JOB DESCRIPTION

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with strong leadership and collaboration skills who is committed to excellent service delivery and customer service.
The role holder is accountable to the DBS Estates Assistant Head, and is responsible for the effective delivery of DBS Estates, Infrastructure, Physical Security and Safety, Health & Environmental Protection functions in the North region. They are also responsible for the centralised DBS Health, Safety and Environmental Protection (HS&EP) team and outputs, maintaining and delivering associated policy driven management systems, assurance, and reporting activities for DBS. They will achieve this through leadership of Estates and HS&EP teams consisting of 7 staff based across 2 DBS locations; DBS Norcross, and DBS Glasgow workspace in Kentigern House building. The successful candidate will have knowledge and experience in some or all of the role responsibilities, and confidence in communicating effectively with stakeholders at all levels both internally and externally.
Although the role’s duty station is DBS Norcross, Blackpool, the holder will be required to travel on a demand basis. The expectation is that the role holder will spend a minimum of 60% of their working time based at DBS Norcross however higher attendance will be required during the initial learning period. Details of the arrangements can be discussed further at interview stage.

THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE MUST BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS AGAINST THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:

• Excellent leadership skills with an ability to set clear direction, that motivates and empowers others to work towards a common goal.
• Experience in making effective decisions and recommendations using evidence-based approaches and knowledge to provide accurate, expert and professional advice to a variety of stakeholders including seniors.
• Experience of stakeholder management with evidence of building credible and respected relationships at a variety of levels. You must also demonstrate your effective communication and influencing skills with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Evidence of operating in an environment that attracts significant stakeholder interest, a high customer focus and an ability to successfully collaborate at all levels internal and external to the Estates team.
• Experience in briefing, writing and reporting to senior leadership.
• Desirable (but not essential) HS&EP qualification(s):
• NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety
• IOSH Managing Safely
• The successful candidate will be expected to achieve the stated NEBOSH and IOSH qualifications within 18 months from their start date.

EXPERIENCE:

• Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience.
• Personal Statement. In no more than 750 words, please detail your experience of the following:
  Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the job description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlines in the job advert
  At interview you will be assessed against the following:

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

THE ROLE HOLDER ESTATES RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Tactical & Operational planning for the DBS Estates in the North, including BAU and organisational change.
• Working collaboratively with Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and Industry Partners to deliver efficient and effective hard and soft facilities management services across the DBS built Estate.
• Support the operational requirements for the Estates team by ensuring the scrutiny of all requirements ensuring value for money and within control totals. Acting as focal point with delegated authority for Estates procurements through the Contracting, Purchasing and Finance (CP&F) system.
• Site Business Continuity Plan ownership and active participation in incidents / exercises as a key stakeholder.
• Senior Estates lead and DBS Head of Establishment support at DBS Norcross site, providing managed Estates and FM services to support operational capability.
• Line Management responsibility for DBS Estates Projects role, delivering function focused projects for operational change, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure the delivery and continuous improvement of all DBS Estate processes including flexible resourcing across sites to ensure services excellence and to support operational capability.
• All Statutory, mandatory, and other assurance reporting relating to Estates functions in the North region including HS&EP, and Physical Security.
• Physical Security, ensuring the Estate and supporting contracts operate within the appropriate frameworks set out in Defence policy.
• Working collaboratively with DBS FCS Estates Regional Manager (South) and the Estates senior leadership team to support coherence across national operations.