Overview
Estates Manager
£53,800 - £60,500 per annum
Gloucestershire
Full Time and On-site
The Estates Manager will play a crucial role in supporting the Associate Director of Estates to ensure that the healthcare properties are safe and well-maintained. This involves providing a cost-effective, efficient, and safe maintenance service through the combined efforts of direct labour and contractors, overseeing both external and internal environmental management, and maintaining a safe and secure environment for patients, staff and visitors. Therefore, you will be required to:
* To lead on the building and engineering safety, inspection and maintenance.
* To operationally manage all estates activities across: Healthcare Engineering, Decontamination, Medical gases, Ventilation, Water, Fire, Electrical, Environment, Pressure Systems
* To ensure Authorised person roles are covered (electricity, heating/ventilation, lifts, medical gases, decontamination, confined spaces, working at heights, gas systems and pressure systems), taking lead responsibility in person where appropriate.
* Linking with the Associate Director of Estates and senior colleagues to ensure the effective management of Service Level Agreements/Contracts across a variety of estates related disciplines including: Direct contracts with specialist advisors, contractors and consultants, Estates maintenance Service Level Agreement/contract with the Hospital Trust, Implementation and operational management of safe systems of work, Monitoring, supervising and auditing specialist contractors, Construction, Design and Management Regulation compliance
Qualifications and skills
* To have an industry qualification in engineering, technology, building, surveying, or architecture plus either an appropriate mechanical or electrical formal qualification in estates disciplines; industry qualification in management safety
* Registered Professional in relevant FM Institution.
* To have excellent communication, negotiation and training skills; and the ability to motivate and support staff
* To understand budget management and effectively manage the expenditure so as to remain within the budget allocated
* To have demonstrable knowledge of healthcare processes and interdepartmental relationships
* To be self-motivated and able to organise, prioritise workload and delegate appropriately with the ability to make and justify rational decisions quickly.
* To have sound knowledge of environmental management, health & safety requirements/legislation to include COSHH, risk management, Legionella etc.
* To have extensive experience of engineering services to buildings, and of building construction, with specific geographical knowledge of the services and equipment throughout the properties to be maintained
* To have detailed knowledge and experience in engineering services to buildings, building construction and maintenance management strategies and techniques
* To have a detailed knowledge of Building Management Systems and AutoCAD; advanced skills in using departmental computer software systems comprising of FMIS, Safecode, Smartstream, ELVIS including the full Microsoft Office package of, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Bactraq and Project
Further information
For further information, please contact John Lavictoire
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