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Team Leader Bridge and Lock Operations

North HollandHybrid36 hours/week<3months

Leading a department of over 60 employees who ensure safe and smooth passage for shipping and road traffic 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

  • Responsible for the daily management of the teams, employee development, and creating a safe, professional, and customer-oriented working environment.
  • Stimulates collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement, actively utilizing ideas and signals from the workplace.
  • As a member of the management team, you are an important sparring partner for the department head and maintain contacts with internal and external stakeholders.
  • You know how to translate policy into practice and can operate effectively in a complex and changing environment.
  • Actively manage sustainable employability and oversee absenteeism files.
  • Achieving a reduction in the absenteeism percentage is an important part of the assignment.

What you do

  • Daily management of the teams.
  • Employee development.
  • Creating a safe, professional, and customer-oriented working environment.
  • Maintaining contacts with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Translating policy into practice.
  • Actively managing sustainable employability.
  • Overseeing absenteeism files.

What they ask

  • Minimum of 5 years of demonstrable and recent experience in leading large operational teams and stimulating the development, collaboration, and employability of employees.
  • Demonstrable experience with personnel planning in a continuous roster and experience in resolving capacity bottlenecks.
  • In possession of an HBO diploma (higher professional education).
  • Knowledge of the Working Hours Act and relevant collective labor agreement provisions.
  • Good command of the Dutch language, both written and spoken.

Preferences.

  • Several years of demonstrable experience as a manager within a government organization, water board, municipality, province, or other public implementing organization.
  • Demonstrable experience as a manager in a 24/7 environment.
  • Demonstrable experience in reducing absenteeism within a team of at least 30 employees.

Profile

  • An engaged and results-oriented leader with strong communication skills.
  • Knows how to motivate people and successfully implement developments.
  • Coaching leadership.
  • Decisiveness.
  • Results-orientation.
  • Environmental awareness.
  • Collaboration.
  • Stress resistance.
  • Integrity.
  • Conflict management.
  • Organizational sensitivity.
  • Planning and organizing.

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