Building Services Manager

3 weeks ago


Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham City Council Full time

Job start date: 1 June 2024

Hours per week: 36.5, all year round

Bordesley Green Girls School and Sixth Form

Bordesley Green Road

Nechells

Birmingham

B9 4TR

Telephone number:

Contact email:

Contract type: Permanent

We wish to appoint a reliable and flexible person to join our experienced site team. You should have great communication skills and be able to converse confidently with students, staff and parents. Excellent timekeeping and attendance are an essential requirement for this role.

The successful candidate will be a committed, reliable and self-motivated person, who is able to form positive relationships with a range of stakeholders. As the Building Services Manager you will work closely with the Site Manager and share responsibility for the security, safety, maintenance and cleanliness of the estate ensuring a welcoming and safe environment for our whole school/college community. This role will include co-ordination and management of external contractors and a requirement to undertake reactive repairs and maintenance across the campus.

Key Requirements:


• be hard-working and flexible and able to meet the physical demands detailed in the job description


• able to demonstrate the practical skills required to be able to undertake a range of general grounds maintenance, decorating, repairs and property maintenance issues


• the ability to communicate and work effectively as part of a wider team responsibility for key holding and responding to out of hours alarm call-outs (on occasion) is a requirement of the position therefore a flexible approach to work hours is needed

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

An applicant information pack and application form can be downloaded from our website

You can also download an applicant pack

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.

All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.

BCC is a Living Wage employer.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.



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