Technical Services Manager

About Role

As a member of the EAF management team, this senior role is the technical expert and will involve working directly with senior managers, engineering operatives delivering technical guidance, planning and decision support to the entire hard and soft services teams across the Queen Mary estate.

This post operates across all University campuses. The post holder will work with colleagues at the highest levels within the University and liaise with internal and external specialists, trade union and other employee representatives and the Health & Safety Executive to manage all Technical activities.

About You

You will have Chartered Engineer or Degree in Engineering or related discipline and professional recognition. It is expected that you will have a record of accomplishment of management and development experience and/or enhanced management qualification applied across a large service team or cross-functional teams, in a customer focussed and/or complex organisation. 

Candidates are expected to demonstrate continuing professional development to maintain professional recognition. 

The ideal candidate will have:

• Significant experience of effective people management
  and practice. 
• Excellent motivational and influencing skills, with high levels of Personal integrity.
• Demonstrable ability to provide specialist advice and influence others at operational and strategic levels
• Experience of managing substantial budgets
• Experience of change management

About the Directorate 

The Directorate is one of the largest departments within Queen Mary, University of London and is committed to supporting and promoting student wellbeing at the College, and providing the highest standards of estates and facilities across the university, preparing and helping to sustain the University’s working and learning environmental for students, staff, stakeholders, and guests by ensuring safe environments, security and cleanliness.   

Details about the Estates and Facilities Directorate can be found at http://www.estates.qmul.ac.uk/

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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