Building Manager

ENGINEERINGUK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at an established industry leader, focusing on managing commercial property assets across Scotland. This role offers a unique opportunity to oversee maintenance projects, ensuring compliance and efficiency. You'll be at the forefront of enhancing the safety and reliability of the railway network while working flexibly to balance your career and personal life. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this company supports its employees' growth through training and development opportunities. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact, this position is for you!

Benefits

28 days annual leave

Discounted online shopping

Childcare vouchers

Healthcare offers

Subsidies on rail season tickets

Pension schemes

Paid reserve leave for Armed Forces community

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• MRICS qualified with experience in property maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Manage maintenance delivery organisations and related consultants.
• Provide technical advice on structural integrity and maintenance.

Skills

People management skills

Understanding of statutory requirements

Understanding of CDM regulations

Experience in property maintenance

Education

Degree level education or equivalent

MRICS qualified

Job description

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About Network Rail

At Network Rail, our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We're an organisation where people matter. Watch our video to find out more!

Scotland's Railway is part of this large family, and it covers a large geographical area from the Borders to Thurso at the far tip of the North East of Scotland, accounting for almost 20 per cent of the UK rail network. We provide rapid access along busy commuter routes to our seven cities, servicing the varied needs of our business and leisure commuter services, including cross border services and rural services. We have up to 50 freight services operating every day and we are steadily building capacity for this to grow. Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users, drives us every day and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues and protecting safety and wellbeing.

Our colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly as we know that busy lives don't always fit around a traditional working pattern, if you need flexibility to complete your role just let us know and we will do our upmost to help you to invest in your career with us while balancing other aspects of your life.

We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.

We want to help deliver a railway which is safe, reliable, affordable and that provides great customer service to everyone. For more information about Network Rail click here

Brief Description

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a unique and diverse team, delivering and generating income via Network Rail's commercial property assets.

A typical day in the role includes managing the commercial property building team to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of our investment projects alongside the planned and reactive maintenance programmes through delivery organisations and professional support consultants. Providing professional building surveying guidance to the wider team, ensuring statutory compliance is maintained across the estate.

There are over 500 assets and sites geographically spread across Scotland, with a large variety of occupiers from large retailers and train operating companies to SMEs. The role is to act as the delivery organisation, to assist and unlock opportunities for income as well as ensuring compliance across the estate.

About the role (External)

Here are some of the duties your role will include: -

• Manage the delivery of all maintenance delivery organisations and related professional support consultants.
• Manage property's planned maintenance budget.
• Provide technical advice on all matters relating to the structural integrity, building defects, maintenance delivery mechanisms and costs pertaining to the assets.
• Produce appropriate remits and specifications for planned and cyclical maintenance and provide to maintenance delivery organisations as required.
• Deliver the maintenance programme in compliance with statutory legislation, best practice and professional guidance.
• Advise the route estates on tenant non-compliance of maintenance obligations in leases.
• Review reports from professional support consultants and implement or make recommendations as appropriate for repair and renewal works for the portfolio.
• Develop and implement, in conjunction with Contracts & Procurement, contractual mechanisms that deliver optimal building whole life costs.
• Develop and maintain appropriate relationships with property market professionals, contractors, local authorities and within Network Rail to ensure effective maintenance of the estate.
• Make certain that communication between all parties involved in the property maintenance process is effective and consistent, thereby maximising profit.
• Undertake under CDM Regulations, as role of Client Representative, Designer and CDM Co-ordinator on behalf of Network Rail in line with company standards.

What you will bring to the role: -

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• MRICS qualified
• People management skills
• Full Driving Licence

• Understanding of statutory and / or rail industry requirements for maintenance and construction
• Understanding of CDM regulations
• Experience of property maintenance and / or renewals

It's desirable if you have it to help give you context to the role: -

• Relevant post-qualification experience

• Understanding of railway safety regime
• Contract management experience

How to apply (External)

Salary: £55,596 - £63,797 per annum

Network Rail Benefits - To find out about what benefits we offer, click here

Closing date: Midnight on 21 st May 2025.

Please get your application in as soon as possible, we may close the advert before the listed closing date if we receive enough applications. Late applications will not be accepted.

Click 'apply now' to apply.

We're dedicated to creating an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from everyone!

Network Rail is a Disability Confident Leader and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles. You can visit Evenbreak's Career Hive for advice on accessibility support if you're unsure of the options available. Should you require any reasonable adjustments/modifications, please add a note to your application.

All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks. Click here for more information

Keeping people safe on the railway is at the heart of everything we do. Safe behaviour is therefore a requirement of working for Network Rail. You should demonstrate your personal dedication to safety on your application.

Company

Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges – but also tremendous opportunities.

From our commitments to your development, our range of benefits and our approach to Diversity & Inclusion, we believe there are many reasons to join the team at Network Rail.

We’re proactive in empowering employees with the knowledge to help them progress. We encourage all our employees to be ambitious, and offer great training and career development opportunities. As the railway becomes bigger and more technologically advanced, it’s crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead.

We believe that investing in our people is one of the most effective ways of improving the safety, reliability and efficiency of the railway.

We also know that it’s vital to get each individual’s training programme just right. As well as helping us to meet our immediate needs, we believe this is an approach that encourages people to stay with us and develop their careers.

Your health, wellbeing and benefits

We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and this doesn’t just mean safety on the railway! We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and believe, that should come first.

We provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health and wellbeing. In addition to this, we offer excellent benefits, are sensitive to work-life balance and encourage our employees to use their 5 volunteer days for their favourite causes.

We have a range of benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave entitlement.
• My benefits – Our discounted online shopping site.
• A range of discounted offers including, childcare vouchers, Healthcare offers – cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits.
• Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
• A range of pension schemes.
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.

What Diversity and Inclusion means to us

‘Diversity’ means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourages innovative and fresh ways of thinking.

Our aspiration is that the behaviours and actions that support diversity and inclusion will come from the conviction of everyone here at Network Rail – making diversity and inclusion a conscious part of how we run our business throughout Britain.

Disability Confident Leader

Network Rail is an accreditedDisability Confident Leader . This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.

Find out more about our recruitment processhere

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