Operations Manager – Governance, Compliance & Control Accountabili accountable for ensuring that the following operational support, compliance, and governance functions are properly executed, controlled, and reported by yourself, coordinators and support staff.
1. Subcontractor Onboarding & Management
Accountable for ensuring that subcontractors are correctly onboarded, compliant, and controlled before being deployed operationally.
Responsibilities:
- Identify regions with internal resource shortages and identify and use subcontractors until such time internal resource count can be increased
- Follow the approved subcontractor onboarding process in full
- Verify that all required documentation is submitted, valid, and approved
- Prevented deployment of non-compliant subcontractors
- Review onboarding status and gaps regularly
- Intervene where standards are bypassed
- Escalate risks or repeated non-compliance
- Ensure subcontractor issues do not impact operations or clients
- Ensure financial processes related to subcontractors are complied with (PO’s and invoices)
2. Client Security Vetting
Accountable for ensuring all client security vetting requirements are met prior to site access.
Responsibilities:
- Processing of client-required security clearances
- Tracking approval status and expiry dates
- Secure storage and maintenance of vetting records
- Ensure no personnel are deployed without valid clearance
- Monitor compliance trends and delays
- Address process failures that cause access or operational delays
- Provide assurance to senior management that security compliance is controlled
3. Fleet Compliance
Accountable for ensuring that the fleet is compliant, available, and fit for operational use.
Responsibilities:
- Track vehicle licensing, and service schedules
- Identify and report non-compliance or availability risks
- Maintain up-to-date fleet compliance records
- Conduct regular compliance checks on company fleet, including licensing, roadworthiness, and service schedules.
- Monitor driver behaviour reports, including speeding, harsh braking, harsh cornering, and other unsafe driving indicators.
- Identify repeat or high-risk driving behaviour and ensure corrective and disciplinary action is applied in line with company policy.
- Continuously monitor fuel consumption and fuel spend per vehicle and per driver, validating usage against kilometres travelled and operational requirements.
- Investigate abnormal fuel usage and ensure fuel abuse or vehicle misuse is addressed and escalated where required.
- Track and report any fleet non-compliance, safety risk, or cost abuse issues to management, together with corrective actions implemented.
4. Health & Safety Compliance (Oversight Accountability)
Accountable for ensuring that health and safety protocols are implemented, followed, and enforced across operations.
This includes oversight of:
- PPE availability, issuance, and compliance
- Adherence to company health and safety policies
- Preparation for and support of safety audits
- Accurate safety reporting
- Review safety compliance trends, not only incidents
- Ensure corrective actions are implemented and verified
- Prevent repeat safety failures
- Drive accountability through coordinators
- Drive Safety360 system document compliance through H&S department
5. Tools & Company Assets
Accountable for ensuring company assets are controlled, traceable, and protected.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain an up-to-date asset and tool register
- Track issuance, return, and condition of assets
- Monitor replacement needs
- Review asset control reports
- Address losses, misuse, or poor control
- Ensure asset availability supports operations
- Prevent operational delays due to poor asset governance
6. Stock Management (Oversight Accountability)
Accountable for ensuring stock levels are visible, controlled, and sufficient to support operations.
Responsibilities:
- Monitoring consumables, tools, and PPE stock levels
- Usage tracking and reporting
- Replenishment planning and supplier coordination
- Ensure shortages are identified before impacting operations
- Review usage trends and abnormal consumption
- Prevent emergency procurement caused by poor planning
- Ensure stock governance supports operational efficiency
7. Operational Support & Governance
Accountable for ensuring that back-office operational support functions are aligned to operational needs.
Responsibilities:
- Administrative support to operations
- Operational reporting accuracy
- Audit preparation and governance requirements
- Ensure reporting is meaningful, accurate, and timely
- Identify gaps in operational visibility
- Correct process weaknesses impacting governance or audits
- Support senior management with reliable operational insight
8. Radio Testing & Quality Control
Accountable for ensuring that testing and quality control processes are followed and effective.
Responsibilities:
- Testing activities are planned and completed as required
- Results are recorded and reviewed
- Quality issues are identified early
- Repeat quality failures are investigated and corrected
- Review quality trends and failure patterns
- Drive corrective actions through the team
- Ensure quality outcomes are predictable and controlled
- Report findings to client
Key Additional Responsibilities / Focus Areas for Operations
Beyond compliance and oversight, an Operations Manager actively drives the following:
A. Anticipation & Proactivity
- Always thinking two steps ahead.
- Seeing potential risks in scheduling, resource allocation, or subcontractor availability before they become problems.
- Asking: “What can go wrong today, this week, or this month?” and having plans in place.
B. Communication & Visibility
- Ensures accurate and timely reporting, not just task completion.
- Communicates risks, delays, and performance trends before management or clients notice.
- Provides meaningful updates, not just “status OK” statements.
C. Decision-Making & Prioritization
- Balances competing operational demands (emergency work vs planned maintenance).
- Makes decisions quickly under pressure, based on incomplete information if needed.
- Understands what is critical vs nice-to-have.
D. Coaching & People Leverage
- Recognizing that success is delivered through others.
- Identifies gaps in coordinators or support staff and trains, guides, or corrects them.
- Holds the team accountable without taking over the work personally.
E. Process Discipline & Continuous Improvement
- Enforces processes consistently but also questions weak processes that create rework or inefficiency.
- Looks for patterns in failures and implements permanent fixes, not just patches.
F. Resource & Cost Awareness
- Knows where money, time, and tools are being used and whether it’s justified.
- Optimizes resources while maintaining service quality and safety.
- Prevents cost leakage through proactive oversight (e.g., fleet misuse, wasted consumables).