Facilities Manager

MacIntyre Academies Trust opened its first academy, in Headington, Oxford in September 2014.  Endeavour Academy is a new and exciting Academy School for children and young people with autism and associated severe Learning Difficulties aged from 9 to 19 years old.   

The Role

 Reporting to our Principal, you will have overall responsibility for maintaining a high standard of Health and Safety, maintenance, cleaning, security and ground maintenance across Endeavour Academy site, both internally in the school and house, and externally, including the school vehicles.  You will line manage a facilities team and work with the Principal to develop schedules of maintenance work to be carried out and agree budgets and negotiate preferred rates with contractors ensuring safety and high quality maintenance of all buildings and their contents.  

 About You 

You will ideally be undertaking a similar role with experience of facilities management either in the private and public sector to include demonstrative experience of building maintenance and repairs.  You will have the relevant knowledge of regulatory bodies relating to facilities and the associated health and safety to include writing Risk Assessments.  

You will be an effective communicator both written and verbal and in turn be a confident negotiator. We need someone who will have a commitment to ensuring that all work that is carried out is undertaken to a very high standard.  You will also need to be able to work on your own initiative, able to prioritise your workload effectively.  You need to be sensitive to the needs of children and young people with learning disabilities and have an attitude towards others based on respect, dignity and equality.   

Benefits

 In return, we can offer you a competitive salary, local government pension scheme, an Employee Assistance Programme to support your health and wellbeing and full induction, training and career opportunities.