Utilities & Facilities Manager

OxOn Arts; Oxford; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford Playhouse is seeking a Utilities & Facilities Manager to join the Operations Department. You will oversee facilities and services across Oxford Playhouse and Burton Taylor Studio, ensuring reliability, safety and compliance while improving environmental impact.

Role focuses on buildings and general services; experience in theatre is not essential. You will manage a maintenance team and contractors, with flexibility to work outside performance times as required.

Qualifications

• Experience in facilities or building services, mechanical, electrical or plumbing.
• A working knowledge of relevant health and safety regulations.
• Commitment to delivering a high standard of work.
• Proactive approach to identifying requirements and solutions.
• Ability to build positive working relationships with colleagues and contractors.
• Diligent record-keeping and cost control.
• Commitment to sustainability and energy efficiency.
• Flexibility to work early, late or weekend hours.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance and repair of fixed plant and equipment, including plumbing, mechanical, electrical and seating.
• Develop and implement a planned preventative maintenance programme with regular checks and audits.
• Ensure all statutory inspections and certifications are up to date and remedial works scheduled promptly.
• Programme and operate the Building Management System to control heating, cooling and ventilation efficiently.
• Monitor energy and utility usage and identify opportunities for savings.
• Participate in the Sustainability Committee and propose improvements.
• Manage health, safety and wellbeing of staff, contractors and colleagues, including risk assessment and safe systems of work.

Job description

Oxford Playhouse is looking for a Utilities & Facilities Manager to join the Operations Department. Working across Oxford Playhouse and Burton Taylor Studio, you'll help us ensure our facilities and services are reliable, efficient, safe and compliant, so we can deliver high-quality experiences and improve our environmental impact.

Oxford Playhouse is one of the country’s leading regional theatres and the only not-for-profit mid-scale venue in Oxfordshire. The theatre is at the heart of cultural life in the city and region, with a wonderfully rich heritage of live performance, drama, dance, music and comedy, and a thriving programme of participatory workshops and projects. We also produce mid-scale and studio productions, including a hugely popular pantomime which plays to audiences of over 40,000 each year.

This role is focussed on the buildings and general services and plant across the site, whereas a specialist team are responsible for the stage, theatrical lighting, sound and other services for the productions. Previous experience in theatre is therefore not essential.

Key responsibilities include:

• Be responsible for the maintenance and repair of fixed plant and equipment, including plumbing, mechanical, electrical, utilities, white goods, and auditorium seating.
• Develop and implement a planned preventative maintenance programme, including regular walk-rounds, tests, inspections and audit of plant, equipment and building fabric.
• Assist the Director to ensure all statutory inspections and certifications are up to date, actions or recommendations are acted on and required remedial works are scheduled promptly.
• Programme and operate the Building Management System to control cooling, ventilation and heating systems efficiently.
• Regularly monitor our energy and utility usage. Proactively improve energy efficiency, identifying and implementing savings wherever possible.
• Participate in our Sustainability Committee (Green Team) and proactively identify opportunities for us to improve.
• Manage the health, safety and wellbeing of the Maintenance Technician, contractors, and other colleagues working with you, with particular regard for risk assessment, working hours, COSHH, asbestos management, manual handling procedures and safe systems of work.

For a full description, please download a copy of the job description from our website.

• Relevant experience and transferable skills from one or more of: facilities or building services, mechanical, electrical or plumbing, or other related work, either in-house or as a contractor.
• Commitment to delivering a high standard of work.
• A working knowledge of relevant health and safety regulations.
• A proactive approach to identifying requirements and solutions.
• Ability to build positive working relationships with colleagues, trainees, contractors and service providers.
• Diligent approach to inspection, record-keeping and cost control.
• Commitment to sustainability and energy efficiency.
• Flexibility to work early, late or weekend hours to accommodate required works outside performance times.

We welcome applications from people with transferable skills and experience. Please download a copy of the job description from the Oxford Playhouse website for full details, and please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have about the organisation or role.