Fixed Asset Integrity Manager

Estates and Corporate Health Safety & Environmental Protection Group (Estates) sits within Operations Division, providing the platform and capability to enable the delivery of high impact science and technology (S&T), maintaining the legacy, delivering the now and planning for the future to ensure Dstl can continue to deliver Defence and Security S&T.

The Fixed Asset Integrity Manager is responsible for ensuring that Dstl fixed assets such as containment systems, buildings, fire and gas detection systems perform their required function safely and efficiently whilst ensuring that the people, systems, processes and resources that deliver a safe, secure and compliant estate are in place and perform as required.

Dstl recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion as people from diverse backgrounds bring fresh ideas. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment in which each employee fulfils their potential and maximises their contribution.

We particularly welcome female and ethnic minority applicants and those from the LGBTQI community, as they are under-represented within Dstl at these levels.

In this role you will:

• Develop and own the Fixed Asset Integrity Management process and provide oversight to ensure that the people, systems, linked processes and resource to deliver integrity are in place.  This will include oversight and support to the wider estate and Facility managers to ensure a fit-for-purpose service provision, and a safe, secure and statutory compliant estate is maintained.
• Implement and manage processes to ensure a robust Dstl Fixed Asset Integrity Management (FAIM) capability
• Deliver a coherent, risk based assessment of assets and regulatory areas to instil confidence that Dstl assets are “safe to operate”
• Provide technical safety and loss prevention expertise, advice, guidance and challenge to stakeholders and service providers
• Provide technical safety advice and guidance to the Estates Assurance Manager to enable development and delivery of the Assurance Plan
• Ensure major hazards and integrity threats are identified, assessed, evaluated and managed in compliance with statutory provision, MOD and corporate requirements

Full job description can be found at the bottom of the page

We are looking for someone who has:

• Minimum of five years progressive responsibility with quantifiable results in integrity of fixed assets
• Excellent stakeholder relationship building skills
• Experience of building staff engagement and creating an environment which nurtures excellence
• Robust skills in Microsoft Office software
• Proven track record of communicating and owning difficult messages
• A proven track record of delivering at pace, alone or through others
• Ability to prioritise workload in the face of conflicting demands and flexible in the response to changing situations
• A passion for excellence

Essential qualifications:

Achievement of or working towards degree level in a relevant discipline, such as chemical engineering,  process safety engineering or reliability engineering

·         Higher National Diploma in Building services or similar

·         Achievement of or working towards formal Health and safety management qualification e.g. NEBOSH

Leadership

As a leader in Defence you will help shape, role model and bring to life the ‘One Defence’ mindset that will enable us to deliver our vision and strategic objectives. Your leadership style must be inspiring, confident and empowering. Working at every level of our organisation to break down silos, unite teams and create a culture that is trusting, collaborative, innovative, diverse and inclusive. Enabling us to deliver with pace and agility through the skills, commitment and empowerment of our employees and military colleagues.

Important Information

Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be UK Nationals who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to undertake the projects we are involved in to protect us from security threats. For this reason, only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.

This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years. For some roles Developed Vetting will also be required, in this case you should have resided in the UK for the past 10 years.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Changing and Improving

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Leadership

Benefits 

Dstl’s full range of great benefits can be found in the information pack which includes:

• Financial: An excellent pension scheme starting from 26% employer contribution (find out more here). In Year Rewarding Achievement bonuses and thank you vouchers. Rental deposit scheme and cycle to work scheme.

• Flexible working: Options include alternative working patterns such as; compressed hours (e.g. working a 4 day week/ 9 day fortnight), job shares and annualised hours (agreed number of hours per annum paid monthly i.e. working term-time only).

• Working hours: Flexibility around your working day (e.g. start time, finish time). Ability to bank hours in a 12 month reference period including the ability to accrue and use 3 days per calendar month.

• Where you work: Depending on your role, blended working may be available including remote working to suit you and your team. This can be discussed at interview.

• Annual leave: 25 days pro rata (rising to 30 after 5 years) plus 8 public holidays with the ability to buy/sell 5 additional days per annum.

• Family: Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks with full pay, an additional 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid

• Learning and Development: Dstl encourages and supports charterships, accreditations and provides employees access to fully funded apprenticeships up to level 7 (Masters Degree). Dstl will pay for 2 memberships with relevant bodies/institutions. Employees also have access to Civil Service Learning.

• Facilities: Onsite parking, EV Charging points, restaurants, cafés and gyms.

This job is not open to candidates who hold a dual nationality.

Job contact :

• Name : Dstl HR Recruitment Team
• Email : dstlrecruitment@stl.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : dstlrecruitment@dstl.gov.uk