Total 19 construction property job vacancies in chelmsford essex cm11qh

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Property Manager with 5 years of real estate experience to join a well-established real estate management company. This part-time role offers a salary range of £15 - £22 per hour for 3 -15 hours per week.

As a Property Manager, you will be managing all aspects of property operations, including leasing, maintenance coordination, and tenant relations.

You will be responsible for:

- Conducting property inspections to uphold safety and maintenance standards.

- Advertising and marketing available properties to attract prospective tenants.

- Screening and selecting tenants, including background checks and income verifications.

- Overseeing rent collection and resolving any issues related to delinquencies.

- Coordinating maintenance and repairs with contractors.

- Handling tenant queries and concerns efficiently.

What we are looking for:

- Previously worked as a Property Manager, Lettings Manager, Portfolio Manger, Block Manager, Estates Manageror in a similar role.

- At least 5 years of experience in real estate.

- Skilled in using property management software and Microsoft Office Suite.

- Exceptional administrative and organisational skills.

- Strong communication and interpersonal abilities.

- A proactive and detail-oriented approach to property management.

- Ability to manage multiple responsibilities effectively while delivering excellent service.

Apply now for this exceptional Property Manager opportunity to work with a dynamic team and further enhance your career.

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Legal Services Manager, Property Team

Permanent, Full Time

£70,543 to £82,992 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Anywhere worker

Closing Date: 4th December 2024

This role has a hybrid working arrangement. We will expect you to attend our Chelmsford offices approximately 2 - 3 days per week. There will also be a requirement to visit other sites throughout the operational area, as required.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a new leader for our Property Team. The team has a large volume of interesting and rewarding work including supporting the Council's £1.7 billion estate which covers approximately 350 buildings and around 1,500 sites ranging from residential care, waste, country parks, schools and corporate offices in addition to providing high quality legal advice to external clients.

This is a brilliant opportunity for the right person to continue to develop the team, to contribute to the growth of Essex and to work on complex and interesting projects such as major transport schemes.

Essex County Council (ECC) is a diverse and large organisation that strives for excellence and delivers an outstanding service for residents across Essex. The in-house legal service, ELS, prides itself on providing a comprehensive legal service to the Council - most of our work is done in-house. We pride ourselves on valuing the people who work for us and providing a supportive working environment, where people work hard to do their best for Essex. The work can be demanding, and we expect resilience but our senior leaders are committed to ensuring that ELS is a place where people want to stay.

This post is a strategic leader in the legal service focused on managing a team of legal professionals.

In addition, as part of the ELS leadership team, the role has a strong voice in the running of the service and plays a key role in maintaining our Lexcel accreditation.

We're looking for someone with excellent technical legal skills and relevant experience who can quickly pick things up and manage a team of specialists within the property area.

They will need to be able to operate effectively in a complex politically-led organisation. Their influencing skills will be critical in order to articulate options and risks when advising Senior Leaders and Councilors.

To read more about us please visit: Corporate Services

Accountabilities

· Lead, manage and motivate a team of lawyers, paralegals and caseworkers to provide exemplary legal advice to internal stakeholders within ECC and external customers.

· Accountable for the provision of high quality advice and interpretation to clients to underpin and inform decision making.

· Accountable for providing legal services to support different functions within the Council, in order to, protect and mitigate potential legal risks for ECC.

· Responsible for contributing to business development targets across the team.

· Develop and maximise opportunities to attract external legal work across the breadth of different sectors with whom ECC collaborates in support of ECC strategic aims and objectives to build new revenue streams.

· Accountable for ensuring professional conduct and governance across the Council to meet Corporate and Statutory responsibilities and requirements.

· Accountable for driving compliance with the Lexcel standard and preparing the service for renewal of its Lexcel accreditation.

· Work collaboratively with stakeholders and partners to ensure solutions are robust, providing direction and guidance to achieve positive outcomes.

· Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

The Experience You Will Bring

· Qualified solicitor or barrister or legal executive with full practising certificate and at least 5 years' post qualification experience.

· Expert knowledge and experience in property law, with a local government focus e.g. commercial property, residential conveyancing, academy conversions, major projects and complex property transactions, leases, licences, sales and disposals, option agreements and overage.

· Experience of working with senior personnel and Directors and other key stakeholders

· Knowledge and understanding of providing legal advice in a public sector setting

· Experience of leading a team of qualified professionals

· Persuasion and influencing skills

· Evidence of creativity in exploring business opportunities

Pay and Reward

You'll also have access to the MyReward, a unique platform for Essex County Council employees to take advantage of including:

- Healthcare and Dental Plans at corporate rates

- Discounts and benefits at many local and national outlets including supermarkets, shopping, restaurants, technology purchases and holidays

- Discounts across Essex County Council's businesses, including Country Park Membership, ACL and more

- Generous holiday and special leave allowances (including the option to purchase extra holiday)

- Local Government Pension Scheme.

- Life Assurance of three times annual salary

- Employee wellbeing and counselling

- Travel discounts & season ticket loans

- Learning and Development opportunities/coaching & mentoring

- Payment of professional fees for approved professions

- Eye care vouchers

- Lease car scheme (dependent on business needs).

