Head of Asset Maintenance
Job Title:
Head of Asset Maintenance
• providing postal, delivery and security arrangements and advice to the University; and
Department:
Estates and Facilities Estates Operations Assistant Director (Estates Operations) Building Surveyors
Responsible to:
• the delivery of a wide-range of customer-facing services, including: contract management; estates and facilities relationships management; housekeeping and cleaning, business resilience, event management; reception helpdesk; university retail; business support; health and safety; and management information. The Head of Asset Maintenance will be responsible for delivering a strategic-based building maintenance and minor works service to the University. The post-holder will lead and manage the team(s) within their area of responsibility to deliver a highly effective, efficient and customer-focussed service resulting in the continuous improvement in the condition of the University estate. The post-holder will manage, coordinate and lead their function, optimising the use of internal and external resources and exercising overall budgetary control to achieve performance and quality targets.
Responsible for:
Grade:
9
Salary range: Contract type: Working arrangements:
£51,630-£58,089
Permanent
Nominal 35 hours Five days from seven, primarily Monday to Friday
The Department and Role Purpose
The Estates and Facilities Directorate provides a number of essential services to Durham University and is responsible for managing, maintaining and developing the infrastructure and building fabric of the various campuses, including: • maintaining and regularly reviewing a maintenance programme which takes account of short, medium and long term needs of all buildings and University grounds; • implementing the works identified and funded within the various maintenance programmes and operating a system for dealing with day-to day requirements, including the provision of an out-of- hours emergency service; • providing a professional, technical service to the University for the design, construction and procurement of new buildings and adaptation works to existing buildings;
• identifying and recording the use of space and advising on ways of increasing space utilisation;
• property and asset management;
• acquisition and disposal of built environment related assets;
• procuring and managing utilities and services;
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