Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Play a key role in delivering work projects which aid the climate emergency and carbon reduction within our estate.
Our Estates and Building Service are a professional, multi-disciplinary service, offering a varied workload and an array of opportunities to develop a rewarding career. We have a large and diverse portfolio of property including listed buildings & scheduled monuments, educational buildings, and leisure facilities, to name a few.
Join us to bring innovative solutions to enable the delivery of sustainable high-quality projects across the estate and manage budgets and programmes. Youll be key to achieving our goal of providing well maintained, compliant buildings across the estate.
This is a full-time, permanent post working 37 hours per week from Monday to Friday. On occasion you may be required to work evenings to attend meetings or site visits. Based at City Hall, youll have the flexibility to work from home or on-site. However, youll be required to travel to construction locations in and around Leicestershire.
What Youll Be Doing
Working closely with the Hard FM, Maintenance and Compliance, and Minor Works teams, youll provide specialist advice & support regarding building, mechanical and electrical services across the property portfolio. Identifying opportunities for innovation in relation to sustainability, youll help reduce our carbon footprint and address the climate emergency. Across the property asset list, youll design and implement systems of testing, maintenance, and monitoring for the management of all property related functions including building, mechanical, water management, and electrical services. Youll lead on construction projects that differ in size and complexity for our internal and external clients. Liaising with stakeholders including internal colleagues, clients, contractors as well as regulatory bodies, youll over projects from inception through to completion and handover, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
What Youll Need
Youll have substantial experience of managing projects that are delivered to the highest standards in terms of time, cost, and quality. With excellent people skills, youll be able to present to and engage with a variety of audiences, persuading and motivating others to meet objectives including having the confidence to challenge performance when needed. Youll have the drive and ambition to research modern technologies with your specialist area. Youll be able to monitor outcome and input-based specifications including KPI data validation. Using strong analytical skills, youll be able to review costings, and together with your detailed technical knowledge of Hard FM legislation, deliver best practice.
Ideally, youll hold an MIWFM or equivalent qualification. This includes CIBSE.
It is essential that you hold a full UK driving licence and are able to travel frequently between locations transporting necessary equipment.
What We Can Offer You
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. Youll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. Well also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
Were committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. Thats why weve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. Well do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the our approach to recruitment page.
For a chat about this post, please feel free to contact Bruce Bennett on 0116 4545111.
This is an open advert therefore we will complete the short-listing soon after receiving your application. If short-listed, you'll be called for an assessment and/or interview thereafter.