce Readiness, training teams and senior decision makers.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and consolidate existing and expected OHL operational and training requirements ensuring current information is brought together into a clear Workforce Readiness view.
• Work with Operations Managers to confirm strategic volumes for apprentices, direct hires, training scheme requirements, Project Lead nominations and SAP nominations.
• Use the Strategic Workforce Plan to operationalise modelled workforce requirements for OHL, including engagement with relevant stakeholders.
• Develop a consolidated recruitment forecast that defines what roles are required, when recruitment activity is needed and how demand aligns to operational plans working with Workforce analysts and recruitment.
• Build and maintain training matrices for all OHL roles, expanding existing operational role matrices to include wider OHL roles and capability requirements.
• Baseline current capabilities and develop entries covering technical competence, authorisations, experience and soft skills requirements.
• Develop a combined recruitment, onboarding and training plan, working with asset operations workforce strategy team and other stakeholders to bring existing information into one coordinated plan.
• Identify competence gaps by comparing current baseline competence against future capability requirements and operational demand.

Benefits

• Bonus based on personal and company performance
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• Share incentive plan
• Technology schemes
• Support via employee assistance lines
• Matched charity giving

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed