Campus Facilities and Maintenance Manager

Location: North Harbour Campus or Highbury Campus

Salary: £37,127.24 - 38,225.61 Full Time Equivalent per annum

Hours of work: 37 Hours per week, 52 Weeks per year, Full-Time, Permanent

About us: At City of Portsmouth College, we aspire to be the employer of choice in the Portsmouth area, with a progressive, supportive, and rewarding workplace culture and one that offers competitive benefits for its staff. By joining us, you will personally be part of the change we are driving and will play a pivotal role in supporting the growth and development of our brilliant students, turning them into future leaders and innovators.

What we offer:

• Annual Leave: 32 days total and closure for winter shutdown period in line with Hampshire County Council school holidays & statutory bank holidays
• Pension: Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Learning & Development: Programmes by The Community Adult Education Department
• Staff Development: Access to the College staff development programmes and CPD
• Onsite Discounts: City of Portsmouth College Hair Salon & 50% off at the City of Portsmouth College Sports Centre
• Online Discounts: Unidays, Student Beans, and Totum with a City of Portsmouth College email address
• Parking: Free car parking across all campus sites (apart from Arundel)
• Blue Light Card: providing several discounts for clothing, electrical goods, food and days out, even concert tickets!

About the role: The Campus Facilities and Maintenance Manager will lead the operational Estates team at the North Harbour Campus, including the Cleaning Supervisors, Cleaners and Caretakers. They will be responsible to the Head of Estates & Facilities for ensuring the team is enabled to meet the Colleges standards and objectives. The post holder shall work closely with the Director of Operations on the delivery of its sustainability strategy as the College traverses its carbon reduction journey.

Key Responsibilities:

• To lead and develop a professional customer focussed team.
• To have a good understanding of financial and procurement operations including management of contractors.
• Lead the efforts to process all estates related purchase orders.
• Receipting all goods received and processing/checking consequential invoices.
• Analysing utilities bills and liaising with suppliers to address any anomalies.
• To manage Cleaning Supervisors to ensure departmental budget expenditure is managed, monitored, and controlled in accordance with College financial policies and procedures.
• Leading the Cleaning Supervisors to provide general administrative support and management of any estates databases and SharePoint data.
• Assist Head of Estates & Facilities with external bookings including liaising with external customers, all paperwork, co-ordination of services, raising invoices and completing information updates.
• To provide support to other College management as directed by the Head of Estates & Facilities.
• To support the Director of Estates with the delivery of the Colleges Sustainability Strategy, leading on projects that will impact and reduce our environmental footprint.
• Work collaboratively with Stakeholders across the College to ensure optimum utilisation of space and Estates resources whilst minimising utility consumption.
• To promote sustainable environmental management practice across the four campuses, assisting with the development of an environmental management system.
• To identify opportunities to enhance positive environmental impacts across the college.
• Develop and deliver a waste minimisation program embedding principles of the circular economy within our models for resource usage.

To be successful in this role, below is what we would need from you:

• Membership of a relevant professional body, e.g., IWFM, IEMA, desirable.
• Undergraduate Degree or equivalent in Sustainability, Engineering, or another related subject, desirable.
• Equivalent job role dealing with financial, administrative, and environmental functions.
• Good understanding of financial systems & operations.
• Excellent IT skills including good working knowledge of Microsoft packages & financial software systems.

Diversity and Inclusion: Equality, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are central to the work of City of Portsmouth College. This underpins the vision of the College to transform lives through providing exceptional education and training.

Pre-Employment Checks: The City of Portsmouth College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our college. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and two references.