You can read more here: https://workingforessex.com/working-here/pay-reward

Interviews expected be held in person at Seax House, Chelmsford, December 2024

Why Essex? Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton on the Naze. England's oldest city, Colchester, and two of its newest - Basildon and Harlow - are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We're committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We're also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

If you would like to be kept up to date on other relevant opportunities, blogs, news, events and industry related news at Essex County Council, please join The Essex Talent Community

If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email resourcing.team@essex.gov.uk

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Property and Facilities Officer

Fixed Term, Full Time

£41,290 to £48,577 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Anywhere worker

Closing Date: 6th August 2024

Please note this vacancy is available as a fixed term contract or secondment opportunity for up to 12 months.

The Role

The Essex County Council (ECC) Infrastructure Delivery & Facilities Management team is responsible for managing, maintaining and developing ECC's estate. Alongside the delivery of major highways, education and any other capital building projects, the team is also responsible for the day to day management and maintenance of the councils £1.7bn estate. This covers approximately 350 buildings from libraries to County Hall and around 1,500 sites including residential care, waste, country parks and schools. ECC's challenge is to enable a lean estate strategy to achieve best value, whilst supporting service delivery. Essex County Council has a partnership with MITIE, who are the delivery agent for all property and facilities related operational functions.

The Facilities Officer will be responsible for the delivery of services and processes that support both the core business of ECC, by ensuring the most suitable working environment for its employees and their activities, including the maintained school estate. The role covers a diverse field with a range of accountabilities that align with ECC's facilities management. This role will involve both strategic planning, tactical interaction and day-to-day operations, particularly in relation to buildings, premises and energy management.

There will be close liaison with Property Management in terms of recognition of freehold and leasehold premises and liabilities therewith.

The Opportunity

Roles at this level will be focused on delivering results in a specific functional area. They will hold expertise on the application of policy and improvement of service delivery. These roles have clear team budgets and targets set within the overall service requirements. The role is accountable for:

• Operational planning and performance review to maintain exceptional service delivery and ensures the political objectives and priorities of the council are met, whilst ensuring all relevant statute within the built environment is upheld.
• Working collaboratively within and across functions and thinking commercially to support the delivery of best possible outcomes for our customers on a financially sustainable basis through efficient practices.
• Maintaining and nurturing collaborative relationships with other teams in the function and external organisations that support the delivery of annual plans.
• Implementing changes and continually evaluating service to improve the area of work, while maintaining the highest levels of service quality are continually delivered.
• Managing complex issues and resources to meet the needs of customers and deliver the best possible outcomes.
• Effective utilisation of digital technologies and innovation across the council along with stakeholders and partners.
• Ensuring equality and diversity is celebrated and considered as part of all decisions taken.
• Using professional expertise to translate goals and plans into ways of working that comply with relevant legislation and statutory requirements and manages a level of appropriate risk.
• Managing the delivery of exemplar customer interactions to individuals and communities which support the management of strong relationships and a reputation for achieving outcomes and resolving issues.

Accountabilities

• Responsible for ensuring the proper assessment, management and mitigation of risk, including Health and Safety and Business Continuity. Provide intelligent client function service, ensuring ECC is maximising the benefits of the delivery partner contract.
• Accountable for identifying where the implementation of new or improved use of property and facilities can deliver better or more efficient services and work with service areas to deliver those benefits, protecting ECC's capital investment in the core and school's estate as part of long-term strategy
• Accountable for ensuring the appropriate facilities policies, guidance, protocols and processes are implemented, regularly reviewed and updated in response to changes in legislation/modern working practices
• Help in the management of the capital maintenance and facilities management services being delivered to the core and schools' estate, including commissioning, evaluation and continual service delivery improvement.
• Accountable for delivering the planned life cycle replacement programme on the core and schools' estate, including the commissioning of and analysis of condition data, development of the programme and forward maintenance planning based on industry standards. Ensuring, both the Life Cycle Replacement (LCR) programme and Building Condition maintenance demands are identified, planned to programme (rolling cycle) and effectively implemented within budget confines.
• Responsible for addressing unplanned maintenance issues arising within the core and school's estate within available capital budgets.
• Accountable for ensuring ECC's estate complies with all current relevant Legislation, Health and Safety, Business Continuity, Energy management and ECC Governance
• Responsible for understanding and ensuring the demand management requirements of high priority locations as identified within the portfolio e.g. County Hall and hub sites
• Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

The Experience You Will Bring

• Substantial experience delivering facilities management in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment with a diverse property terrier.
• Proven ability to work with partners in a commissioning role and evidence of contract management experience both commercially and delivery.
• Ability to work effectively with internal stakeholders to scope requirements and with external partners in a commissioning role.
• Clearly demonstrated contract and project management experience in a property and facilities field.
• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and partner organizations, which are collaborative and influential in their nature, to achieve strategic objectives.
• Good leadership and behavioral skills, as evidenced by successfully achieving results through a high performing team.

To read more about us please visit: Economy, Investment and Public Health

Please note that the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle, or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means.

Why Essex? Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England's oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest - Basildon and Harlow - are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We're committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We're also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

If you would like to be kept up to date on other relevant opportunities, blogs, news, events and industry related news at Essex County Council, please join The Essex Talent Community

If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email resourcing.team@essex.gov.uk

Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Further details can be found on our careers page.

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