King's College London - Head of Engineering

King's College London - Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering Candidate Information Pack

“Im fully committed to ensuring my directorate delivers to this progressive and ambitious philosophy ensuring we meet the strategic aims of the university, and improving the experience of staff, students and our communities”. Nick O’Donnell MRICS MCIBSE IEng Director of Estates & Facilities King’s College London

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King’s College London Estates and Facilities Job Description & Person Specification Further Information & Application Process

KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

Since its foundation almost 200 years ago, King’s College London has been central to the establishment of London as one of the world’s foremost centres of academic excellence. Situated in the heart of what, by any measure, is one of the world’s most dynamic and international cities, King’s benefits from being shoulder-to-shoulder with

London’s great institutions. While King’s has a proud history, which has served the King’s family well for generations and made a profound contribution to modern life and society, King’s is neither captured nor defined only by its past. Indeed, King’s aspires to tackle global challenges and serve society in a way that is contemporary, forward-looking and unrestrained. King’s is: • one of the top 25 universities in the world (2016-17 QS international world rankings) • the fourth oldest university in England • research-led and based in the heart of London. King’s has over 27,600 students (including nearly 10,500 postgraduates) from some 150 countries and almost 6,800 employees. King’s provides world-class teaching and cutting-edge research: • In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings • Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*) • The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million. King’s has a distinguished reputation in: • the humanities • law • the sciences, including health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry • social sciences, including international affairs. King’s is in The Complete University Guide’s Top Ten for: • Business Management Studies • Classics & Ancient History • Dentistry • Education • Food Science • History • Law • Music King’s has influenced many of the advances that shape modern life, such as: • the discovery of the structure of DNA • research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar • being the largest centre for the education of healthcare professionals in Europe.

About the Directorate of Estates & Facilities

King’s Directorate of Estates & Facilities is a key enabler of the university’s Strategic Vision 2029 and we have created a strategy which demonstrates our intent and sets out how the Estates & Facilities team will support the ambition of the university’s strategic vision. Our philosophy has been developed using the Guiding Principles outlined in Vision 2029; we have worked with the teams across the other support

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functions, with our academic and research colleagues and our students so that we can ensure that the communities we serve are at the very heart of the directorate’s work. We know that everyone in King’s interacts with our physical assets and relies upon our service delivery therefore they need to: • be seamless • to work • be sustainable and safe • be enabling • support work and learning and; • enable growth As King’s continues to mature and grow the task of developing, maintaining, managing and driving value from our physical infrastructure will become more complex. The Estates & Facilities strategy holds together our vision and ensures we can measurably improve the learning and working experience of our student, staff and partners. Meeting our aims will not be without its challenges. Operating in central London means that King’s has some unique challenges ahead with an ambition to grow student numbers and the level of research we undertake. This means we will need to make wise choices about where we focus our effort and resources. We will need to be clear about how we prioritise activity to ensure our decisions can support the overall purpose of King’s. We have a finite amount of space and resource and it is our job to help King’s manage our assets well. King’s has five campuses in central London consisting of more than 100 buildings ranging in age from the 1780s to the current day. Many are listed and of great architectural significance. The campuses house a diversity of spaces, including teaching and learning environments, cutting edge research facilities, two chapels, cafes and restaurants, gyms and student residences. The Estates & Facilities team employs more than 800 people with a vast range of expertise and skills, operating and maintaining facilities and providing services to ensure King’s remains one of the world’s top universities. • Details of our Strategic Vision 2029 can be viewed at: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/strategy • Details about our philosophy can be viewed at: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/orgstructure/ps/ estates/ef-philosophy-booklet-current.pdf • Background to estates and facilities including an introduction from our Director of Estates, Nick O’Donnell can be viewed at: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/orgstructure/ps/estates/about-us

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Job Description

Post title

Head of Engineering Estates & Facilities Professional Services

Department/Division Faculty/Directorate

Grade Salary

ALC 6

£90,000 - £95,000 (inclusive of LW)

