Building Services & Compliance Manager

The Perse School; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The Perse School Cambridge is seeking a Building Services and Compliance Officer within the Estates Department to ensure safe, compliant and well-maintained school facilities. You will oversee building services, planned upgrades, compliance checks, and contractor on-site supervision, with responsibility for evidence and record-keeping to support regulatory requirements and safety across all school sites.

A proactive approach, attention to detail and ability to work with pupils and staff are

Job description

An interesting opportunity has arisen within the Perse School Estates Department for a Building Services and Compliance Officer. The purpose of the Estates Department is to ensure that the School sites provide a safe, attractive and well-maintained environment for pupils, staff and visitors by ensuring the real estate is routinely enhanced and kept in safe working order. We aim to undertake all of this to the highest standard and keep quality and safe work at the forefront of our approach.

This post is designed to support the safe, efficient and compliant operation of the school estate and promote quality in building services, minor works and compliance. The successful candidate will play a large part in ensuring various building services support end user requirements and are effectively serviced and maintained. This will include proactive and reactive support and supervision of planned upgrades.

The post holder will be further expected to support this via undertaking certain compliance checks, completing associated repairs where suitable, managing contractors on site to ensure compliance in more specialist areas, creating action plans where remedial work is required and ensuring evidence and record keeping of estates compliance is clear and well ordered.

The Perse School Cambridge is one of the country's leading independent co-educational day schools for children aged 3-18.

Our aim is to be a leading employer of choice. This means we strive to be a school where staff say they are proud and excited to work, and feel valued, respected and motivated., The Perse School recognises that an important element in safeguarding our pupils is a robust recruitment process that incorporates measures to deter, reject or identify people who might abuse children, or who are otherwise unsuited to work with them. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including: references from previous employers, a Disclosure and Barring Service check at the enhanced level, as well as eligibility to work in the UK (in compliance with UK immigration regulations). All work carried out at the School on a regular basis amounts to regulated activity. This role is also exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

We are committed to providing a very competitive salary and benefits scheme at the same time as offering a wide range of opportunities for personal and professional development. We want our staff to feel engaged and purposeful so that they, in turn, help pupils to be happy and successful.