Assistant Maintenance Manager

King's College London; London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

King's College London is seeking an Assistant Maintenance Manager to lead a team responsible for ensuring the operational performance and safety of critical facilities. The role entails managing compliance, maintenance schedules, and liaising with subcontractors, making it essential for the uninterrupted functioning of university operations. Candidates should possess relevant technical qualifications and team management experience.

Benefits

Generous annual leave allowance

Opportunities for professional learning and development

Excellent pension scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in facilities management and maintenance is essential.
• Strong IT skills, particularly in Word, Excel, and role-related applications.
• Understanding of health and safety processes is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for operational performance and safety of buildings.
• Manage a team for planned preventative and reactive maintenance.
• Conduct fault finding and ensure compliance with regulations.

Skills

Team management

Customer service

Analytical problem-solving

Education

Level 3 in Mechanical, Electrical, or HVAC

City & Guilds certificate in an appropriate engineering discipline

English and Mathematics GCSE Grade C / 7 or above

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

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About King’s

The King’s Estates & Facilities Engineering Team manages reactive, planned and statutory maintenance to ensure King’s remains one of the world’s top Universities.

About King’s

The King’s Estates & Facilities Engineering Team manages reactive, planned and statutory maintenance to ensure King’s remains one of the world’s top Universities.

About The Role

Responsible for a team providing Hard Services, planned preventative and reactive maintenance, throughout designated University buildings, ensuring adherence to operational, regulatory and University compliance requirements.

The Assistant Maintenance Manager (AMM) will have responsibility for the operational performance and safety of their buildings and will have responsibility for liaising with sub-contractors and other building dedicated engineers to maintain high quality service delivery and maximum system uptime.

The AMM will be the custodian of all building services and will be the main on-site control function for Permits to Work and access to the site.

The role is critical to maintaining University functions, and it will lead a specialist team of operational maintenance technicians focussing upon critical, essential, statutory and non-essential systems and asset operational maintenance.

This role comes with excellent benefits, including but not limited to:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Range of opportunities for professional learning and development
• Excellent pension scheme
  
  

Roles And Responsibilities Include

• Developing a complete familiarity with the operation and recovery of all business-critical systems within the building portfolio
• Carry out and monitor planned preventative maintenance and report faults and ensure compliance with all relevant guidelines, statutory acts and regulations. Update site-specific work schedules and re-programme regularly
• Take specific responsibility for the maintenance and operation of the sites building services
• Team management including 121s and regular meetings
• Raise purchase orders
• Maintain a Safe Systems of Work process and periodically update as may be required
• Manage and conduct fault finding
• Conduct statutory system and asset testing and report accordingly
• Deal responsibly with emergencies and breakdowns
• Attendance may also be required occasionally outside normal hours to deal with certain maintenance procedures and specialist critical system contractors
• Deliver and comply with all statutory, client specific environmental, health, safety and quality standards applicable to the University environment
• Minimise the risk of plant failure and breakdown and promote a reliability centred and conditioned based proactive maintenance process
• You will be expected to deliver a high level of customer focused service and participate in training when required
• Provide an escalation service for the on-call engineers, on a rota basis with other AMMs across the estate
  
  

This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential Criteria

• Level 3 and above in a certified Mechanical, Electrical, or HVAC specialism and/or Minimum City & Guilds certificate/s within an appropriate engineering discipline. English and Mathematics GCSE Grade C / 7 or above (or equivalent)
• IT literate with a good understanding of Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, and role related applications
• A good understanding of health and safety processes and policies and knowledge of statutory compliance particularly around planned maintenance
• Good knowledge of engineering designs, installations, maintenance and repairs
• Effective communication skills to convey information clearly
• Experience of managing a team
• Self-motivated with a willingness to provide excellent customer service
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities
  
  

Desirable criteria

• IOSH Managing Safely
• First Aid qualified
• Knowledge and experience of working in critical environments
  
  

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

Grade and Salary: £44,355 - £51,735 per annum inclusive of London Weighting

Job ID: 116325

Close Date: 15-Jun-2025

Contact Person: Steven Wardell

Contact Details: [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Higher Education

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