Assistant Director of Estates (Operations)

Lead an estate the size of a small town. What does it take to keep a 250-hectare campus, 275 buildings, 350,000m of estate and around 6,700 student bedrooms safe, resilient and running every day? And at the same time, improve how those services work, develop the people delivering them and help shape a more sustainable future for the estate? Lancaster University is looking for its next Assistant Director of Estates (Operations). This is one of the most significant operational estates leadership roles within the University, reporting directly to the Director of Estates, Facilities and Commercial Services and joining the senior leadership of a Facilities Division of around 500 people. It is a role with real breadth. You will lead the operational delivery of engineering, maintenance, hard FM, utilities, energy, statutory compliance, estate safety and grounds maintenance across a large and exceptionally diverse campus. But this appointment is about more than keeping services running. Lancaster is looking for someone who can look at how its estate operates today and help shape how it should operate tomorrow - strengthening resilience, improving service quality, challenging processes where they can be better, developing its teams and ensuring the University continues to get the best possible performance and value from its estate. An estate with sustainability built into its future There is another dimension to this role that makes it particularly interesting. Lancaster has made ..... full job details .....