Maintenance Services Manager required to join the Estates team of a leading university in the Midlands. Excellent benefits on offer including 44days holiday, 21% pension and hybrid flexible working.

Client Details

Excellent opportunity for a Maintenance Services Manager to join the Estates & Facilities team of a leading university. You will oversee a team of multi skill maintenance staff to deliver planned preventative & reactive maintenance across their vast continuously expanding estate.

Description

Reporting to the Director of Maintenance, Engineering and Sustainability, the Maintenance Services Manager will provide lead and be directly responsible for overseeing and managing c55 staff responsible for the service delivery of all urgent, reactive and compliance maintenance necessary for the upkeep of the Estate. To take responsibility for expenditure of c£5m on the maintenance budgets.

Roles & Responsibilities

• To provide Leadership and Management to a team of circa 60 multi-disciplinary maintenance staff and compliance-based tasks
• manage the recruitment, selection and induction of new staff
• set high standards of performance and behaviour and ensure the engagement of staff in the delivery of excellent service to all stakeholders; .
• To work closely with the Director and the Department's Senior Leadership Team to develop an understanding of their key priorities, translating these into effective operational implementation plans
• To take responsibility for day to day expenditure of the c£5m maintenance budgets
• To work in co-operation with the Head of Operations on the implementation and embedding of the CAFM system
• To co-ordinate and engage with work processes relating to Reactive Maintenance, Planned and Preventative Maintenance and ongoing Compliance works.
• To work in conjunction with the Engineering Team to co-ordinate and allocate tasks relating to minor works requests
• To act as a champion for Health and Safety policy, ensuring that this culture of commitment is reflected and embedded within the Team; to take responsibility for H&S audits throughout the Maintenance area

Profile

• Ideally a degree in an Engineering/ Building Services / Facilities related subject
• Excellent knowledge of Mechanical & Electrical Building Services (M&E)
• Significant experience delivering frontline Maintenance Services across a large Estate.
• Experience managing a team of multi skilled maintenance staff
• Excellent communication skills and able to liaise with a variety of key stakeholders
• Significant knowledge of Health, Safety & Environmental legislation
• NEBOSH certificate
• Competent using IT systems / CAFM systems

Job Offer

• Up to £56,000
• 44 days annual leave
• Pension contribution (21%)
• Competitive pension schemes
• BUPA Cash Plan
• Annual salary incremental increases
• Hybrid / Flexible working