Head of Facilities role available Recruitment Agency Reference: J81803 A position has arisen for a permanent Head of Facilities placed within a highly reputable organisation situated in Oxfordshire. This role takes responsibility for overseeing both service provisions across buildings and facilities, including maintenance, repairs and soft services, and the department’s major project portfolio. The salary is around £81,000 per annum. Your duties will include: Overseeing the team of building managers to ensure effective and responsive management of all hard and soft facilities Working with the Estates Services to ensure they are able to deliver their responsibilities for the Estate including building infrastructure repairs and long term or end of life replacements Overseeing all aspects of equipment maintenance and repair including receiving and handling calls and complaints and ensuring best value and efficiency of repairs Negotiating and managing services contracts including for safe disposal of waste Managing and monitoring compliance for PAT, Pressure regulations, Fire Safety life safety, HVAC systems for hazardous environments Maintaining building consumables supply contracts Monitoring and managing TREND systems where installed throughout buildings, at optimum and correct function; alarm monitoring and rectification, escalating as necessary Overseeing the front of house, conferencing and soft services which are directly managed by the Deputy Facilities Manager Financial management including preparing and monitoring budgets, identifying and assessing options for cost efficiencies, negotiating supplier contracts with support of the Finance Team The successful candidate should have: You must be educated to degree level in a building service or engineering subject and/or an equivalent professional qualification Significant experience of successfully line managing technical managers and supervisors responsible for a wide range of hard and soft services in a similar environment Experience of delivering verbal and written reports to a wide variety of audiences If you are interested in this role or would like to find out more about similar roles please send your CV to Sabrina Garcha via email at sgarchavenngroup.com Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.