Contract Manager - Mechanical

Royal Greenwich is a vibrant and diverse borough with a commitment to providing high quality services to our residents and ensuring everyone benefits from our ambitious regeneration plans. The Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills is responsible for leading on many high profile projects and we are seeking to fill a key post within the Property Maintenance team.

This role forms part of the Property Maintenance team who manage 350 commercial buildings across the whole borough and is specifically responsible for the Mechanical element of our Term contract.

We are looking for someone with an excellent track record as well as a desire to deliver high quality work across a truly unique and exciting London borough. 

The role will:

• As part of a 2 man Team, manage our Mechanical Term contractor including
  • Checking of work completed
  • Raising orders and disputes
  • Attending Monthly Meetings
  • Agreeing KPI deductions
  • Approving invoices for payment

Assist in the design and work brief for fabric work

• Produce estimates and carry out measurements for costing purposes.

The successful applicant will need to demonstrate:

• Experienced in Building mechanical Maintenance at a supervisory or management level.  This should include the following:
  • Commercial Gas Heating Systems
  • Air Conditioning
  • Air Handling Plant
  • Building Management Systems
  • Rain Water Harvesting Systems
• A working knowledge of building mechanical maintenance related Health & Safety, technical and legislative requirements and the skills to manage this effectively to ensure compliance
• Knowledge of building maintenance techniques in relation to commercial premises.
• Effective communication skills both verbal and written with the ability to write and present clear technical reports to technical and non-technical persons.
• Knowledge of and ability to use relevant computer based applications (e.g. Microsoft office package).
• Carry out site inspection preparatory to payment / approval of contractors’ work.
• Produce estimates and carry out measurements for costing purposes.

And as a Royal Greenwich employee, some of the benefits you can enjoy are:

• An essential car user – entitlement to free parking near the Woolwich Centre.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Season ticket loan scheme.
• The Local Government Pension Scheme which offers death in service benefits and ill health retirement provisions. Contribution rates start from 5.5% with the contribution rate based on salary. Details of these rates can be found by clicking here.
• Excellent pension scheme
• Generous Annual Leave Entitlement
• Flexible working arrangements
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers and Personal Computer Incentive Scheme
• Greenwich Card entitling you to discounts at local businesses.

If you enjoy taking responsibility for and managing your own workload and want to work for a busy, successful team, please apply now.

Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.

All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated

This opportunity has recently been advertised as an opportunity for current RBG employees (internal only advertising). Applications received during the internal advertising period have been considered and processed. If you were interviewed for this position via an application to this job advertisement during the internal advertising period, any further application will not be shortlisted.

Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application. If you have a disability and are unable to meet some of the job requirements specifically because of your disability, please address this in your application. If you meet all the other criteria, you will be shortlisted and we will explore jointly with you if there are ways in which the job can be changed to enable you to meet the requirements.