Responsible for Responsible to

Asset & infrastructure managers, technicians and support staff

Director of Facilities - Estates and Facilities

Role purpose The Vision of the Estates and Facilities Directorate is to provide world leading facilities and services to the world leading institution that King’s College London is. The Role of Head of Engineering will play a pivotal role in the directorate achieving this challenging goal. The Head of Engineering will be a key member of the Estates and Facilities Senior Management Team and will report directly to the Director of Facilities. You will oversee the functional and pastoral management of a multi-level team consisting of circa 120 directly employed engineers, technician and support staff, in addition to a portfolio of specialist engineering and maintenance service partners. The Head of Engineering will be accountable for the oversight and strategic management of a £10m- £15m per annum OPEX budget, in addition to being responsible for the creation, execution, and on-going management of a CAPEX Asset Improvement Pipeline for Lifecycle, Infrastructure, and Minor Works of circa £5m - £15m per annum. The Head of Engineering will be based on the Guy’ and St Tomas’ Campus (London Bridge, London) alongside the core Asset Management team leadership and support staff, however will have responsibility for satellite offices at all of the University’s 4 main Campus’ and many of the smaller remote sites across central London. How this role supports KCL • By leading on asset management and Infrastructure to meet the university’s academic objectives. • By co-ordination and management of technical building services across the large occupied estate. • By auditing, reviewing, reporting on, and regularising compliance delivery across the estate. • By leading the university engineering and infrastructure in a way which supports and promotes long term maintenance planning and delivery to ensure Value for Money, in particular, seeking opportunities to reduce total energy and utility costs, and carbon usage. • To improve and take ownership of all engineering and statuary requirements for licenced, regulated and specialist spaces across the College - eg Labs , BSU’s etc. • Provides technical leadership and strategic direction for all engineering and estates maintenance works undertaken.

How this role supports Professional Services By working together with the Director of Facilities to ensure that the university: • Plans asset and infrastructure replacement and maintenance needs against academic and research objectives, and aspirations. • Obtains the maximum value from its existing infrastructure investment in people, plant, and financial resources. • Drive down total cost of asset maintenance. • Drives up overall asset availability and reliability. • Supporting and ensuring that the university follows UK standards and best practice/innovation in its asset management. • Provides professional engineering and estates expertise to Site Directors, estates staff, other directors, senior management, other internal customers and partners. Oveview • The Head of Engineering is responsible for providing the direction, oversight, and coordination of all functions and activities of the Asset Management function, including Engineering, Plant Operations, Compliance, Operational Contract Management, Lifecycle Replacement and Minor Works. • The Head of Engineering will assume overall responsibility for the safe and efficient functioning, maintenance and operation of all buildings, equipment, machinery, systems, and services. • The Head of Engineering will direct, plan, coordinate, and is administratively and professionally responsible for the proper installation, operation and maintenance of all building assets, systems and services, to ensure the provision of uninterrupted light, heat, cooling, power, water, life safety and monitoring systems and all other systems and services required to support the university’s core business. • Will work closely with the development and project teams on engineering briefs and standards for development projects. • Is responsible for the performance management of external contracts relating to engineering and estates functions, and building and developing an effective supply chain of responsive and innovative suppliers who are able to provide cost effective specialist services. • Is responsible for the development of agreed technical standards that will be applied across the estate, to ensure that all staff and contractors know what is required of them in terms of maintenance, and design & construction contractors understand what has to be delivered in a project especially to facilitate ongoing maintenance. • Provides leadership, direction and senior professional advice in the event of any major incidents that have an engineering and/or estates dimension to the cause and/ or resolution, even to the extent of taking control should the impact be of a serious nature, and if requested. Role profile The Head of Engineering has oversight of, and is accountable for: • Creation of, and operating to, both OPEX and work package CAPEX budgets working closely with the Capital projects teams. • Functional and Pastoral management of all staff within the Asset Management team. • Performance and development of all staff within the Asset Management team. • Creation and execution of short, medium and long term tactical and strategic asset and infrastructure investment plans. • Ongoing economic and efficient management and operation of the university’s building assets, infrastructure, systems, and services.

• Development and delivery of a comprehensive, efficient, effective, and compliant asset management plan (AMP) and the associated planned, preventative and remedial maintenance programs. • Development and delivery of energy management, and asset energy efficiency programmes to reduce the university’s impact on the environment. • Statutory and regulatory compliance of all of the university’s building assets, infrastructure, systems and services including the administration of all associated processes, procedures, permits, and records. • Asset and services Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery processes, procedures, and preparedness. • Operational management of all specialist maintenance and engineering service partners. • Accuracy and comprehensiveness of asset and asset condition >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14

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