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Regional Facilities Manager

Regional Facilities Manager

The Aurora Group

Gloucestershire

  • £42,000 - £45,000 per year
  • New
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
10 January 2025

Job overview

Regional Facilities Manager

Location: Regional – remote/home base with regular travel across the South West*

Salary: £42,000-45,000 dependent upon experience

Hours: Full- time (40hrs per week)

 

The Aurora Group 

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. 

We’re currently seeking a Regional Facilities Manager for our South West region.

 

Key Responsibilities: 

Reporting to our Group Estates Director your role will be to oversee and manage our Regional Facilities and Estates teams in the South West 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.

 

Experience

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 West sites currently include sites around Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Bristol, Minehead, Cranborne

 

Benefits and Additional Information

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.


Apply/Enquiries:

If you are interested in this role then please apply on-line, or for more information please contact liz.hudson@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

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. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search. 

About The Aurora Group

  • The Aurora Group
  • Unit 13, Twigworth Court, Business Centre, Tewkesbury Road, Gloucester
  • Gloucestershire
  • GL2 9PG
  • United Kingdom
+44 20 3617 0170

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About Us Nurturing positive outcomes through education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.

At The Aurora Group, we believe in giving people the opportunities they need to lead fulfilling, independent lives.

Established in 2015, we are now the UK’s fifth largest provider of education, care and support services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

Across our network of pioneering schools, colleges and residential homes, our dedicated and experienced staff work in collaboration with specialist teams of professionals to enable every young person to explore and develop their own unique talents, skills and abilities.

The Aurora Group is part of an inspiring B-Corp movement which is fast gaining traction in the UK by placing gold-standard social and ethical values at the heart of all it does.

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