Facilities Manager

As a Facilities Manager you will play a key role in shaping the direction of our college. You will be responsible for your area and implement innovative changes to improve the facilities and environment across the college. This is an excellent opportunity to have real impact in a college, which is moving at pace with strong support from its Senior Leadership team.

In this role, you will:

• Facilitate and encourage a right first time culture.

• Manage, maintain and improve the Oldham College Facilities, including the landscaping in order to make the College "the best place to learn and work".

• Build a suitable range of internal staff and external suppliers in order to ensure an excellent quality service while obtaining best value.

• Develop and deliver project management plans, including new builds, refurbishments, retrofits etc to deadlines.

• Consider, and build in, sustainability and decarbonisation into all activities / projects.

Requirements:

The role will require you to embed and work to the college’s values; working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike. You are required to have a relevant Trade Qualification, IWFM Membership, Health and Safety Qualification , Project Management Qualification and Experience using Autocad or similar.

When you join our college, not only will you benefit from an annual reviewed salary but have access to numerous benefits and facilities: 

• Generous Pension Scheme  
• Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform
• Very generous holiday entitlement
• Employee Assistance Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision
• Staff recognition awards
• Car Scheme
• Subsidised car parking
• On-site Day Nursery
• On-site hair and beauty salon with discounts

We are a local college with a reputation for dynamism and success and provide high level technical and vocational education and training.      

We embrace and encourage all those who are driven to better themselves, achieve their goals and reach new heights. Excellent resources combined with exceptional tutors and student support means that whatever your ambition, we can help you to achieve it.  

The college is regarded as a “Good” across every area: “Our quality of teaching, learning and assessment are good”, “overall achievement has improved” and “we continue to nurture the culture of inclusion across the college. Staff, learners and apprentices embrace and promote equality of opportunity and celebrate diversity” as stated in a recent OFSTED inspection.

Each year approximately 5000 young people choose to continue their studies with us either as a full-time student or apprentice, a further 200 choose to undertake a university-level qualification with us and around 100 adult students.  Overall, we have around 5,500 full-time students in the College and 700 in our University Campus.

Our ambition is to be “The Best Place to Learn and Work”. We expect a lot from you, so we want ambitious, open minded candidates, who are ready to give their best. But we give a lot in return, from training to pensions, our own benefits package, and one of the best and most helpful group of colleagues you could ever wish to meet.  

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable laws, a pre-employment screening could include, employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the role.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Any appointments will be subject to enhanced DBS checks and a check of the DfE Barred List.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation Act 1974. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and vulnerable adults.