GDST - Head of Infrastructure and Sustainability

• To lead and develop technical design, specification of standards and design briefs in relation to building services and infrastructure, including new build, refurbishment, replacement, commissioning and handover across GDST. • Work with Capital Projects and Estate Management teams to ensure best practice and appropriate design operations and maintenance solutions for new projects and alignment with GDST wide strategic Masterplan. Key Responsibilities • Senior management responsibility to prepare a sustainability strategy, specifications, design briefs, service standards, policies and procedures in collaboration across the GDST and it’s Schools. • Carry out a ‘client monitoring’ role on external consultant M+E proposals, challenge design philosophy, complexity, operation and maintenance requirements etc. • Senior management responsibility for infrastructure and engineering input into Long Term Maintenance Programme (LTM), Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) including complex priorities/budget challenges and delivery of agreed projects ensuring developing specifications, cost estimates and timescales, as well as developing future service contracts and improved service proposals to support the GDST in liaison with Procurement and the schools. • Senior management responsibility for infrastructure and engineering input to capital projects and programmes of work, including the interface with a ‘Soft Landings’ approach. • Develop policies procedures and guidance in all areas of Sustainability and Engineering in collaboration with all key stakeholders across the GDST. • Support the Schools Sustainability related monitoring and audit records, including all appropriate returns adopted by the Schools. E.g. CRC and/or similar. • In conjunction with all Estates team members, actively promote Sustainability to the schools and other stakeholders. This could include holding educational workshops with schools and students. • Keep up to date with sustainability and in particular environmental issues and UK legislation and provide advice to the Estates team and to the Schools in terms of its legislative duties. • Managing and leading proposals for installations and improvements to Mechanical and electrical installations across the Estate.

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