Assistant Regional Engineering Manager - London

Savills Company; Greater London; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Savills is seeking an experienced Site Manager/Supervisor to support the Regional Engineering Management team in day-to-day portfolio operations. You will implement and maintain property management systems and oversee critical building services, ensuring safety, efficiency and compliance for occupiers and landlords.

You will assist with audits, budgeting, and coordination with service partners, while ensuring timely reporting and adherence to permits to work and CAFM processes.

Qualifications

• Experience as Site manager or Site Supervisor in an engineering discipline.
• Knowledge of compliance with current legislation including water quality and Health and Safety.
• Understanding of plant operations and equipment.
• Experience with implementing a Permit to Work system.
• Experience with CAFM systems and data management.
• Budgeting and reporting experience in facilities management.
• Ability to collaborate across internal teams, clients and service providers.
• Familiarity with tendering processes and mobilization.

Responsibilities

• Assist Regional Engineering Management with day-to-day portfolio management.
• Set up and maintain property management systems and procedures for service delivery.
• Audit and verify documentation and service partner records.
• Support Building Manager and wider property management team in operational matters.
• Coordinate budgets, procurement, and invoice processing per policy.
• Develop and manage environmental and energy conservation programs to optimize energy use.
• Review maintenance programmes, CAFM data, and monthly reports; monitor actions.
• Ensure compliance with current legislation and risk management standards.

Skills

Site management

Health and safety

Permit to work

Budget management

Data interpretation

Cross-functional teamwork

Tools

CAFM systems

Job description

Purpose of the Role

You will be responsible for assisting the Regional Engineering Management team with the day-today management of our managed portfolios. This would include implementing and maintaining effective property management systems and procedures in the delivery and continuity of service of the critical building infrastructure along with standard Mechanical, Electrical, Vertical Transportation and Public Health Services to Occupiers, while protecting and enhancing landlord owned plant and equipment. To contribute to the management of Health, Safety and Wellbeing for all users of the buildings.

In some cases set up the above in a new building.

Key Responsibilities

• Help with administrative aspects relating to our managed portfolios.
• Assist engineering managers when required – tasks will include and not limited to minuting meetings, auditing and talking to service partners.
• Covering workloads of engineering managers during periods of holiday.
• Crosschecking documentation, ensuring accurate documents are saved to our internal systems.
• Comply with Savills compliance procedures.
• Compliance with all current legislation and recommended business standards. Verify Contractors Risk Assessments, Insurance, accreditations etc. are up to date and relevant. Ensure Pressure Vessel Written Scheme is up to date. Ensure Contractors Emergency Lighting Log Records up to date. Management of Water Treatment regime ensuring that Water Treatment Manuals are up to date. Manage status of Lift Inspections and report via Lift minutes. Ensure that all statutory inspections are carried out by the due date and manage/monitor progress of actions via external reports spreadsheet attached to appropriate minutes. Ensure accurate reporting is undertaken via the business risk management system, demonstrating all risks are being managed within accordance with client and business expectations.
• Provide day-to-day technical and operational support to Building Manager and the wider property management team and Occupiers.
• Support to Building Management with Permit to Work System and check method statements where appropriate. Liaise with Building Management and Occupiers regarding operational and technical matters such as plant shutdowns and work impacting on Occupiers operation and risks associated with the works
• Undertake regular audits of maintenance programme. Review call out sheets and investigate as necessary. Review CAFM system including both PPM and reactive works. Carry out random verification of PPM works.
• Assist with budgets, to include procurement in accordance with business policy. Budget control, preparation of relevant specification, raising orders/instructions/ contracts and verifying (processing) invoices. To develop, implement and manage Environmental and Energy Conservation Programmes, (working with others where necessary) ensuring optimum usage of energy. To advise on potential problems or conflicts, improvements and possible savings. Analyse monitoring & targeting reports and investigate and action as necessary. Arrange independent energy audits as necessary and action recommendations as necessary.
• Analysis and management of all engineering data/reports, ensuring that appropriate action/follow up is achieved. Identify & agree specialist consultant roles and review consultants brief on a regular basis. Manage other audit reports. Review actions/progress and monitor monthly via external reports and reports monthly via the central London reporting criteria.
• Implementation, management and development of the Elogbooks planned maintenance system, ensuring information, plant history, drawings and technical information is accurate and up to date. Develop and maintain the base building asset register. Review and develop site-specific maintenance tasks. Ensure drawing and O & M’s are updated to reflect any changes carried out to the installed systems. Develop, implement and maintain site-specific plant replacement Programme in conjunction with Savills Engineering and Design consultancy.
• To ensure that the Building Management are regularly appraised of any new developments or issues of a problematic nature. Report on any emergency incident that occurs. Report on any concerns relating to plant operation or failure to maintain resilience. Report on any occupier conflicts or relationship related issues.
• To ensure that the Property's Electronic Security Systems are fully operational and maintained as per the Manufacturer's guidance, current best practice and in line with occupier requirements including FCA if required. Report on any concerns relating to plant operation. Liaise with the Engineering and Design consultancy Systems Department as required, regarding contract specifications, maintenance regimes, auditing, equipment upgrades, documenting changes etc. Ensure maintenance contracts are in place
• To ensure the requisite engineering standards executed in the management of buildings are commensurate with those standards promoted by the Board and detailed in the operations manuals.
• The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organisation.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Previous experience as a Site manager/Site Supervisor in an Engineering discipline.
• Knowledge of compliance with current legislation to include water quality, statutory maintenance tasks, and Health and Safety.
• Understand of technical operations of the plant and how equipment operates
• Experience of compliance and implementing a Permit to work system
• Experience and knowledge of SFG 20 or PPM. In addition, use of CAFM systems including the set up and maintenance of these.
• Knowledge of managing budgets and compiling reports
• Ability to review data and utilise to enable the best outcomes
• Working across teams including internal teams, clients and service providers
• Knowledge of processes such as the tender process and mobilisation
• Experience of ensuring that processes and guidelines are adhered to in line with the required standards
• Deciding and initiating actions.
• Adhering to principles and values.
• Planning and Organising
• Following Instructions and procedures
• Adapting and responding to change

Working Hours - Mon to Fri 0900 - 1730