Building Management Advisor, Analytical Services in Swansea

The role is responsible for effective building management, project and contract support at NRW’s analytical laboratory in Swansea University. This role ensures the site operates safely, efficiently, and in full compliance with all statutory and regulatory requirements. The role covers day-to-day management of both hard and soft services and requires a strong focus on maintaining a safe, high performing laboratory environment.

About Us: Our analytical laboratory provides essential scientific services that support Natural Resources Wales’ environmental monitoring, regulatory work, and evidence-based decision making. The laboratory plays a central role in generating high quality data that underpins how we protect, manage, and enhance Wales’ natural resources. You’ll be part of the National Operations Directorate, working closely with the Analytical Services Manager, who provides strategic leadership for laboratory services. The laboratory team collaborates with scientific, operational, and facilities colleagues across NRW.

Interview Details: Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date. Interviews will be face-to-face w/c 27 April 2026 (details of location will be shared in advance). To make an informal enquiry about this role, please contact Natalie Dudley-Burton at Natalie.DudleyBurton@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk.

What You Will Do:

• Provide a safe and healthy working environment for NRW staff, customers and visitors.
• Provide excellent frontline customer service and foster a culture of continuous improvement ensuring that NRW benefits from innovation and learning from best practice in delivering its analytical services.
• Provide supervisory responsibility to contractors ensuring work is prioritised, budget requirements met and excellent customer service maintained.
• Manage the provision of strategic advice for Facilities Management Service delivery including: Asset Management, administration, and reporting; Specialist reporting; Business continuity and resilience; Audit and risk; Health and Safety compliance; Business critical project support; Statistical and financial information; Other related Facilities Management services for the Laboratory, customers and suppliers.
• Demonstrate exemplar project management principles; including financial, programme, scope, risk and contract management for medium-complexity and medium-risk projects.
• Manage the procurement of all suppliers required to maintain Laboratory services.
• Undertake duties in line with delegated authority and NRW policies and procedures.
• Undertake health and safety duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post.
• Be committed to Natural Resources Wales Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy, together with an understanding of how it operates within the responsibilities of the post.
• Be committed to your own development through the effective use of your personal development plan (known as Sgwrs).
• Required to take part in incident response activities.
• Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.

Your qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills:

• Considerable experience working within a Facilities management discipline with a detailed understanding of developments in Facilities Management best practice.
• Ideally hold or be willing to work towards obtaining Member of IWFM.
• NEBOSH or IOSH qualification or similar.
• CDM qualified.
• Good inter-personal skills with the ability to work under pressure using your own initiative in order to meet tight deadlines.
• A recognised project management qualification is desirable, or a commitment to achieve within 6 months of being in post.
• A full and current UK driving licence.

Welsh Language level requirements: Essential: Level A1 – Entry level.

Benefits:

• Civil Service Pension Scheme offering employer contributions of 28.97% (successful internal staff will remain in their current pension scheme).
• 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days.
• Generous leave entitlements for all your life needs.
• Commitment to professional development.
• Health and wellbeing benefits and support.
• Weekly wellbeing hour to use as you choose.

Please keep reading: We’re passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities. We embrace equality of opportunity irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We are committed to equal opportunities, and we guarantee interviews for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. We want to attract and retain talented and highly skilled staff, so we make sure that our pay scales remain competitive. We advertise the full pay scale on our job descriptions. Appointed candidates start at the first point of the pay scale and annual increments are paid each year. Unless otherwise stated in the ‘Role’ section of this advert, Natural Resources Wales is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Although we hold a Skilled Worker visa sponsorship licence, it applies only to specific roles that meet both the eligibility criteria and salary requirements set out by the UK Government under the Skilled Worker visa route. We want our staff to grow professionally and personally. From leadership development to access to further and higher education courses, our staff have opportunities to expand their knowledge on a variety of topics, stay current in their field and continue to learn as their career progresses. We are a Bilingual organisation which complies with the Welsh Language Standards. Welsh language skills are considered an asset to NRW, and we encourage and support staff to learn, develop and use their Welsh language skills.