Regional Facilities Manager

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They are the sixth-largest provider of specialist educational services in the country, supporting over 1200 children and young people, and employing over 1500 staff. They have over 18 schools across the UK.

For this job you must be able to commute to School sites around Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Bristol, Minehead, Cranborne.

Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Group Estates Director your role will be to oversee and manage Regional Facilities and Estates teams in the South West and take responsibility for the development, implementation, refinement, delivery and monitoring of the facilities and estates services together with associated documentation and systems.

You’ll act as a technical advisor for facilities and estates matters in the region and support the site based teams and contractors to ensure safe premises that are fit for children and young adults, staff and visitors.

Key to your role will be your ability to ascertain service requirements and maintain service delivery at the required standard throughout the region.

Whilst the maintenance and development of existing sites remains the core responsibility for your role; you will also play a key position in the construction/development/opening of new services opening in the region in conjunction with the Executive Principal and wider project teams

You’ll also be working with both Estates Director and Group Health and Safety Manager to develop systems, templates, processes and other needed quality functions in support of the establishing and monitoring the delivery of the department’s function.

Your Experience

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:

• Experience of delivering reactive, planned and project services
• Experience in line management
• Good communication skills, negotiation skills, leadership
• Proven ability to work under pressure and respond to deadlines
• Ability to make sound judgements and prioritise multiple demands
• Excellent organisational skills
• Relevant qualifications in Building Studies/ similar
• NEBOSHH
• Ability travel (inc. overnight stays), drivers licence and access to a car
• *our South West sites currently include sites around Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Bristol, Minehead, Cranborne.

Benefits:

• Life assurance
• Competitive pension scheme
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Refer a friend for £1,000 - We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Bike to work scheme
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

School Staffing Solutions Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.