Job Role: Band 8a Head of Estates
On behalf of our client, MPA Recruitment are recruiting Band 8a Head of Estates for their large public sector client in the greater Belfast area.
Location – Knockbracken
Hours of Work – 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)

Salary - £27.49 per hr

• Develop and implement an Estates Strategy that will deliver an estate that is ‘fit for purpose’, in line with operational needs.
• Ensure compliance with the relevant statutory obligations including health and safety and environmental legislation, in the delivery of facilities and asset management.
• Monitor the operation of the Estates function ensuring the provision of appropriate capital projects, major and minor works, reactive and planned maintenance programmes in a cost effective, structured and timely fashion.
• Ensure compliance with financial and procurement rules and good governance in the facilities budget and management of contractors.
• Develop and manage contracts to achieve high quality, cost effective and value-added services.
• Work in conjunction with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of Estates services.
• Develop and implement relevant strategies including ensuring regulatory compliance, managing risk and value for money; and the production of an annual property asset management plan for DoH.
• Ensure safe, secure and suitable working environments in buildings which are legislatively compliant.
• Enable NIAS to deliver its statutory and regulatory requirements including the delivery of a planned maintenance programme annually that addresses the issues in NIAS’ estate.
• Ensure appropriate contract and framework management within Facilities, Asset Management and Capital Build to deliver cost effective, high quality and value-added services which improve the estate.
• Ensure utilities conservation, maximum energy efficiency for the future, and the establishment and implementation of an environmental management system.

• Be a corporate member of an engineering institute / institution relevant to engineering services in building together with registration as a chartered engineer with the Engineering Council or equivalent.
• Corporate membership of one of the following would be particularly appropriate:
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• The Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Managemen