Parking Operative Manager
Location: Southern Region (Crawley, Croydon, Twickenham or Kingston, with travel across Kent & the Southwest)
Salary: £28,000 – £31,000 + Monthly Bonus (OTE £3,600 per year)
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week (flexible shifts, including weekends)
Work Location: Field-based with regional travel
Full time / Permanent
Remarkable Jobs are hiring on behalf of our car parking solutions client.
We are seeking a Parking Operative Manager to join their Southern team. This is a hands-on, multi-site leadership role, requiring someone highly organised, people-focused, and confident managing operational performance in a fast-paced environment.
Parking Operative Manager Role:
As a Parking Operative Manager, you will take full responsibility for operational delivery across multiple sites. You will lead Supervisors and Operatives, ensuring full site coverage, strong performance, and a consistent, high-quality service.
This role is pivotal in driving workforce stability, improving performance, and maintaining compliance across your area.
Parking Operative Manager Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage day-to-day operations across multiple parking sites, ensuring full coverage and service delivery
- Oversee Supervisors and Operatives, providing direction, coaching, and real-time support
- Manage staffing levels, proactively addressing absences, vacancies, and rota planning
- Conduct site visits, audits, and new site mobilisations
- Lead performance reviews, probation assessments, and ongoing coaching
- Drive staff retention through structured onboarding, training, and engagement
- Ensure full compliance with Health & Safety, operational standards, and contractual requirements
- Manage incidents, reporting, and escalation processes
- Oversee workforce planning, administration, and performance reporting
- Maintain strong communication with internal teams and senior leadership
- Provide out-of-hours support where required
What They Are Looking For:
Essential:
- Previous experience within parking operations or a similar frontline, multi-site environment
- Proven leadership experience managing teams across multiple locations
- Strong communication skills with a firm but supportive management style
- Excellent organisation and time management skills
- Ability to work under pressure and respond to changing operational demands
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel
- Clear DBS check
Desirable:
- Experience in an Area Manager, Supervisor, or multi-site leadership role
- Strong IT skills and experience using workforce or scheduling systems
- Experience managing incidents or conflict resolution
- Ability to coach and develop team members
Parking Operative Manager Key Attributes:
- Proactive and forward-thinking
- Strong leadership and team-building ability
- Resilient and adaptable in a fast-paced environment
- High level of accountability and ownership
- Professional, reliable, and solution-focused
