Vacancy: Technical Services Manager (Built Environment & Architecture) at London South Bank University

The University is currently looking for an outstanding technical services manager, to oversee the provision of support for the School of the Built Environment & Architecture and ensure this is delivered to the highest standards across its portfolio of architecture, civil & building services engineering, quantity & building surveying and property & construction management.

Key to this role will be the direct liaison with senior managers and academics to ensure that the schools delivery needs are understood and met, effectively leading their own team to support, inspire and develop technical excellence, and building positive collaborative relationships with colleagues throughout the LSBU group.

About you

You will have significant technical knowledge of working on, and effectively delivering projects in a higher education or professional environment.

You will have gained substantial expertise within your own discipline, and have the confidence to proactively lead and manage, or grow and develop technical teams as required.

You will have excellent organisational skills, and be able to confidently, and coherently convey complex information to a variety of audiences.

Exciting work you will do.

This is an exciting opportunity to have a positive impact in an environment that provides support for several disciplines within the School of the Built Environment and Architecture.

You will work closely alongside academic and professional services colleagues, to deliver the best outcomes for our vibrant mix of taught undergraduate, postgraduate, apprenticeship programmes, extracurricular activities, wide range of explorative and investigative research, and a growing portfolio of enterprise.

You will lead and inspire our team of experienced technicians and contribute to the ongoing programme of development in our excellent facilities to ensure that our student and research communities can operate at the highest levels.

The skills and experience you will need to be successful.

Your Bachelor’s degree, or professional experience will be in a closely aligned discipline to the Built Environment and Architecture

You will have significant experience of taking the lead in a senior technical role, delivering effectively on projects of varying complexity.

Details about the role

Applicants must complete the online application form, fully addressing the main activities and the selection criteria (A – F) from the job specification for this post.

Full instructions for the process can be found on the LSBU vacancy website.

Please follow these instructions carefully and in full to ensure your application is submitted.

You will receive an email confirmation that your application has been received.

Note – CVs should NOT be submitted and will not be accepted as an application.

A further email will be sent only to shortlisted candidates.  If you have not heard from the University within three weeks of the closing date, please assume your application has been unsuccessful.

Application Closing Date: Midnight on Friday 31st March 2023

Interviews Week Commencing: TBC

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Please Note: The Job Reference number for this post is REQ8614

Employment Visa: Under the UK Governments PSB scheme this role meets the criteria to be sponsored by LSBU for a Skilled Worker Route (SWR) application.

Please be advised that currently LSBU will only support the Certificate of Sponsorship for any employment visas and will not support the payment of the employment visa for the offered candidate and/or dependants.

Recruitment Process: The email account you use to apply will be used for recruitment communication.  Please ensure that you use an email account that you regularly monitor. 

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early, should we receive sufficient applications.