Durham University - Head of Asset Maintenance

The Role

Core responsibilities:

• Contribute to wider quality and regulatory audit process for stakeholder systems and services.

• Provide professional and expert leadership for the Building Surveying teams, at a significant operational level and contribute to strategic planning to meet organisational objectives. • Provide feedback on team and individual performance and identify development needs, conducting regular staff ADR and performance reviews. • Help to shape the skills and expertise of team members and design work structures to meet operational and strategic goals. • Handle the vast majority of welfare issues within a team, referring more complex welfare issues to appropriate support services/senior management. • Provide expert guidance, advice and problem- solving skills, on building surveying and ground maintenance matters, to stakeholders. • Identify and develop innovative approaches and make recommendations for how these can be implemented within the service area. • Significant input into the planning and development of future skills and expertise within service areas to meet organisational goals. • Responsible for the management and leadership of people across service areas, setting operational and strategic objectives for discrete areas. • Implement change management projects across service areas in collaboration with peers and specialists to ensure a smooth and effective transition. • Recruit, induct, train and develop new team members.

• Influence and contribute to operational and strategic scoping and resource planning across a range of activities, developing and presenting complex business plans and strategy documents, where required such as the Estates Masterplan. • Set operational objectives for the scoping initiation, planning and implementation of significant projects in service areas. • Devolve key responsibilities to experienced team members to ensure succession and encourage skills development. • Provide leadership and influence the governance of service activities, processes and transactions to meet regulatory and professional service and policy standards. • Build and lead an influential network of contacts both internally and externally to influence the development of service provision. • Provide leadership within project teams to shape and determine specifications and key deliverables, problem solve and guide implementation. • Lead internal and external business meetings, working groups and committees at operational and strategic service level to influence governance, organisational policy and standards for the service.

• Budget responsibility for allocating and managing expenditure of consumable and capital items.

• Lead the creation, review, design, implementation and monitoring of policy and service level standards.

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