Estates Operation Officer

Job Title: Estates Operations Officer

Location: London

Contract: 6 Months

Hours: 9-5

Rates: £22.79-27.25 per hour

Job Description

SRG are looking for an Estates Operation Manager for a leading university based in London. As part of this role, you will be providing a consistent level of Operations service to the Division of Biosciences, in line with agreed service standards. To ensure compliance with all Health and Safety and statutory compliance obligations, including compliance with the universities Health and Safety Policy.

The role will require facilitation of all in-house initiatives for Health and Safety such as fire evacuation, waste disposal and emergency planning. You will be a key liaison to Central Services, providing support for the achievement of shared objectives. You will work directly with service providers in the maintenance of laboratory equipment, ensuring that services provided reflect statutory and contractual obligations and Divisional requirements.

You will be a key liaison between central services and the department for estates projects including input into the design and specification of major and minor refurbishment projects and the facilitation of such works. Additionally, the role holder will have, or will gain, expertise in the operation of general laboratory equipment and will be required to provide an overall service from negotiation of prices with suppliers to the installation and infrastructure required for such installation.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Managing day-to-day problems relating to the Divisional Infrastructure & Safety (including managing equipment maintenance across the Division).
• Team lead for core facilities, working with the broader community of laboratory and research staff to ensure that core facilities are maintained to a high standard and dealing with any problems in a timely fashion.
• Planning, specifying and overseeing major and minor building and improvement projects (including purchase and installation of equipment).
• Issue of keys, passes, and maintaining building security.
• Working closely with Estates, deal with onsite with emergencies such as floods and power failures, liaising with team members as necessary to manage adequate resources and sustainability of workload.
• Assist with physically setting up and clearing down stages for delivery/ collection/ clearance and other manual handling of instruments and equipment within Divisional Buildings.
• Working with the team lead for Procurement and liaison with academic staff and suppliers regarding the purchase of new equipment, including managing infrastructure requirements and delivery arrangements.
• Ensure compliance with Divisional safety procedures such as radiation reports, GM modification reports, Fire Safety Inspections, annual access reviews.
• Line management of Operations Assistants, both administratively and technically.
• Work with colleagues to deliver staff and student Safety Inductions, ensuring they are carried out in a timely fashion prior to full building access being afforded.
• Contribute to team objectives such as the development and management of health and safety policies, procedures and objectives.
• Manage and support in the implementation of laboratory and other moves across the Division including manual handling.
• Provide out of hours call out cover for emergencies.
• Other duties as identified by line manager and discussed at 1:1 meetings.

Experience and Qualifications

• A comprehensive understanding of safety legislation internally and the broader community
• A first degree, ideally in life sciences or a related field, or relevant experience
• A basic theoretical knowledge and understanding of Life Sciences
• A formal qualification in Health and Safety
• A broad-based experience working in a medical or laboratory-based environment
• Conversant with a range of research techniques and equipment used in teaching and research in areas such as topographical anatomy, tissue and cell history, cell structure, developmental and molecular biology, zoology
• A flexible and proactive approach to work and be willing to provide an out of hours call service
• Excellent time management skills, able to quickly change priorities to deal with emergencies whilst balancing the rest of the workload, calling on the support of the rest of the team as appropriate
• Able to work both autonomously and as a member of a team, capable of innovative thinking and proactive support without the need for continuous line-manager supervision
• Experience, of successful management of projects, both large and small
• Experience of procuring scientific equipment
• Experience in contributing toward the design, specification and refit of laboratories and/or offices

Skills and abilities

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to liaise, network and interface sensitivity and in a timely way with all strata's of the University and Division as well as external contractors, suppliers' public services (police, fire service) and members of the public
• Ability to prioritise workload, handling daily 'short-term' problems and longer-term projects simultaneously
• Able and willing to undertake manual handling duties as required. Training will be provided.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.