Estates Manager

Job Description

Ref: RQ1642809
Location: Central London
Hours: Monday to Friday 8am-4pm
Pay: £30.00ph paid weekly via umbrella
Duration: Ongoing Contract – Long Term
  
Duties

• Manage a dispersed team of caretakers, including mobile relief and agency caretakers, to ensure they provide a high-quality, safe, and responsive service on our estates, following Council policies and procedures. This includes (but not limited to) inducting and assessing new starters, supporting team training and development, conducting regular one-on-one supervision and team meetings, assessing health and wellbeing, ensuring strict compliance with health and safety, managing performance, conduct, and sickness absence. To assist as required in the measurement of caretaker workloads. Ensure appropriate staffing levels are always maintained and keep accurate staff management records
• Ensure all health and safety tasks, including fire safety inspections and fire risk assessment actions, are completed within target times and in accordance with procedures.  Update associated records on management systems and work closely with Corporate and Neighbourhood H&S colleagues.
• To ensure estates are maintained at the highest possible standards of cleanliness, fire and general safety, security, and appearance
• Leading a team of caretakers, responsible for all aspects of their line management
• Responsible for monitoring and taking corrective actions of services associated with estate management functions, such as waste and recycling, grounds/greenspace maintenance, communal repairs, and estate lighting.
• To work collaboratively, developing strong working relationships with other teams and partner agencies, such as refuse, repairs, new build and project teams, tenancy management, community safety, police etc.