Associate Director of Facilities Management Contracts

Facilities Manangement Contracts

The Estate and Facilities Directorate are responsible for delivery of the estates enabling strategy 2030. The directorate lead on delivery of property, space, projects, Sustainability, commercial and site management and services.

Reporting into the Executive Director of Estates and Facilities and as a member of the directorate’s Senior Management Team to be responsible for the leadership, management, and motivation of a multi-disciplinary team of property professionals and deliver high levels of customer service and campus services on each of the three campuses and associated premises.

The post holder will lead on all contractual elements of service delivery related to facilities management contracts.  In addition, they will assess, review, and develop policies and procedures to deliver service levels to ensure the appropriate physical environment. The postholder will lead a contract performance and monitoring function. The function will have oversight of all the NEC 4 contracts (NEC4 is the standard form contractual contract that the university has awarded the IFM to Sodexo) including Centaur and Sodexo. The function will establish good contract administration and ensure that all contractual matters are dealt with effectively. The role will ensure that the university retains good value for money for all contracted functions. The role will lead the building services function and energy management ensuring, that assets are operated efficiently and effectively.

For an informal discussion about the post please contact Chris Forster, Executive Director of Estates and Facilities. C.Forster@greenwich.ac.uk

Should you have any recruitment related queries please contact the People Directorate Recruitment Team on peopleoperations-estates@gre.ac.uk 

We operate a hybrid working policy, as set out in the University’s Working Principles and Guidelines.

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