Deputy Building and Facilities Manager

A Deputy Building and Facilities Manager is required to join the hard-working Facilities Team at the Nuffield Department of Medicine. Primarily based within the Target Discovery Institute at the NDM Research Building, you will provide highly skilled support to a large variety of teams, to ensure that first class research support is maintained within the NDM Research Building.

The responsibilities for this role will include supporting the Building Manager in the smooth running and day to day operations including all hard and soft facilities management services, as well as scheduling and managing planned maintenance works to cause minimum possible disruption to ongoing research activity. You will manage and direct the running and development of services provided to users, e.g. goods in / glass wash / stores, to ensure these are effective, sufficient and in line with requirements. Additionally, you will be responsible for monitoring and maintaining the access control entry system, the main security control panels and CCTV to ensure they are adequate and maintained, ensuring the building is secure at all times.

It is essential that you are educated to at least GCSE standard or equivalent, and have knowledge of current Health & Safety requirements within a practical research environment. You will be an excellent communicator, expected to have confidence to work alone but to demonstrate initiative to seek guidance from or to report back to your line manager. Experience of practical problem solving and troubleshooting combined with a willingness to contribute ideas in developing support provided by the team is essential for this position. A NEBOSH certificate, or a current First Aid qualification would be highly desirable.

Applications for this vacancy are to be made online and you will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application. Your supporting statement must explain how you meet each of the selection criteria for the post using examples of your skills and experience.

This position is offered full time on a permanent basis and is funded by the Department.

Only applications received before 12 midday on 2 April 2024 will be considered. Please quote 170536 on all correspondence.

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