Director of Estates

Location: Birmingham, Matthew Boulton (Agile working policy)

Working Pattern: Flexible

BMet

BMet is a large, multi-campus further education college, with a strong focus on raising aspirations and improving life chances for students.  We serve a diverse and vibrant community of c15,000 learners, with a mission to transform lives through education, skills, and training. We provide courses that are closely aligned to industry, and we have developed partnerships with world leading employers and links with top universities.  We have state of the art facilities, passionate staff, a diverse and broad course portfolio and are seen as a key institution within the City of Birmingham, BMet is an exciting and vibrant place to study and work.

We are now seeking a strategic, innovative, and results-driven Director of Estates to lead the development and delivery of our Estates strategy. You’ll be instrumental in shaping the physical environment of our campuses, ensuring they are safe, sustainable, future-ready, and aligned with the college’s ambitions for growth, excellence, and inclusion.

You will provide strategic and operational leadership for the College’s estates and facilities functions and with our new five-year strategy, the new Director will lead the implementation of the strategy across a varied and diverse estate portfolio. 

Bringing experience of leading estates and capital development across multi-site organisations, the successful candidate will need to give confidence to the board and bring credibility to lead across a complex and diverse organisation, ideally with experience of the public sector.

For more information, please visit our dedicated microsite https://andersonquigley.com/birmingham-metropolitan-college-director-of-estates/ and if you wish to have a confidential and informal conversation please do get in touch with our advising consultant at Anderson Quigley, Paul Aristides (paul.aristides@andersonquigley.com).

Closing date: 13 July 2026