GDST - Estates Manager

Experience Essentials: • Experience of managing the development, design and delivery • of refurbishment, maintenance and adaptation projects. • Experience of managing projects from inception to completion in a lead project manager role. • Experience of working on projects across a broad range of property types. • Background in Building Surveying, or Estate Management • Experience of performing the intelligent client role for internal customers. • Experience of managing external consultants and contractors to deliver refurbishment, maintenance and adaptation projects to time, cost and quality. • Experience of using structured project management techniques for planning and controlling projects and programmes. • Experience of receiving outline tasks, developing briefs and solutions, and managing these through to completion. • Experience of financial management across a wide range of budgets, with proven analytical skills and the ability to collate financial and other information from a range of sources, analyse it, draw conclusions, and propose solutions. • Experience of construction contracts, contract management and procurement practices relating to project and service delivery. • Experience of neighbourly matters such as Party walls, boundary walls and ownership.

• Experience of building and maintaining effective working relationships, with the ability to communicate clearly, confidently and persuasively with people at all levels both orally and in writing, including the ability to communicate complex technical issues to non-technical audiences • A broad knowledge of building related mechanical and electrical systems and associated servicing and compliance. Desirable: • Experience of estate condition surveys. • Experience of working in the education sector. • Understanding of M&E, environmental, sustainability and energy conservation issues. • Experience of working on Listed Buildings and within Conservation Areas. Skills and Abilities Essentials: • Excellent written and oral communication skills • Ability to provide a strategic perspective with attention to detail • Ability to effectively manage time and meet deadlines whilst under pressure • Generic ICT literacy (e.g. Word; e mail, MS Project, use of databases) • Strong verbal and numerical reasoning ability • Strong analytical and research skills, able to produce technical content and organise material. • Using Asset databases Desirable: • Ability to effectively use Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, particularly for production of reports. Knowledge Essentials: • Awareness of appropriate and relevant construction related legislation, methods and processes • Building Defect analysis • Health and Safety legislation and compliance.

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