Resource Manager
If you’re passionate about optimising teams, improving performance, and ensuring capability for the future, this role offers the opportunity to truly shape how OCU delivers for our customers.
Resource Manager
Fully office / site based role
OCU is at the forefront of the UK’s utilities and energy transition sector. We deliver critical infrastructure across Substations, Grid Solutions, Manufacturing & O&M, and Data Centre/ICP projects – and we’re growing fast.
To support this growth, we’re looking for a Resource Manager to take ownership of how our people, skills, and assets are deployed across the business. This is a high-impact role where your decisions directly shape project performance, workforce capability, and operational success.
What You’ll Do
As our Resource Manager, you’ll be the strategic link between operational needs and workforce delivery. You will:
Plan & Allocate Resources
- Ensure the right people, plant, materials, and tools are deployed at the right time across multiple projects.
- Adapt quickly to shifting priorities and operational demands.
Lead & Develop Teams
- Line manage site-based teams including Supervisors, Electricians / Wirepeople, Jointers, and Fitters.
- Support performance, engagement, and ongoing skills development.
Shape Workforce Capability
- Partner with Project Leads and Operations Managers to forecast capacity and future resource requirements.
- Identify skills gaps, risks, and constraints – and help build solutions.
Optimise External Labour
- Manage and develop relationships with third-party labour providers to ensure flexible, compliant, value-for-money resourcing.
Support Recruitment & Onboarding
- Work closely with HR and Talent Acquisition to secure talent and support onboarding and upskilling.
Provide Critical Visibility & Insight
- Produce accurate utilisation data, dashboards, and resource reports.
- Support tendering, bidding, and mobilisation by providing resource intelligence.
Drive Standardisation & Continuous Improvement
- Help roll out consistent resource management processes across all OCU Connect teams.
- Champion compliance, safety, and high performance in everything you do.
Your Impact
You’ll be accountable for:
- Effective and timely resource deployment
- 95%+ planned utilisation
- Zero project delays due to resourcing
- Accurate, up-to-date resource data
- Strong stakeholder relationships
- Quarterly forecasting and capability planning
- Driving continuous improvement in resource processes
This isn’t just a scheduling role – it’s a strategic function that underpins project delivery and operational excellence.
What You’ll Bring
- Experience in resource planning, workforce deployment, or operational management
- A background in engineering, utilities, construction, or infrastructure (preferred)
- Experience managing external labour and supplier performance
- Strong organisational, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- A data-driven mindset with the ability to make informed decisions quickly
- Knowledge of industry safety and compliance standards
- Experience with scheduling/resource management systems (desirable)
- Experience managing or coordinating site-based teams (advantageous)
Why Join OCU?
Because what we do matters.
We’re committed to delivering sustainable, innovative solutions that support the UK’s transition to a cleaner, more resilient energy future.
Our values guide everything we do:
We care about safety. We lead with integrity. We strive to be better every day. We make a positive impact. We deliver to grow. We are one company united.
At OCU, you’ll be part of a forward-thinking organisation that invests in its people, grows its capability, and tackles some of the most exciting challenges in the sector.
Apply now and help power tomorrow.
- Division
- OCU Energy
- Locations
- Stockport
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Employment Status
- PAYE/Staff
Stockport
Our People, our Culture, our Values
As a business, we pride ourselves on operating a ‘People First’ culture, striving to constantly deliver on our 5 core company values.
1. We Care about Safety - It is our goal for everyone working on our behalf to go home healthy and safe at the end of each and every day.
2. We lead with Integrity - Integrity is central to everything we do. Without it, we wouldn’t have the relationships with our clients, nor would we have built an enviable reputation within the industry.
3. We strive to be Better everyday - We take pride in everything we do. This involves a meticulous approach to our work, endeavouring to make each day better than the last.
4. We make a Positive Impact - We want to make the places we work in better; leaving a lasting infrastructure and social legacy. We believe in proactivity to maximise impact.
5. We Deliver to Grow - The successful delivery of frameworks and contracts feeds our ability to grow strategically and strengthen OCU to expand the business and capabilities even further.
About OCU
Established in 1994, OCU Group is one of the fastest growing utility engineering contractors in the UK, with a long successful track record in delivering customer-focused civil engineering solutions.
Working directly with many of the country’s leading blue-chip power, water, telecoms and rail clients, we are looking for the very best talent to join our growing team.
We pride ourselves on empowering our employees and offering opportunities for them to take control of their own personal development and career progression in a supportive environment.
We believe that being successful is a choice.
We choose to be successful.
We are OCU, ‘One Company United’.
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