Building Services Manager

Girling Jones Ltd; Devon and Torbay; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Girling Jones Ltd is seeking a Building Services Manager to lead M&E services for a dispersed Devon/Somerset estates portfolio, covering 100+ sites. You will oversee maintenance, safety compliance and project delivery, shaping annual programmes and managing consultants and contractors.

With broad M&E knowledge and contract/budget experience, you will drive improvements across power, lighting, heating, ventilation, fire safety and energy efficiency, while ensuring regulatory compliance and

Qualifications

• The successful Building Services Manager will bring broad M&E/building services knowledge and experience in maintenance contracts across a multi-site estate.
• Experience managing statutory compliance, planned preventative maintenance and reactive maintenance.
• Proven ability to deliver major and minor M&E projects with contract administration and budgeting.
• Experience managing building services consultants, contractors and suppliers.
• Ability to translate condition surveys into practical programmes of work.
• Knowledge of building services legislation, standards and compliance requirements.
• Understanding of Health & Safety, Building Regulations, water regs, asbestos and CDM.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead for M&E and building services across the portfolio.
• Manage statutory compliance and planned/reactive maintenance programmes.
• Undertake property inspections and condition surveys to identify works and priorities.
• Develop annual programmes of building services maintenance, servicing and improvement works.
• Manage M&E projects from scope through procurement to delivery.
• Prepare and review technical specs, drawings, cost estimates and work instructions.
• Manage external consultants, contractors and maintenance providers including contract admin and payment.
• Monitor contractor performance, quality and H&S standards.
• Maintain accurate maintenance and asset records and flag non-compliance.
• Provide technical input on power, lighting, heating, ventilation, fire detection, security, data installations and renewables.
• Support wider property projects with building services advice and energy efficiency initiatives.

Skills

M&E building services

Contract management

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Health & Safety

Energy efficiency

Education

Building Services qualification

Tools

CAD

Job description

Building Services Manager

Exeter Devon & Somerset portfolio

An established public–sector organisation is looking to appoint a Building Services Manager to join its Estates team, based from Exeter.

This is a varied estates environment covering approximately 100 operational sites across Devon and Somerset, including training facilities, offices, workshops and a stores facilities. Properties differ considerably in their age, use and operating requirements, with many locations occupied around different working patterns. As a result, the estate presents an interesting mix of planned maintenance, statutory compliance, reactive works and longer–term improvement projects.

The Role

As a Building Services Manager, you will act as the Estates team's technical lead for Mechanical & Electrical building services, supporting the ongoing maintenance, improvement and renewal of the organisation's property portfolio.

Working closely with the Senior Property Manager and wider Estates team, you will take ownership of building services compliance and help shape annual maintenance and improvement programmes. You will also oversee consultants and contractors delivering planned, reactive and project works across the estate.

• Acting as the technical lead for M&E and building services matters across the property portfolio.
• Managing statutory compliance alongside planned and reactive maintenance programmes.
• Undertaking property inspections and condition surveys, identifying required works and advising on priorities.
• Developing annual programmes of building services maintenance, servicing, replacement and improvement works.
• Managing M&E projects from initial scope through specification, procurement and delivery to completion.
• Preparing and reviewing technical specifications, drawings, cost estimates and work instructions.
• Managing external consultants, contractors and maintenance providers, including contract administration, certification and payment authorisation.
• Monitoring contractor performance, quality and Health & Safety standards.
• Maintaining accurate statutory maintenance and asset records and highlighting areas of risk or non–compliance.
• Providing technical input across power, lighting, heating, ventilation, fire detection and alarms, security, data installations and renewable technologies.
• Supporting wider property projects with specialist building services advice.
• Monitoring utilities and energy consumption across the estate and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Contributing to carbon reduction and environmental initiatives, including assessing new and emerging technologies.
• Ensuring works comply with relevant legislation, Building Regulations, Health & Safety requirements, CDM and internal procurement procedures.
• Managing works to agreed programmes and budgets while considering whole–life asset costs.

About You

The successful Building Services Manager will bring broad M&E/building services knowledge together with experience of managing maintenance contracts and projects across a multi–site estate.

You will ideally be able to demonstrate:

• Experience managing statutory compliance, planned preventative maintenance and reactive maintenance.
• A strong background delivering both major and minor M&E projects, including contract administration and budgetary control.
• Experience managing building services consultants, contractors and suppliers.
• The ability to undertake building services condition and asset surveys and translate findings into practical programmes of work.
• Experience preparing specifications, tender documentation, drawings and cost estimates.
• Good knowledge of building services legislation, technical standards and statutory compliance requirements.
• Understanding of Health & Safety, Building Regulations, water regulations, asbestos requirements and CDM.
• Knowledge of standard forms of contract, ideally including JCT, NEC and relevant building services contracts.
• Good commercial awareness, including cost planning, budget management and procurement.
• An understanding of carbon reduction, energy management, renewable technologies and current building services trends.
• Strong communication and stakeholder–management skills, with the ability to explain technical matters clearly to different audiences.
• The ability to organise competing priorities and manage multiple projects and maintenance requirements simultaneously.
• Confidence working independently and across a geographically dispersed estate.
• Competence using Microsoft Office and relevant estates/project maintenance systems; CAD experience would be beneficial.

You will hold a relevant Building Services, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering qualification, or be able to demonstrate equivalent industry knowledge and experience. Professional membership of a relevant body such as CIBSE, IET or IMechE would also be welcomed.

What's in it for you?

This is an opportunity to take a key technical role within a diverse and operationally important property portfolio. Rather than looking after a collection of similar commercial buildings, you'll work across an estate ranging from operational sites and training facilities through to offices, workshops and support buildings.

As a Building Services Manager, you'll have the scope to influence how building services are maintained and improved, shape future investment priorities and contribute to energy efficiency and carbon–reduction initiatives across the estate.