Estates Manager – Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service

About the role:

Ensuring our staff have the right facilities to stay safe, support their wellbeing and ensure we can deliver the very best services to our communities is essential.
The Estates Manager is required to ensure our buildings meet the needs of a modern and high-performing emergency service. This means ensuring our current buildings are managed effectively and that we continue successful delivery of our Estates Development Programme supporting the delivery of new build and refurbishment projects.

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service (RBFRS) is a progressive and community- focused organisation that works as one team to deliver services to the people of Royal Berkshire. We have an engaged and dedicated team of some 700 diverse and talented individuals, an inclusive culture as well as a commitment to the training, development and wellbeing of our people.

Our estate consists of 17 buildings ranging from modern tri-service blue-light bases to aging fire stations and training facilities. We operate from these to ensure our staff can deliver response, prevention and fire safety services to the people of Royal Berkshire.

About you:

RBFRS is a high performing, diverse and inclusive employer and we require a high performing individual for the role of Estates Manager. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience in delivering against strategies and a proven track record of realising tangible benefits and improvements.

The key focus of this role (Key Responsibilities and Deliverables) is:

• Leading and managing the Royal Berkshire Fire & Rescue Service (RBFRS) Estates Function which includes Facilities Management and Property Capital Projects. This post is central to developing the estate to ensure fit for purpose workplaces for a modern and forward-thinking Fire and Rescue Service.
• Leading and overseeing the delivery of Capital Projects as described in the Fire Authority’s Strategic Asset Investment Framework (SAIF) and ensuring the maintenance, compliance, and development of the wider estate.
• Identify, develop and create appropriate policy, procedures and processes with regards to the management of the RBFRS Estate.
• Report to, and when required to do so, deputise for the Head of Assets in matters relating to the estate
• Work collaboratively across RBFRS and, where applicable, with external agencies and organisations with regards to the estates and facilities management.

Key role requirements (knowledge, skills and experience):

• (Formal degree qualification (Level 6 or above) in a property, construction, facilities related profession or, attained a NVQ Level 5 qualification, or equivalent with recent relevant experience in a property, construction, facilities related profession.
• Effective Management of significant budgets demonstrating actions to deliver improved value.
• Experience of delivering property related projects/programmes successfully.