Estates Officer - Building (Public Sector)

Your new company
Hays have a temporary job opportunity for a Estates Officer (Building) to work with a large public sector organisation based from Downpatrick. This organisation has a large estate spanning several acres with a range of buildings varying in ages requiring a wide variety of engineering and building fabric maintenance services.

Your new role
This is a temporary position anticipated to last for 6-9 months based from Downpatrick with the requirement to travel to other sites in the area.You will assist in ensuring the satisfactory delivery of planned maintenance and minor works projects (up to c. £50,000 in value) from inception to completion to agreed quality, cost and programme. This will include:

• Liaising with stakeholders in the preparation and clarification of each project brief.
• Providing specialist professional advice and recommendations regarding building matters to support informed decision making.
• Carrying out feasibility studies, condition surveys, planning, design and cost analysis.
• Developing and critically analysing design options with multidisciplinary design teams.
• Liaising and informing internal stakeholders at all project stages to ensure business continuity.
• Monitoring the quality of works undertaken against the project brief / organisation standards.
• Meetings with the contractors on-site in order to issue jobs/maintenance works to be undertaken and follow up on works undertaken;
• Issue of daily permits-to-work and hot-works permits;
• Supervision of contractors as the need arises;
• Day to day budgetary management, including checking and processing of works cost estimates/tenders and invoices.

What you'll need to succeed
To be considered for this position, you should possess:
A Degree in a Building / Engineering related discipline with 1 year’s project management experience in the design, maintenance, construction or management of buildings, or; An HND/HNC in a Building / Engineering related discipline with 4 years project management experience in the design, maintenance, construction or management of buildings.Key experience should include:

• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders;
• Knowledge of the role of a Project Manager.

• Knowledge of different procurement routes such as Measured Term Contracts etc.
• Knowledge of various methods to prepare budget estimates and management of accounts for projects.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety requirements.
• Knowledge of building/engineering design, to current statutory standards and codes of practice.

What you'll get in return
This position offers full time hours 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday, working alongside a highly experienced and professional team of engineers and surveyors.Salary range £33,500 - £40,500 pro rata on a PAYE basis. The rate of pay will depend on experience and qualifications. You will be paid weekly via BACS transfer every Friday morning.
Working via Hays Specialist Recruitment means you will also gain access to many additional benefits within Hays Workspace, such retailer discounts with Tesco, Sainsburys, Nike, ASOS and many more.

You will also gain free access to Hays My Learning platform for free training courses covering multi business sectors.
What you need to do now

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