Assistant Branch Manager

BOC Limited, a Linde company

Assistant Branch Manager

Crawley, United Kingdom | req23415

What you will enjoy doing

Asour Assistant Branch Manager, you’ll play a vital leadership rolein ensuring the smooth, safe, and efficient operation of our site. Acting as akey support to the Branch Manager—and stepping in during their absence—you’llhelp drive operational excellence and team performance. Here’s how you’ll makean impact:

• Lead Daily Operations, oversee day-to-day site activities, including cylinder filling and handling, ensuring resources are in place to meet customer demand and operational targets.
• Act as Site Landlord, take responsibility for site infrastructure and fixed assets, ensuring maintenance, engineering standards, and compliance are upheld.
• Coordinate Production & Maintenance, manage production and maintenance activities within budget and safety frameworks, ensuring alignment with legislative and management system requirements.
• Support and Coach Teams, provide leadership and development support to Production Shift Managers, Supervisors, Asset Control, and Maintenance teams, helping them achieve their goals and grow professionally.
• Ensure Site Security & Compliance, oversee asset control, site security, visitor inductions, and emergency response processes, maintaining a safe and secure working environment.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally, work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure seamless operations and strong communication across the business.

What makes you great

• Technical Qualifications & Safety Commitment, you hold (or are committed to completing) an HNC/HND and a NEBOSH or IOSH (health and safety certifications), demonstrating your dedication to technical excellence and workplace safety.
• Leadership in Industrial Environments, a proven ability to motivate, develop, and engage personnel to meet operational goals and you may have experience managing teams (industrial setting desirable).
• Stakeholder management, you have managed relationships within a unionised environment.
• Operational Agility & Customer Focus, you respond effectively to changing business demands, maintaining high efficiency and customer satisfaction.
• Standards Awareness, experience with cylinder filling/handling and ISO9001:2008 – ISO14001 systems is desirable.
• Integrity & Inclusive Leadership, you lead by example, role-modelling behaviours that promote a safe, respectful, and inclusive workplace culture.

Why you will love working with us

We are the largest provider of industrial, medical and special gases in the UK and Ireland. From cutting harmful emissions, to providing life-saving oxygen and keeping food fresh, our gases play an essential role in everyday life. Our values – Safety, Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion and Community are at the heart of everything we do. They help us create an environment that puts safety first, where people do things the right way, new ideas are welcomed and everyone can be themselves.

At BOC, we take pride in our people and work hard to provide an enriching, enjoyable place to work. We have a clear vision: to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay and excel. We are always raising the bar, and because we are part of Linde, a global company, our people have limitless opportunities to grow and make a difference, all over the world.

What we offer you!

At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you’re looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package with pension and life assurance as standard. In addition, we offer 25 days paid leave and a range of other flexible leave benefits, so that you have time to do the things you enjoy. Our recognition & reward platform celebrates great work and special moments, as well as providing a hub for health and well-being benefits, including a wide selection of savings and offers at well-known retailers.

Grow to be your best and drive your career with the training and development opportunities we offer.

Have we inspired you? Lets talk about it

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome, valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are more than happy to work with you to provide reasonable adjustments to enable you to present your best self.

Not sure if you fulfil the full criteria for this role? Regardless, we'd still like to hear from you! We look forward to receiving your application via our online careers site, hearing your story and getting to know you better!

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BOC Limited, a Linde company
David Twigg

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