At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage property projects, ensuring safety and compliance across multiple sites.
- Company: Join Hays, a leader in property and real estate management.
- Benefits: Flexible working hours, competitive salary, and career development opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for growth in a fast-paced environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on property management while developing your skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in property management or related fields is essential.
The predicted salary is between 33075 - 40425 £ per year.
Full time / Flexible working
Industry: Property & Real Estate / Property and Surveying
Company: Hays
Consultant: Lee Pittman
Hays office: Maidstone — Unit 24, Hollingworth Court, Turkey Mill, Ashford Road
Phone: 02084646678
Email: Lee.Pittman@hays.com
Purpose of the Role
To support the management, maintenance, and improvement of the regional property portfolio, ensuring operational sites remain safe, compliant, efficient, and fit for purpose. The role will be responsible for managing smaller maintenance, refurbishment, and property improvement projects whilst supporting the Regional Property Manager on larger and more complex schemes. Working across a multi-site operational estate, the role combines practical project delivery, contractor management, compliance monitoring, technical property support, and operational stakeholder engagement. The role requires a capable property professional, with the ability to deliver projects, and support wider FM or property initiatives, from scope development through to delivery and handover. Whilst also developing broader experience in property management and capital project delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the day-to-day management of the regional property portfolio across operational and office locations.
- Independently manage smaller maintenance, refurbishment, and property improvement projects from scope development through contractor appointment, delivery, cost control, and handover.
- Support the Regional Property Manager with larger capital projects, major works, and operational property initiatives.
- Prepare scopes of work, technical specifications, contractor requirements, and cost estimates for maintenance and project activities.
- Support contractor and consultant procurement, tender reviews, contractor appointments, quotations, and performance monitoring activities.
- Undertake regular site visits and property inspections to monitor property condition, compliance, maintenance requirements, health & safety matters, and contractor performance.
- Support and promote Health & Safety standards across the estate, ensuring activities are properly controlled and delivered in accordance with company procedures and statutory requirements.
- Liaise with operational teams, engineering managers, landlords, contractors, consultants, and suppliers regarding property and maintenance matters.
- Support compliance activities including statutory inspections, remedial works tracking, contractor compliance documentation, and property record management.
- Maintain property records, project trackers, contractor information, specifications, and compliance documentation.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders, including Engineering, Health & Safety, Procurement, Finance, and Legal teams where required.
Qualifications & Experience
- Experience within property, estates, facilities management, construction, building surveying, or related property environments.
- Technical qualification in Building Surveying, Construction, Property, Engineering, or related discipline is essential.
- Experience coordinating contractors, maintenance works, for property-related projects.
- Ensuring delivery to budget, time and quality standards.
- Good understanding of property maintenance, contractor management, compliance, and health & safety requirements.
- Competent using Microsoft Office systems and general reporting tools.
- Good stakeholder management and communication skills with a collaborative approach.
- Confident in coordinating contractors, maintenance activities, and operational property works.
- Good technical understanding of property maintenance, building fabric, and operational property requirements.
- Attention to detail and commitment to safety, compliance, quality, and operational standards.
- Financially aware with the ability to manage smaller project budgets and contractor cost control.
- Flexible approach to support working in a fast-paced operational environment.
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