Assistant Facilities Services Manager - Projects (LUM525/1662)

About the Role

There are a number of significant new projects coming to fruition in the next twelve months, including Pudsey Sixth Form, Enfield Centre at Mabgate, College House at Mabgate, Morley Centre, Keighley Met, Harrogate College, Park Lane block C, Temple Newsam.

The purpose of the role is to support the transition of new sites currently under construction, into Estates business as usual. This will involve liaising with project managers within Capital Projects, Departmental heads and principals, contractors and colleagues within Estates Directorate (Facilities Managers, Property and Maintenance staff) to ensure a coordinated and compliant transfer, so that complete records of each new site are set up, operation and maintenance manuals transferred, maintenance requirements, warranties, plans and schematics, building services responsibilities are clear and all required information, systems and resources needed to operate the buildings are in place.

It will also involve assisting with the planning and delivery of any moves and clearance of any vacated bulidings as required. 

If successful at shortlisting stage, interviews will be held on 6 February 2025.

What You Will Do

• Support the Facilities team in the transfer of new or refurbished buildings or new leased properties, into business as usual by capturing requirements at handover, either from contractors/developers or from departments moving into new premises
• Acting as central liaison between these and the various estates support teams taking over responsibility for the detailed requirements (FM, Compliance, SHE services, Sustainability, and the incorporation of these requirements into existing contracts and in house service level provision and systems 
• Liaise and communicate with a range of managers, contractors and staff.
• Support, on direction the commissioning and opening of any capital building and act as the key site contact as required. 
• Plan timelines for several projects taking place in parallel, deriving action lists for each.
• Assist with procurement of contracts and goods, manage large numbers of data and electronic documents and organise and deliver briefings to groups of stakeholders about specific aspects of particular projects. 

About You

• Must have demonstrable and significant experience in management of facilities/property maintenance
•  Educated to level 2
• Have a full UK driving licence
• Previous experience in successfully building/leading/supporting/motivating teams. 
• Proven ability to analyse complex data and produce succint reports,
• Use new technology to improve services

Benefits

There are plenty of benefits available to our staff members, here are just a few:

• Generous Annual leave entitlement - If you work full time, you'll get at least 39 days holiday plus bank holidays. This includes closure days at Christmas (pro rata for part time staff).
  • Support Staff 39 days
  • Academic 44 days
  • Senior Management 44 days
• Excellent Pension schemes
  • Teachers’ Pension Scheme 
  • Local Government Pension Scheme 
• Memberships and discounts - employees can sign up to various membership cards and discount schemes such as TOTUM card (formerly NUS card). 
• Travel and commuting - discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
• Learning and development opportunities -  including staff development days
• Employee wellbeing initiatives
• Flexible and hybrid working opportunities - this will vary depending on role requirements

About Us

Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.

We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.

As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.

Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.

Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.

SAFEGUARDING

At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in recruitment is key to our Group’s values. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that embraces equality, diversity and inclusion in all its forms, where every candidate is treated with fairness, respect, and equity. Our recruitment processes are designed to ensure equal opportunities, remove bias, and promote a diverse talent pool. We continually assess and improve our practices to ensure that every individual, regardless of background, has an equal chance to succeed. By championing EDI, we aim to create a workforce that reflects the richness of our communities and drives innovation through diverse perspectives. To find out more about what our commitment to EDI means to us please Click here to learn more about our EDI objectives.

RECRUITMENT AGENCIES

We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not forward any unsolicited CVs in relation to any of our advertised roles or speculatively. If we require support with any of our vacancies we will get in touch with agencies directly.

• We do not recognise submissions of unsolicited or speculative CV applications from recruitment agencies.
• We shall not be liable for any fee / commission in the event we employ a candidate that may have been submitted as an unsolicited/speculative application from an uninstructed recruitment agency.