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SalaryHours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Pay: 21.67 phr
Location: Primarily Maidstone but will be required to work at other locations.
Role:
- This is a key position, supporting the Associate Director of Capital Development in the provision of a professional estates design, technical advice, and engineering/construction management service to the Trust. This includes the direct management and supervision of Capital schemes for all building and engineering matters associated with the Trust. All such schemes are implemented to agreed costs, timescales, and the required quality standards to provide a modern, efficient, and sustainable estates portfolio which is compliant with all estates and facilities related regulations and to enable the ongoing and effective delivery of patient care.
- The post holder will directly manage the provision of Building Improvement schemes through construction and engineering contractors and external specialist consultants and surveyors, to meet the requirements of the Estates and Service strategies and the associated Capital and major revenue projects.
- Responsibility for the design, detailed specification, procurement, planning, implementation and project management, and contract administration of all Capital and major revenue projects, in addition to any compliance and associated remedial works arising from in house and specialist audits.
- To deputise for the Associate Director of Capital Development when required to do so in terms of representation at various meetings and reporting into Trust groups.
- Highly developed verbal and written communication and relationship skills: In relation to the provision and receiving of highly complex operational and technical information in dynamic situations such as multidiscipline service project/design groups, multiple strands of remedial work required from audits and inspections from a range of specialists, also in the form of providing complex advice or instruction to groups.
- Ability to communicate multi-stranded project, design, financial, contractual, and technical information, presenting technical scheme proposals to Trust groups, senior managers, contractors, and Estates staff in a clear and concise manner and in such a way that barriers to communication and understanding are effectively overcome.
- Planning, organising and project managing multi stranded works projects, programmes, and initiatives, ongoing and interrelated. Producing accurate project plans and programmes which reflect and consider technical issues and user's operational requirements and the needs of various compliance groups.
- High level of skill required in the use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and drawing measurement tools.
- High level of skill required in relation to the preparation of technical/detailed drawings/diagrams and schematics.
- High level of judgement and interpretation skills required in relation to the processing of complex facts relating to the built environment and when analysing a range of options to suit the needs of the statutory compliance remedial works databases and programmes.
- High Level of numeracy and IT literacy skill required to interpret/present data and to integrate and combine information in the form of data entry, word processing, typing, financial data and inputting documents compiled by others into specifications.
- Highly developed physical skills in relation to the need for accuracy and manipulation of fine tools, such as measuring and surveying devices and equipment for use inside buildings and on externally.
- High level of skill and knowledge required when using non-standard computer software to create formulated statistical and financial reports, and specifications/contract documents.
This position is subject to an enhanced DBS.
If this sounds like you, please call our Maidstone office for a more in-depth conversation about the role and full requirements.
