Key duties and responsibilities
Day-to-day Maintenance
• Lead the planning and delivery of reactive, preventative and planned maintenance across the College’s built portfolio, using service, value for money, customer feedback and other metrics to enhance the quality of delivery over time. • Lead the buildings and maintenance department and line manage your team, creating a great environment for your team to work. Recruit talented and enthusiastic people, encouraging diversity, driving performance through setting strong objectives, arranging staff training, monitoring and supporting development and conducting appraisals.
• Balance required buildings and maintenance work between in house maintenance staff and external contractors to maximise efficiency, whilst controlling costs.
• Ensure the team work in a safe, secure and compliant environment, whilst fulfilling health and safety obligations including safety of any visitors or contractors (see details in Health and Safety section).
• Maintain heritage buildings to a high standard, being mindful of the impact of works from a historic and conservation perspective. Liaise with local heritage officers as required.
• Ensure strong, effective working relationships are maintained with all College departments, keeping them informed of all matters which may affect them, including agreement of timetables for the delivery of works and circulation of details in a timely fashion where works may interrupt normal operations. • Delegate day to day running of the buildings and Maintenance department through your deputy, team leaders and officer manager; whilst monitoring volume of in-house call-outs through our Maintenance Request System (MRS)
• Ensure that internal and external resourcing is aligned to responding to issues as they arise, including out of office hours, given that emergencies can occur at any time.
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