Dstl
Built Estate Manager
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Dstl Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 0JQ or Dstl Portsdown West, Fareham, Hampshire, PO17 6AD
At Dstl, our vision is to have a modern way of working efficiently, accommodating and enabling our people to create, collaborate and deliver. To do this successfully in this job will require attendance at a Dstl location; Government Departments including wider MoD or Delivery and Mission Partner’s premises for 60% of your working time. Where business needs allow, and with the agreement of your line manager, there may be the option for a combination of workplace and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement.
Job Summary
The Built Estate Manager is responsible for ensuring a safe, secure and compliant estate is provisioned to deliver Dstl’s vision, ensuring that the service providers carry out tasks in a safe, compliant and efficient manner.
Dstl recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion as people from diverse backgrounds bring fresh ideas. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment in which each employee fulfils their potential and maximises their contribution.
Job Description
In this role you will:
- Proactively engage with internal and external customers and stakeholders
- Provide a focal point and support for the Senior Establishment Incident Manager (SEIM) including Out of Hours support, in Incident Management and support the implementation of emergency plans
- Work with Estates customers to facilitate and shape current and future requirements, ensuring early engagement with Estates
- Work closely with the IT Provider to ensure collaborative delivery of services for the site by the Ops Division
- Inform and support Site Risk Assessment
- Contribute to the maintenance of the Defence Critical National Infrastructure (DCNI)
As a Dstl Leader You Will:
- Confidently lead, with the ability to adapt quickly to changing direction and priorities
- Positively, motivating, inspiring, encouraging and influencing others through effective communication and engagement
- Maintain and Manage strong, effective relationships with peers, role modelling Enterprise Leadership to deliver the One Dstl vision ensuring collaboration on delivery outcomes and strategic direction
- Create a positive working environment, aligned with Dstl Principles and Civil Service Behaviours, which supports diversity and inclusion, and enables people to excel
- Consistently demonstrate and role model Dstl’s leadership behaviours to ensure our Dstl culture is maintained at all levels
- Foster an inclusive working environment where open communication and psychological safety are prioritised to encourage constructive feedback and continuous improvement
- Ensure that all team members understand and meet their defined accountabilities, regularly reviewing performance and providing necessary support and training to uphold Dstl’s standards, culture and values which aligns with the Civil Service Code and values
- Actively endorse the Civil Service Line Management Standards to improve Line Management skills across the organisation.
Safety
Accountable For Ensuring Safe And Secure Work:
- Must appreciate and be responsible for the health and safety of self and others; both understand and meet defined accountabilities as written in Dstl policy
- Must demonstrate the expected HS (& EP) behaviours as defined by the Civil Service and Dstl and lead by example
- Must ensure understanding and maintenance of appropriate training, experience and knowledge (i.e. competent / SQEP) for self and direct reports
- Develop a working environment that is supportive of and champions the Dstl approach to security, health, wellbeing, safety and environmental (HSEP) management
- Be aware of the downstream impact of their actions and the actions of their direct reports on those outside of their immediate control
- Implement Dstl's policies and ensure compliance with the Management System
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Person specification
Qualifications
- Formal Health and Safety qualification e.g. NEBOSH or relevant experience
Technical Skills
- Understanding the business benefits of diversity and equality and how to create an inclusive working environment
- Understanding the complexities of Estates or Facility Management
- Effective technical leadership and supervision of people and tasks
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including delivery of advice, guidance and challenge
Experience
- Minimum of seven years progressive responsibility with quantifiable results in management of estates or facilities
- Experience of building staff engagement and creating an environment which nurtures excellence
- Working across multiple locations
- Management and delivery of work of self and others
- Undertaking risk analysis and response
- Managing hard and soft services
Important Information
Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be UK Nationals who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to undertake the projects we are involved in to protect us from security threats. For this reason, only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.
This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years. For some roles Developed Vetting will also be required, in this case you should have resided in the UK for the past 10 years.
Memberships
- Full membership of relevant professional body e.g. RICS / IWFM
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Leadership
Alongside your salary of £60,448, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory contributes £17,511 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
Benefits
Dstl’s full range of great benefits can be found in the information pack which includes:
- Financial: An excellent pension scheme starting from 26% employer contribution (find out more here). In Year Rewarding Achievement bonuses and thank you vouchers. Rental deposit scheme and cycle to work scheme. Option to join Vivup Benefits Payment scheme
- Flexible working: Options include alternative working patterns such as; compressed hours, job shares and annualised hours (agreed number of hours per annum paid monthly i.e. working term-time only).
- Working hours: Flexibility around your working day (e.g. start time, finish time). Ability to bank hours in a 12 month reference period including the ability to accrue and use 3 days per calendar month.
- Annual leave: 25 days pro rata (rising to 30 after 5 years) plus 8 public holidays with the ability to buy/sell 5 additional days per annum.
- Family: Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks with full pay, an additional 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid
- Learning and Development: Dstl encourages and supports charterships, accreditations and provides employees access to fully funded apprenticeships up to level 7 (Masters Degree). Dstl will pay for 2 memberships with relevant bodies/institutions. Employees also have access to Civil Service Learning.
- Facilities: Onsite parking, EV Charging points, restaurants, cafés and gyms.
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Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
We want you to have your best chance of success in our recruitment process, so If at any stage of the application process you would like help or assistance please contact the Dstl Recruitment Team dstlrecruitment@dstl.gov.uk and we will do all we can to support you.
Sifting will take place week commencing the 12th October with interviews commencing the week beginning 26th October onwards.
Your interview will consist of behavioural & technical interview.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
Open to UK nationals only.
This job is not open to candidates who hold a dual nationality.
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan
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