NCG
Job title:
Hard Services Manager (M&E)
Company
NCG
Job description
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Hard Services (M&E) Manager with a mechanical bias at Lewisham & Southwark Colleges. This critical role involves overseeing the day-to-day mechanical and electrical maintenance operations across the College estate, ensuring that our facilities remain fit for purpose and compliant with all statutory and legislative requirements. You will play a vital part in supporting the College’s mission to provide outstanding teaching and learning in a safe and welcoming environment for students, staff, and visitors.Key Responsibilities:
- Maintenance Oversight: Manage the mechanical and electrical maintenance operations, including HVAC systems and boilers, collaborating with the M&E maintenance team, helpdesk, and academic staff to ensure a well-maintained environment.
- Water Hygiene Management: Contribute to the Water Safety Group and lead the delivery of an effective water management scheme.
- Building Management Systems: Act as the primary contact for the management and operation of building management systems across the colleges.
- Project Management: Serve as the M&E project manager for minor building fabric capital projects, including defining project briefs, monitoring progress, and ensuring adherence to budgets and timelines.
- Contractor Management: Oversee the appointment and management of contractors, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.
- Financial Management: Manage budgets effectively, preparing reports for the Head of Estates regarding equipment and infrastructure status and associated risks.
- Customer Service: Foster a customer-first ethos within operational activities and maintain effective relationships with internal and external clients.
- Compliance and Best Practice: Ensure compliance with UK legislation and implement best practices in property maintenance and energy management.
Ideal Candidate:The successful candidate will have:
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in building fabric maintenance or a similar role.
- Strong knowledge of HVAC systems, boilers, and their maintenance.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Proven experience in managing budgets and preparing cost estimates.
- Experience with building management systems (BMS) and computerised systems for maintenance management.
- Knowledge of health and safety laws and procedures relevant to the mechanical and electrical disciplines.
In return we offer a competitive salary, excellent training and development opportunities and the chance to work in a rewarding role supporting a diverse range of learners into employment. Our generous benefits package includes 30 days’ annual leave (pro rata), Local Government Workers Pension, and interest-free annual season ticket loan.NCG is a national college group, offering further and higher education across our seven colleges. Our mission is to ‘enable social mobility and economic prosperity through exceptional education’ and we exist to create life-changing opportunities for individuals that strengthen the prosperity of their local communities.Through ambitious teaching, innovative courses and outstanding learning environments, we aim to inspire excellence, spark curiosity and make a real impact on our learners and communities, with a vision to become the UK’s leading college group, recognised for our local impact, national reach and influence.Together, our colleges and partners are creating the workforce of the future by enabling all people, regardless of their background, to develop the skills that our local communities need to be successful and sustained.We’re made up of seven colleges and a central professional services team which supports our entire college network. Whatever your role, you’ll be an important part of helping us to achieve our goals, realise our vision and most importantly, support learners across our colleges to succeed.We are committed to creating inclusive communities of excellent learning and teaching which benefit from sharing best practice developed across the seven learning organisations which are NCG.Our people are at the heart of NCG and by joining our organisation, you will be valued, empowered and will benefit from being part of a national network of colleagues who you will be able to work and collaborate with, learn from and share your knowledge.NCG is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.At NCG, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things.Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values.1. Being both inclusive and diverse2. Trusting and respecting our communities3. Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively4. Inspiring excellence and curiosity.NCG offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers’ pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more.NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve.To view Job Description, Person Specification and NCG Values Pack please click the document attachment at the bottom of this advert. No agency applications will be accepted.NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.Telephone:Email:
Expected salary
£45209 per year
Location
Brockley, South East London
Job date
Sat, 12 Oct 2024 07:29:11 GMT
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