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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is one of the government’s largest public service departments with a sizeable annual budget, serving over 20 million citizens.
The estate spans 1.4 million square metres across 800+ sites and supports around 78,000 colleagues.
Our vision includes DWP colleagues, supply chain, partners and, most fundamentally, the customers the Department exists to serve. They are the reason for our existence.
We are responsible for the day-to-day operation of our vast Estate by managing a private sector supply chain that delivers essential services such as Security Guarding, Maintenance, Property and Leasehold Management, Construction, Cleaning and Facilities Management.
DWP Estates is not just about maintaining buildings - it’s about transformation. Our strategic goals include:
* Transitioning to a smaller, more affordable, and adaptable estate to meet future needs
* Investing in infrastructure through planned replacement works
* Embedding sustainability in line with Government Greening Commitments (GGCs)
* Delivering cost-effective services while maintaining high standards
* Creating a professional, best-in-class working culture across the Government Property profession
Our Estates strategy ambitions have been refreshed to take us through to 2030:
* OPTIMISE: Continue to transition to a more affordable and adaptable DWP estate that creates productive environments
* INVEST: Investment in an improved environment that better meets the needs of customers and colleagues and minimises service disruption
* SUPPORT the drive for sustainability throughout DWP
* DELIVER: Expertly deliver improving, cost-effective services for DWP
* THRIVE: Continue to develop a working culture for DWP Estates that is best in class across government
There is no better time to join the award winning DWP Estates team.
The Space Planning team works from project inception through to post occupancy evaluations to ensure that DWP’s property portfolio is aspirational in its approach to design, inclusivity, and sustainability.
This role will work with the Space Planning Team Lead alongside a team of space planners that will enable the DWP to use space more efficiently and effectively, as well as raising the standards of the DWP workplace. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to play a vital role within an influential team within DWP.
Space modelling tools, CAD, and the use of estate wide space management software (as part of a larger CAFM system) will be used to provide important strategic and tactical insight on the efficient management of space.
Government Property Profession Career Framework (Link)
This role sits within the following:
* Job Family – Technical Specialisms & Assurance
* Core Role - Design
* Level - Practitioner
Key accountabilities
Strategy and Policy
* Ensure available drawings are an accurate representation of each building. Use DWP space modelling tools and liaise with the wider Workplace Design team and stakeholders to prepare layout plans in CAD software.
* Ensure layout information is accurately captured on the Computer Aided Facility Management (CAFM) system.
* Classify space, within the CAFM system, according to pertinent standards (such as the International Property Measurement Standards) in order to support effective space management.
* Prepare reports on current space utilisation across different elements of the estate and conduct space feasibility studies while working to improve the quality of estates space planning data by tracking occupancy levels.
* Drafting floor plans to include furniture, fixtures and equipment using computer aided design software.
* Conduct site surveys across various regions to assess the suitability of buildings for potential acquisitions and alterations to existing sites.
* Providing timely direction and technical advice to external designers and supply chain partners to ensure the developing proposals meet quality standards and the operational requirements of the DWP.
* Reviewing and commenting on floor plans and test fits at key project stages and approving compliance with, or justifiable derogations, from the space standards for all Real Estate projects.
* Carrying out post-occupancy evaluation and stakeholder engagement sessions, converting feedback into updates to the Design Standards documentation to capture problems, trends, or changes to space requirements.
* Management of supply chain partners, including scoping of services, working with suppliers to get a quality outcome, checking invoices, and training.
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