Building Services Manager (Project)

Job Description

Job Title : Building Services Manager (Project)
Job Category : Interims
Location : Royal Borough of Kingston
Hours Per Week : 35.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £280.29 per day

Brief for an Interim Building Services Manager, Facilities Management
24 November 2022

Duration: 3 months initially with potential to go permanent. Immediate start.
IR35: In scope of IR35
Pay Rate: To £400 per day

Context
Facilities Management and the wider Property service is undergoing transformation at Royal Borough of Kingston, and we are looking to build an FM team that will provide excellence in delivery following services being recommissioned in October 2022.

It’s an exciting and challenging time and we are looking for skilled and dedicated FM professionals to join the team. You will need to have extensive, proven experience of working client-side within a local government or similar environment; possess a wealth of building services management experience; work with drive and initiative; be a positive and pragmatic thinker, have very good influencing and negotiating skills; and enjoy collaborative team working, sharing the successes this brings.

Roles will require Monday to Friday working, ability to attend the offices in Kingston and around the borough as required to thoroughly oversee and manage services, as well as some opportunities for remote working. We need to build and maintain a consistent service so want people that can devote time for at least three months – with the possibility of a permanent role thereafter.

Key deliverables
The attached role profile sets out the criteria for the role. The specific key deliverables include:
Build effective relationships with the council’s Building Services provider (BSP), Property colleagues and the wider council.
Monitor planned and reactive works progress against performance targets on a frequent and regular basis.
Audit and review building services delivery, management and costs (planned, remedial and reactive maintenance – engineering services and fabric, minor works) to instigate improvement programmes and backlog works programmes with the BSP.
Line manage the Minor Works Project / Compliance Lead, to ensure highest levels of building works and statutory compliance are met and maintained.
With the BSP, manage the future works programme.
Seek opportunities to value-engineer solutions and be vigilant to the council’s strategic asset management plan when considering works programmes.
Work with senior FM management and the council’s consultants to achieve effective transition of the current building services arrangements.
This role will report into the Head of Facilities Management, with a dotted line to the Head of FM Operations, who is the lead for the BSP contract.
Educated to degree level and a member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers or equivalent is preferred. Solid, demonstrable industry experience is essential.