Estates & Facilities Technical Support Officer

**Estates & Facilities Technical Support Officer**:

Force
Cambridgeshire ConstabularyHIDDEN - Role Type
Police StaffContract Duration
PermanentContract Type
Full TimeDepartment
HeadquartersLocation
Headquarters, Huntingdon, CambsGrade
Scale 5Salary
£29,109Please note, if this is a paid role and the role is part time then the salary quoted will be pro rata based on the hours worked per annum.
Hours / Week
37Closing Date
16/06/2025, 23:55
Job Description

**About Cambridgeshire Constabulary**

The Constabulary’s buildings and estate play a critical role in delivering policing across the County. The Estates and Facilities team have an ambition to transform the Estate to be smaller, better, greener and are now looking for an Estates & Facilities Technical Support Officer to help in that delivery as part of the team.

The constabulary employs over 1750 officers, over 950 staff members and 20 PCSO's to cover a resident population of over 700,000. Our vision is to ‘Create a Safer Cambridgeshire’. We pride ourselves in delivering a service with integrity, sensitivity and respect.

It is important to us that we represent our local communities within Cambridgeshire.

We are seeking an Estates and Facilities Technical Support Officer to be part of the transformation of our Estate to meet future policing needs and continue our journey to deliver our Sustainability Strategy to achieve net zero by 2035.

Everyone at Cambridgeshire Constabulary takes personal responsibility to help create an inclusive workplace, where police officers and staff respect one another, feel valued for their differences and can be themselves. We are committed to providing workplace adjustments, wherever needed so everyone feels welcome and can flourish. This role will be key to continued delivery of these values.

By joining us you will receive a vast range of opportunities and benefits. Some of these include:

- Starting pay of £29,109 rising with service up to £31,296 p.a.
- 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Flexible working requests will be considered, including compressed hours and agile working but recognising that due to the nature of the role attendance is required frequently at sites.
- Annual leave allowance of 24 days rising to 30 days on service
- Generous Local Government Pension Scheme
- Opportunities for development and further study
- Blue Light Card offering attractive discounts
- A great Employee Assistance Programme providing free and confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- Access to Police sports and social clubs and facilities
- Long Service Awards
- Force Lottery - purchase shares and win prizes
- Cycle 2 Work scheme
- Employee Welfare Fund
- Access to Unison

**What does the Estates & Facilities Technical Support Officer** **role involve?**

Your role will be working within the Estates and Facilities team of 18 people. The role is key to ensuring the coordination and management of the day-to-day responsive repairs, maintenance and statutory compliance across the estate overseeing Site Officers and contractors and providing operational support by maintaining a safe and comfortable working environment. We have exciting new construction projects underway including a new Police Station for Cambridge which will continue the journey of transformation of the estate and the role will also need to balance this with the challenges of managing ageing buildings throughout Cambridgeshire. Every day is different, whatever your role in policing, so here’s an overview of your day-to-day responsibilities. The Estates & Facilities Technical Support Officer will:

- Act as main point of contact within Estate for reports of faults and repairs, prioritise works and ensure urgent and emergency works are followed through to a conclusion.
- Carry out regular reviews of the Estates Repairs Helpdesk to ensure that works sent to the helpdesk are allocated to the relevant site officer with the appropriate priority assessment.
- Develop and prepare trend reports to forecast demand and assist in budgeting..
- Highlight and challenge any areas of discrepancy with the Estates Budget and regularly liaise with the Team to reconcile budget positions, codes etc.
- Develop and prepare reports for compliance with Health and Safety requirements and other legislative standards.
- Provide guidance and technical advice to the site officer team as well as managerial and welfare
- To carry out regular site visits to all sites as appropriate to check on and ensure sign off of quality of works undertaken by both Site Officer team and Contractors
- Assist with the operation and maintenance of the building management systems (BMS) which cover all estates buildings force wide.
- Overseeing the obtaining, reviewing, and monitoring of Risk Assessments and Method Statements for external contractors and maintain Control of Contractors files on all sites in line with Force policy (including signing in procedure and issue of work permits etc).

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