Operations Manager (Infrastructure)

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	26 Ionawr 2026
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	Competitive
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	25 Chwefror 2026
Lleoliad:	Bolton, BL1 6JT
Cwmni:	inploi
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	75780949

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Grade: I scp 31 £41,771 -scp 35 £46,142 plus Essential Car User Allowance up to £963pa
Contract: Permanent
Essential Requirement: Full Driving Licence, DBS

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

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The Role
As Operations Manager (Infrastructure), you will lead the delivery of reliable, secure and forward-looking ICT services to schools, academies and Multi Academy Trusts. You will provide strategic oversight of infrastructure services, ensuring performance meets agreed standards, customer expectations and value-for-money requirements. The role includes leading technical staff, managing suppliers and complex ICT projects, developing services in response to demand, contributing to ICT strategy, and providing technical consultancy to stakeholders. You will monitor service and financial performance and deputise for the ICT Unit Manager when required.

About You
You will be an experienced ICT professional with strong leadership, organisational and communication skills, able to operate confidently within a complex public-sector and education-focused environment.
You will bring:
Experience of ICT service delivery and infrastructure management
Proven leadership and people-management capability
Strong project and contract management skills
The ability to translate technical solutions into practical, customer-focused services
A focus on quality, value for money and continuous improvement
Experience of working within, or alongside, schools, academies, MATs or other public-sector organisations.

About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.

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Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk

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