Royal Mail Group
Location
Guildford, Surrey | United Kingdom
Job description
Job reference number 306521
Salary: £45,000 – £47,000 (subject to experience) £5,944 car allowance per annum, bonus potential 12%
22.5 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Permanent
To cover RG, SL and GU postcodes
With c1850 properties and 33 million sq ft of space spread across the UK, Royal Mail’s portfolio is one of the largest corporate estates in Europe. With a diverse property portfolio from local delivery offices, corporate offices, vehicle garages and rail hubs through to our new state-of-the-art fully automated parcel superhubs. The size, reach and complexity of the estate is vast alongside the potential for you to develop your career within one of the UKs largest industrial and logistics operators.
Royal Mail’s Property and Facilities Solutions provide a wide variety of technical services for all Royal Mail properties nationwide. We have a vacancy for an experienced Technical Services Manager to lead dedicated technician teams across multiple sites in and around the South of England, to cover Reading (RG), Slough (SL) and Guildford (GU) postcodes.
About the role
As the Technical Services Manager, you’ll have responsibility for the safe, profitable, and quality delivery of Facilities Management Technical Services within the region and for driving productivity and exceeding targets through active management, employee engagement and continuous improvement.
With 20 direct reports, you'll lead a team of BES, F&S, BFM and Assets Engineers in the delivery of Technical Services. Responsibilities include recruitment, conducting inductions, training identification, attendance and performance management, monitoring safety performances and ensuring key business information and messages are cascaded in a timely and accurate manager.
As the safety lead, you’ll deliver core safety information and team briefs, conduct safety audits to ensure safe systems of work are embedded and followed.
Working collaboratively with the Facilities Management Works Scheduling team, you’ll ensure both scheduled and non-planned work is delivered in the most cost effect manner, productivity and customer satisfaction targets are exceeded and costs are controlled appropriately to achieve financial P&L targets.
You’ll work with the relevant Contract Managers, SME’s and Technical Compliance Managers to ensure the successful delivery of all third-party supplier services within their designated area and recovery plans are in place and monitored to required standards.
The role will involve frequent travel around South of England sites and a full UK driving licence is required.
Attendance
Monday to Friday, predominantly 08:00 - 16:00. A degree of flexibility is required to meet operational demands - this may involve early, night and ad-hoc weekend attendance to support the engineering team.
You need to be available for the manager call out rota as required (approx. 1 in 6 weekends/unsociable hours) and Technical Operations Manager cover when required.
About you
You need to demonstrate the following skills and experience on your CV:
• A background of hard services operational experience at a relevant mechanical and electrical engineering leadership level (essential)
• A Relevant technical qualification at or above NVQ level 3 (or equivalent) in Building and Maintenance
• Excellent knowledge of Health, Safety and Compliance legislation relating to FM services industry, must have knowledge of CDM Regulations 2015
• Demonstrable experience of financial management and cost control with a proven history of targeted achievements
• Demonstrable experience of leading, supporting, managing and developing a team of engineers to improve performance
• Experience of working within a unionised environment
• Effective communication skills with demonstrable experience of dealing with people at all levels of the business
Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve. We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.
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Closing Date: 12th March. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
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