Head of Facilities

HCUC (Harrow College & Uxbridge College) is a thriving Further Education College in West London, with four campuses at Uxbridge, Hayes, Harrow Weald and Harrow-on-the-Hill.  

Based primarily at our Uxbridge Campus, you would be responsible for the College’s property and assets, in addition to all service contracts, security services and health and safety.   You would also be responsible for maintaining ISO14001, environmental standards and energy management.   Reporting to the Executive Director for Corporate Services, you will line manage a team of Estates and Security staff and lead on developing the College’s Estates Strategy, to ensure a clean, safe and legally compliant working environment for all our students and staff.

You will be IOSH qualified, with at least 8 years’ experience in Estates, Facilities or building services operations.  You will have experience of capital projects, resource and asset management, all aspects of health and safety including risk assessments and managing external suppliers/contractors.   A strong communicator, you will have the ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders and will have experience of leading/managing a team.  

We offer generous annual leave, LGPS (pension scheme), free car parking on site and a supportive and friendly working environment.

Further details:    Job Description   

Equal Opportunities

HCUC is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from all people, irrespective of disability, race, gender, age, sexual orientation, transsexual or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership, religion/faith or pregnancy and maternity leave.

Disclosure and Barring Service checks 

HCUC (Harrow & Uxbridge College) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and we expect all staff to share this commitment. To ensure that we meet our safeguarding commitments we will carry out all necessary pre-employment checks, including undertaking an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring check for all successful candidates.  

Where references are taken up by the College, it is our policy not to disclose references to candidates.

For further information about the role including job description and application form please visit the vacancies section of our website via the apply link.