Estates Maintenance Manager

Your new company
Our client are a large, well-known London university with multiple campuses including a large healthcare campus in South London. They are hiring a Maintenance Manager to ensure services are delivered for their health and medical campus in South London.
Your new role
As Maintenance Manager, you will play a key role to support the Estates and Facilities Department in providing a safe, friendly, and welcoming campus by ensuring the appropriate delivery of the reactive and planned maintenance program, and assisting with the estates strategy to improve the campus infrastructure across the campus and halls of residence buildings. Key responsibilities include:

• Management of the hard FM service provider
• Auditing of helpdesk, jobs logged, overdue and contractor completion
• Providing technical support to Estates Department
• Project management for repair, maintenance and refurbishment projects
• Monitoring of the University's Statutory Compliance requirements
• Contribute to the Estates Strategy and Master Plan

What you'll need to succeed
To succeed in this role you will require relevant experience operating in a technical/maintenance management capacity for a public sector estate, ideally within a university or healthcare environment. You will also require:

• Relevant trade background and qualifications (IE Electrical, Mechanical Engineering)
• Experience in managing hard FM service contracts
• Team management experience
• Strong building services knowledge, including reactive and planned maintenance programmes
• Project management experience for refurbishment works
• Health, safety and statutory compliance awareness and knowledge

What you'll get in return
When successful in securing this role, you will receive a contract (may be 12-24 month FTC or permanent) with a large, successful university in South London. You will also receive:

• 51,000 - 57,000 salary (range is 51,000 - 60,900 for the grading, and starting salary is at the lower to middle end)
• Salary progression through the banding
• 30 days annual leave + bank holidays + 4 days additional university closure (typically between Christmas & New Year)
• Competitive public sector pension schemes (LPFA, USS, NHSPS etc.)
• Various other company benefits - season ticket loan, cycle to work etc.

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