Vacancy overview

The King’s Estates & Facilities Engineering Team manages reactive, planned and statutory maintenance to ensure King’s remains one of the world’s top Universities.

Responsible for a team providing Hard Services, planned preventative and reactive maintenance, throughout designated  University buildings, ensuring adherence to operational, regulatory and University compliance requirements.

The Assistant Maintenance Manager (AMM) will have responsibility for the operational performance and safety of their buildings and will have responsibility for liaising with sub-contractors and other building dedicated engineers to maintain high quality service delivery and maximum system uptime.

The AMM will be the custodian of all building services and will be the main on-site control function for Permits to Work and access to the site.

The role is critical to maintaining University functions, and it will lead a specialist team of operational maintenance technicians focussing upon critical, essential, statutory and non-essential systems and asset operational maintenance.

• Developing a complete familiarity with the operation and recovery of all business-critical systems within the building portfolio

• Carry out and monitor planned preventative maintenance and report faults and ensure compliance with all relevant guidelines, statutory acts and regulations. Update site-specific work schedules and re-programme regularly

• Take specific responsibility for the maintenance and operation of the sites building services

• Team management including 121s and regular meetings

• Raise purchase orders

• Maintain a Safe Systems of Work process and periodically update as may be required

• Manage and conduct fault finding

• Conduct statutory system and asset testing and report accordingly

• Deal responsibly with emergencies and breakdowns

1.      Level 3 and above in a certified Mechanical, Electrical, or HVAC specialism and/or Minimum City & Guilds certificate/s within an appropriate engineering discipline. English and Mathematics GCSE Grade C / 7 or above (or equivalent)

2.      IT literate with a good understanding of Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, and role related applications

3.      A good understanding of health and safety processes and policies and knowledge of statutory compliance particularly around planned maintenance

4.      Good knowledge of engineering designs, installations, maintenance and repairs

5.      Effective communication skills to convey information clearly

6.      Experience of managing a team

7.      Self-motivated with a willingness to provide excellent customer service

8.      Analytical and problem-solving abilities

1.      IOSH Managing Safely

2.      First Aid qualified

3.      Knowledge and experience of working in critical environments

• Generous annual leave allowance

• Range of opportunities for professional learning and development

• Excellent pension scheme