Head of Building Services

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom London City Airport Full time

The Head of Building Services will provide technical leadership, management and assurance to the Building Services function, ensuring all statutory obligations are met. Assisting the Director to deliver the Airports strategies and objectives on CAPEX/OPEX budgets.

Working closely with members of the Building Services Management Team, and providing Line Management to members of both the FM Shift Engineering and Handyperson teams, the Head of Building Services will provide leadership, management and guidance for all technical matters associated with the Building Services department, including planned maintenance, small/medium sized CAPEX projects and asset lifecycle strategies that are the responsibility of Building Services.
- Lead and deliver the Heath and Safety strategy for the department, ensuring that as a value it is at the heart of what our teams do.
- Deliver technical and operational facilities management in relation to site-wide assets and infrastructure managed and maintained by the Building Services department.
- Lead and Develop all Engineers and Handy person to ensure they are clear in roles and responsibilities. Conduct annual appraisals for all team members
- Provide technical expertise and guidance in relation to the delivery and integration of new assets and infrastructure, ensuring that planned deliverables are ready for handover to operational use.
- Develop and maintain a suite of documentation for all engineering tasks, to include, but not limited to, Safe Systems of Work and Risk Assessments. Ensure all control systems are in place to meet and exceed statutory obligations.
- Ensure all technical processes are developed, effectively communicated and implemented.
- Work alongside the Building Services Management team to ensure that all staff are appropriately trained and competent to undertake assigned tasks. Identify training needs and opportunities for engineering staff in accordance with requirements.
- Conduct regular technical inspections and audits of facilities and assets, record findings and identify opportunities for continuous improvement across the building services teams.
- Undertake the review and approval of Work Authorisation Permits on behalf of the engineering function, identifying potential impacts to Building Services assets - where potential impact is identified, liaise with the Building Services Management Team to identify appropriate mitigations.
- Support the Building Services Management Team on all facilities management and engineering matters, including asset replacement and departmental strategy.
- Offer guidance, advice, coaching and direct support, where required to deliver best practice, training, assessment and recognition/reward.
- Maintain effective relationships with site-wide stakeholders.
- Identify and implement effective change and transformation service improvements by guiding others and helping them adapt to improve overall business performance.
- Manage a variety of complex service risks and issues making autonomous decisions to find practical solutions.
- Facilitates understanding and encourages communication both within own team and more broadly. Advocate for the FM department.
- Participate in the out-of-hours escalation process and attend critical major out of hours maintenance activities or incidents where required.
- Able to embed a strategy that ensures the compliance of the department as identified by the compliance manager
- Collaborative mindset in working within the airports departments and can do approach.
- Ability to draft accurate and compelling business cases to support funding for FM related Capital replacement projects from allocated funding and CAPEX plans.
- Deputise for the Director of Building Services as required

**Qualifications**
- Substantial experience within an engineering discipline, knowledge of the aviation/airport sector would be advantageous
- Membership of a professional institution and/or management qualification
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of statutory obligations and compliance
- NEBOSH / IOSH certification would be desirable
- Experience in small and medium-sized project delivery and asset integration
- Excellent verbal, presentation and written communication skills

London City Airport is one of the largest private sector employment sites in the London Borough of Newham. We offer a wide range of interesting and challenging career opportunities for the local community.

With over 2,000 employees here, working either directly for London City Airport Limited or for one of our concession partners, airlines, or other business partners on site, the scope for career satisfaction and progression is huge.

London City Airport is an Inclusive Employer.
At London City Airport we respect and celebrate each other’s individual differences. We embrace all backgrounds and abilities of all team members and we work closely with our Inclusion Group A Voice for all to ensure we are an inclusive workplace.

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