Group Facilities Officer

**Group Facilities Officer**

**Hours; Full time (37hrs per week, all year round),**

**Duration; Permanent**

**Salary; £27,128 per annum**

**Location; Cross-college roles - Rotherham, Dearne Valley and Worksop**

**About the Role**

With the support of the Head of Estates and Facilities the role of Facilities Officer will see you at the front of the day to day co-ordination and operation of busy Facilities teams across the RNN Group.

The role requires a forward thinking and positive approach, ensuring that the campus’ and buildings are a safe and welcoming environment for students, staff and visitors.You will have a real impact upon the look and feel of the campus and buildings ensuringhigh quality surroundings and learning environments that our students deserve.

Key duties of this role will include;
- Assisting in the management of the wider Estates team to open and close College buildings, provide a secure and safe environment, instruct and coordinate general maintenance, porterage, relocations and small project works liaising with inhouseuser groups and external contractors.
- Ensure the campus buildings and sites are legislatively compliant, safe and are kept maintained, in good order and repair, proactively identifying areas that require minor or major works. Adopting a team approach.
- Lead on one of the Estates & Facilities core responsibilities, acting as a project lead, providing detailed reviews to the wider team and management chains.

**You will**

**You will have proven experience within the Facilities Management sector or within a similar role or environment. You should also have experience, or a good knowledge of leading/supervising a successful team.**

**In this role you will be able to confidently use Group software packages and have an ability to learn how to use other software quickly therefore excellent IT skills are essential.**

**You will hold a Level 2 literacy and numeracy (or above) and have a** Facilities Management qualification. Ideally you will also have qualifications, and experience in First Aid at Work and IOSH / Health and Safety.

Department Info

As a Facilities Officer you will lead on one of the team responsibilities which will be; Facilities Staffing, Training & Development and Contracts, Group Estate and Facilities compliance or Contracting, procurement, budgeting.

As part of the team, you will:

- Ensure health and safety compliance and statutory obligations are met
- Manage staffing levels, rota’s and payroll enquiries as required to ensure appropriate staffing levels maintaining smooth operational practices.
- Lead and manage the Caretaking, Grounds, Security and Cleaning teams to ensure the Campus’, and buildings are safe, clean, tidy and prepared to be open and closed.
- Co-ordinate planned and reactive maintenance liaising with appointed contractors and external parties.
- Build relationships, working closely with the Campus managers and colleagues to ensure the campuses and facilities meet customer needs

Our excellent benefits and rewards package:

- Access to local government pension
- Up to 44 days annual leave per year
- Access to our gyms, restaurants and salons
- Staff health & wellbeing and benefits schemes including inhouse Occupational Health service
- Full, part time and flexible working hours available in many roles
- Additional flexible working opportunities for some roles
- Parking available at all of our sites
- Fantastic career development opportunities including funding for teacher training, apprenticeships and various other industry recognised qualifications

**What is the RNN Group?**

RNN Group’s main goal is to be an ‘outstanding’ education and training provider and this is at the heart of everything that we do. To help us achieve this we are looking to recruit highly motivated, innovative and dynamic individuals to join our existingteams. To be a part of the team at RNN Group we will expect you to be committed to our values too;
- We are Inclusive,
- We have Integrity,
- We Deliver,
- We are One Team.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, vulnerable adults and young people. All new employees will be required undertake a DBS check.