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Salary: £45,558 - £46,598

Hours per week: 37

Weeks per Annum: 52

Working pattern: Monday to Thursday 7.5 hours per day, Friday 7 hours per day

Location: Common Leys Campus

Contract type: maternity cover - fixed-term (up to 1 year)

This is an exciting, fixed term maternity cover vacancy that will underpin the smooth, secure, safe, and efficient day to day delivery of the operational estate and facilities services at our Witney and Common Leys Farm campuses.

Responsibilities:

• Collecting and recording quality data to ensure that the departments performance reporting is accurate and to a good quality.
• Ensuring that remedial works identified by PPM/ Compliance/ Mandatory checks and tests are undertaken to a suitable standard and in a timely manner.
• Undertaking regular audits and reviews to ensure that the estate is maintained in a safe and suitable condition, and issues and risks are identified.
• Responsible for the administration and accurate record keeping of all work undertaken by contractors and in-house staff on the estate, including records required to meet legislative and statutory requirements
• Ensuring that planned preventative maintenance work completed undertaken by the Estates site teams is undertaken as required.

Essential Experience:

• Excellent knowledge of building management systems (BMS), maximising efficiencies in space usage and utilities consumption, estates compliance legislation, and lead the on-site Estates delivery teams on the Witney and Common Leys farm campuses in the implementation of best practices.
• Lead the preparation, prioritisation, co-ordination and delivery of planned and reactive maintenance to a high quality and in a timely manner, and management of contractors.
• Excellent communication skills, possess good IT skills, and be experienced in managing teams.
• Must have previous experience within an Estates/ Facilities Management role,

Desirable Experience:

• The successful candidate will ideally have a degree or equivalent qualification in Facilities Management/ Building Surveying or related discipline and relevant experience.
• Knowledge of developing and managing Helpdesk SLA's and KPIs, and a NEBOSH/ IOSH qualification.
• Experience within an education or health environment.

Why Work with us:

Excellent benefits for our employees including generous pension and holiday schemes (with potential Christmas closure days), continued professional development, flexible working options, corporate gym membership, cycle/tech scheme and much more.

Closing date: 31st August 2025 (Midnight)

*Abingdon and Witney College reserve the right to close all applications before posted closing date

AWC values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to safeguarding and expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all appointments are subject to satisfactory clearances including enhanced DBS checks.

Abingdon and Witney College are committed to safer recruitment practices. In addition to our pre-employment checks, we will conduct an online search. This includes checking Google main results feed as well as the 'News' and 'Images' tab. We will be checking for any publicly available information that suggests the applicant may not be suitable to work with children or young/vulnerable people or content that could potentially damage Abingdon and Witney College's reputation. This may include inappropriate posts, comments or images displaying evidence of offensive or inappropriate behaviour, jokes or language, discriminatory comments, inappropriate photos, drug or alcohol misuse.

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