Management

Are you energetic, dynamic and creative with the vision and skills to lead the further development of one of Scotland’s major tourist attractions?

The award winning Helix has transformed 300 hectares between Falkirk and Grangemouth to create parklands, lagoon, paths and cycle ways in addition to a new stretch of the Forth and Clyde canal topped off by two magnificent Kelpies – the world’s largest equine structures!

The successful candidate will create opportunities for community involvement within this superb visitor experience, whilst driving income growth in the catering and retail areas of the business. We need someone who has proven expertise in the management and development of large-scale facilities, outstanding partnership skills and a great track record in operational management. As you would expect with such a high-profile role you will be working at a local, national and international level to ensure that the Helix continues to deliver on its objectives.

Role Purpose:
We are seeking to appoint an experienced Mechanical and Electrical Engineer as one of our Facilities Management team to manage the existing mechanical and electrical building services, including security and fire alarm systems and to lead the electrical and security systems improvement projects. The post is responsible for all matters relating to building services, including planned and response maintenance activities by contractors, ensuring compliance with relevant statutory instruments.

This role reports into the Head of Estates which is part of the Chief Operating Office Leadership Team.

The Chief Operating Office includes our entire Operations team, consisting of Health & Safety, Security and Visitor Services (SVS), Procurement and Legal, working together with our Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources and Estates Teams.

We work together and collaborate across NGS and with external partners to ensure our collection is safe and secure, to deliver operational services that improve our visitor experience and to ensure NGS is a great place for us all to work.

This is an exciting time for the Chief Operating Office within NGS as we continue to develop and implement our 5 year improvement plans, plan to open the newly established gallery spaces at the Scottish National Gallery and input to the development of the major new collection facility at Granton – The Art Works (TAW).

The main responsibilities of this role will be

• ensure maintenance works and estates capital projects are carried out within full compliance of robust processes to ensure the integrity, safety of our staff and environmental conditions for our collection are maintained throughout
• appoint and manage the building services planned and response maintenance contracts for allocated mechanical and electrical building services for our heritage buildings
• assist in the development and manage the planned preventive maintenance and replacement plan for our electrical and security installations.