Job Description
6. To ensure that routine and reactive maintenance activities are undertaken in the most appropriate and efficient manner to minimise disruption to University activities while ensuring optimum value for money is achieved. 7. Ensure regular cleaning and grounds maintenance is undertaken to provide quality spaces for Students and Staff. 8. To ensure accurate records of maintenance and other activities are kept as required by legislation, University requirements and best practice. 9. To liaise with all statutory bodies and utilities in ensuring the optimum function of the University estate. 10. To develop the University’s frameworks and preferred supplier lists through procurement of services and supplies in a manner that meets all regulations including OJEU requirements and ensures compliance with financial regulations when awarding work. 11. To develop projects to reduce the University’s energy consumption whilst ensuring the comfort of both students and academics alike. 12. To analyse service statistics, surveys and feedback (from the University and sector wide) to recognise and identify trends to make improvements to service standards. 13. To conduct investigations into complex complaints and issues, for example problems that have arisen in the construction of a building.
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Deputy Director - Estates Director of Campus Operations Head of Facilities, Compliance Manager, Energy Manager, and Maintenance Manager Estates and Campus Services RU10 Up to £63,743
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Main purpose of the job: Deputy Director Estates is responsible for ensuring that the University estate and its buildings are managed effectively to enable the University to function efficiently, safely and to the satisfaction of students and staff. Supported by a skilled team, the post holder will lead on ensuring long term planned and reactive maintenance and upkeep of all buildings, plant, equipment, services and associated systems within the University estate, ensuring high standards are maintained, work undertaken is legally compliant and within budget. The post holder will have responsibility for the departmental budget. The post holder will represent these services of the Department of Estates and Campus Services to the staff and students of the University and will do so through effective networking and communication to ensure that the services meets staff and student expectations. The post holder will have an important role to fulfil in case of emergencies affecting buildings and services. Main duties and responsibilities: 1. To lead, develop and motivate a diverse team, setting overall goals, ensuring that teams interact and work together effectively and receive the training required to enable them to work efficiently and safely. 2. Input in to an Estates Strategy for the University that supports the University’s Strategic Plan and responds to the Estate condition. 3. To ensure the effective delivery of the maintenance of the University’s buildings (both new and heritage) and the maintenance of mechanical and electrical services with varied control systems ranging from heritage, to new and highly technical. 4. To ensure that the facilities of the University including grounds and cleaning are delivered to a high standard and value. 5. To develop a planned maintenance programme of works on a 5 year rolling basis that is based on the University buildings condition surveys as appropriate and to prepare budget bids to support these plans.
14. Provide performance related reports to funding and other bodies.
15. To keep up to date with changing regulations.
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