Senior Building Services Manager (Lifts & Security)
Salary: £66,000-£72,000
Type: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)
Location: Ealing office base – Hybrid working and flexible across London
Are you ready to make a real difference with your expertise? As a Senior Building Services Manager your skills will be vital for our business in ensuring the safe operation and statutory compliance of our Passenger lifts and door access equipment within our homes and buildings, providing safe, quality homes for individuals and families in need, directly shaping stronger communities.
About Us
At A2Dominion, we are on a mission: “Building Stronger Foundations Together.” We’re driving transformative change, with a clear focus on business improvement to provide homes our customers love, an improved repairs service, and a commitment to customer service excellence.
We are a leading UK housing association, managing over 38,000 homes across London and southern England. We provide a variety of homes for social, affordable, and private rent, including specialist housing services.
Our aim is to offer high-quality, sustainable housing for our diverse customer base of over 70,000 residents, and every penny we earn is reinvested back into delivering more homes and better services.
As part of the G15 – a group of the largest housing associations in London – you will be joining forces with those working to house one in ten Londoners and tackling the housing crisis head-on.
About the Role
You will provide effective leadership of the Lifts and Security team as part of the Building Services department who are responsible for ensuring the safe operation and statutory compliance of all M&E related equipment and customer safety.
Your team oversee the management of the Passenger & domestic lift contracts and access control equipment including door entry, vehicle gates, automated doors, CCTV and warden call within our residents’ homes and blocks across the A2D property portfolio.
You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements through effective contract management, accurate reporting, and robust asset data.
You will be tasked with improving contractor performance and have financial oversight of all contracts, ensuring budgets and targets are met through effective monitoring and control of expenditure.
You will lead on the procurement of new contracts where required, followed by effective contract management of those contractors to ensure that all contractual obligations are met and adhered to.
You will support the team to ensure we provide quality homes and places for our customers by exceeding service and regulatory expectations through delivery of the corporate strategies.
More about you
- You will hold a level 5/6 qualification in an M&E related discipline or be able to evidence an extensive M&E background.
- Significant M&E Contract & Project management experience and working with various forms of contracts and experience of managing programmes of work of more than £5m.
- Knowledge of the Building Regulations, compliance standards and able to read and understand technical specifications and drawings.
- Experience of providing effective customer focused services, in an M&E or related maintenance or repair setting.
- Housing experience is required.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Full UK driving license and access to a vehicle required.
Join us in making a tangible impact on housing in the UK, where your expertise contributes directly to improving lives and shaping thriving communities. We want to provide homes that people love to live in.
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working
- Investment in your learning and development
- In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.
- We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.
Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.
If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Resourcing Team to request: resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk
A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will:
- actively look to attract and recruit disabled people
- provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
- offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job
- be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job
- make reasonable adjustments as required
At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.
Meeting the role requirements
We recognise that some people will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our Resourcing Team to discuss your application further at resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk
A2Dominion is proud to be a family friendly employer
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.
Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.
