Regional Facilities Manager

Reporting to our Group Estates Director your role will be to oversee and manage our Regional Facilities and Estates teams in the South East and take responsibility for the development, implementation, refinement, delivery and monitoring of the facilities and estates services together with associated documentation and systems. You'll act as a technical advisor for facilities and estates matters in the region and support the site based teams and contractors to ensure safe premises that are fit for children and young adults, staff and visitors Key to your role will be your ability to ascertain service requirements and maintain service delivery at the required standard throughout the region. Whilst the maintenance and development of our existing sites remains the core responsibility for your role; you will also play a key position in the construction/development/opening of new services opening in the region in conjunction with our Executive Principal and wider project teams You'll also be working with both Estates Director and Group Health and safety manager to develop systems, templates, processes and other needed quality functions in support of the establishing and monitoring the delivery of the department's function.

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:

• Experience of delivering reactive, planned and project services
• Experience in line management
• Good communication skills, negotiation skills, leadership
• Proven ability to work under pressure and respond to deadlines
• Ability to make sound judgements and prioritise multiple demands
• Excellent organisational skills
• Relevant qualifications in Building Studies/ similar
• NEBOSHH
• Ability travel (inc. overnight stays), drivers licence and access to a car
• our South East sites currently includes 3 sites in Surrey (including a new site), Reading, Cambridgeshire and a new site in Sussex
  
  We're the sixth-largest provider of SEN educational services in the country, supporting over 900 children and young people, and employing over 1,000 staff., The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer. This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:
• Life assurance
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Bike to work scheme
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.