Job Description
Job Title: Mechanical and Electrical Asset Manager Salary: B1H1 Contract Type/Duration: Permanent
• Use asset data and CAFM systems to track condition, performance and compliance, and take necessary decisions to ensure they are properly maintained. • Forecast future maintenance and replacement needs, helping to inform the team’s financial forecasts. • Work with teams and other departments to embed good asset practices across the organisation. • The post holder will be responsible for supporting on the collation of pre-construction information at the start of a projects and the transition of construction projects into maintenance operations by ensuring both the physical and digital assets are complete, functional and correctly loaded onto the asset management system. • Adopt a systems thinking approach to effectively map out the buildings and working processes of the parliamentary estate. • Fulfill PMST’s obligations in accordance with the Parliamentary Soft Landings process. Ensure the pre-construction information is compiled and completed works meet the key performance objectives established at project inception. • Transition construction projects into “business as usual” maintenance operation. This will include participating in design, reviewing design information, recording equipment performance in accordance with the parliamentary soft landings process, site inspections, witness testing, familiarisation training and reviewing as-built information including building models. • Ensure that all necessary project O&M’s are complete as part of the handover process and that the necessary asset information is updated in the asset management system. • Handover the construction works by administering familiarisation training for technical colleagues, liaise with maintenance
PMST work in collaboration with other departments such as Security, Digital, Parliamentary Commercial Directorate, Strategic Estates, Parliamentary Safety Team and Customer Experience & Service Delivery. PMST consists of over 100 in house staff working alongside a team of Third-Party contractors, who support PMST in the delivery of maintenance hard services and project delivery. We deliver over 70,000 planned and 25,000 reactive tasks a year, managing a budget over £30m per annum. The Role As Mechanical and Electrical Asset Manager, you will be responsible for the delivery of end-to-end asset management of plant and equipment within PMST. This is a new role focused on embedding the organisation’s asset management strategy into the operational maintenance team, specifically across mechanical and electrical systems.
You’ll work closely with operational teams to shape processes, improve data and planning, and ensure our assets are maintained efficiently and sustainably (minimising utilities consumption and maximising operating life) using knowledge from industry best practice. Key stakeholder relationships (to include, but not limited to): • Head of Mechanical Engineering and Head of Electrical Engineering. • Head of Operational Maintenance. • Director of PMST and senior leadership team. • Strategic Estates – specifically Property and Asset Strategy Team. • Other operational teams incl. Logistics, Security, Digital, Broadcasting, Customer experience catering etc. • Parliamentary safety team. • External contractors and consultants. • House of Lords facilities.
The Team The Parliamentary Maintenance Services Team (PMST) are accountable for the maintenance of the UK Parliamentary Estate, consisting of buildings that range from the historic Palace of Westminster to the modern Portcullis House, located within a UNESCO World Heritage site, spanning four conservation areas. The Parliamentary Maintenance Service Team (PMST) are responsible for maintaining Commons and Lords buildings across the Estate, including engineering systems, maintenance capital projects delivery, furnishings and ceremonial works. The team consists of multiple functional areas: project delivery, maintenance operations, compliance and commercial.
The role will have two focus areas: • Transitioning construction projects into
“business as usual” maintenance operation. This is referred to as the Parliamentary Soft Landings Process. • Operational Asset Management, reviewing asset performance to inform maintenance planning, scheduling and replacement.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead on development and full implementation of Parliament’s asset management strategy into the operational maintenance team, specifically across mechanical and electrical systems. • As a subject matter expert, ensure all mechanical and electrical systems across the Estate, such as heating, ventilation, electrical systems, lifts and pumps, are properly maintained, performing efficiently and have a clear lifecycle plan. • Provide expert advice and recommendations on how to manage these assets effectively over time to the Head of Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering accordingly. • Put in place processes to monitor, maintain and plan for replacement or upgrade of existing Parliamentary M&E assets, using existing Asset Registers.
contract managers and undertake other activities as required to ensure a smooth transition.
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