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Maintenance Operations Manager

University of Nottingham · Nottingham, East Midlands

Type
Contract
Posted
9 days ago

Overview

Your experience running a shift or custody suite directly translates to managing maintenance teams and operational resources.

About this role

Area

Estates Maintenance Services

Interview Date

To be confirmed

The Estates and Facilities Department at the University of Nottingham provides strategic and operational services support to the University infrastructure, buildings, and landholdings. We are a large and diverse department employing approximately 1300 people and provide a wide range of services across our U.K sites.

We are looking for an experienced Maintenance Operations Manager to manage the day to day planned and reactive maintenance of key maintenance services across our University Sites.

Working closely with the Head of Maintenance you will lead and manage the maintenance team allocating resources effectively to ensure works are completed in line with service level agreements and within the allocated budget. You will provide reports to Senior Estates Managers identifying areas for efficiencies and improvements and will develop the maintenance team promoting a ‘can-do’ attitude and positive culture within the section. You will also liaise with and provide specialist advice to customers and internal and external stakeholders building effective working relationships, understanding customer requirements, and ensuring any feedback received is monitored and actioned as required.

Candidates should have a Trade based qualification such as City and guilds Level 3 or equivalent in a relevant subject and have continued post qualification training with experience in a similar role or have a proven track record of relevant work experience in a similar role demonstrating practical and theoretical knowledge of a specialised field of work. You should also have experience in leading, motivating and supervising a team of multi-skilled trades staff undertaking maintenance activities in a large multi-site organisation. Due to the frequency with which the role holder will travel between university sites a valid driving licence is essential for the post.

Further information on the duties for the post and the experience and qualifications required can be found on the attached job role profile.

The post is offered on a permanent contract. Hours of work are full time (36.25 hours per week) 5 days out of 7 to be arranged mainly Monday to Friday with flexibility to work occasional weekends if required. Job share arrangements may be considered.

The University of Nottingham is committed to providing competitive employment packages whilst supporting the well-being of our staff to help them reach their full potential. We strive to provide a range of benefits and rewards, including leading fitness and health facilities, staff discounts and travel schemes. We also offer an excellent holiday allowance of 30 days per year, plus additional university closure days and bank holidays.

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Further details

  • Job Description/Role Profile

Our university is a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive community. We welcome those of different cultures, ethnicities and beliefs – indeed this very diversity is vital to our success, it is fundamental to our values and enriches life on campus. Visit our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion website.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) employer . Increasing the diversity of our community is extremely important to us and we are committed to the aims of Disability Confident Scheme.

We are the first university to have achieved Athena Swan Gold Award .

To help you succeed, we published Candidate Guidance to provide support on the application and interview process.

Discover our benefits, visit Your Benefits website.

We welcome applications from UK, Europe and worldwide and aim to make your move to the UK as smooth as possible. Visit the Moving to Nottingham page for details.

Your application will be considered on an equal basis, subject to the relevant permission to work in the UK as set out by UK Visas & Immigration .

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