Current Role includes:

• Manage all major estates management suppliers and supply chain compliance including commercial insurance.
• To promote strategic improvement of all estates/building operations in line with the Firms' strategic plan, focus on ethical and sustainable procurement, cost effectiveness and efficiency and promoting our great workspaces.
• Managing regional estates managers and health and safety manager across all sites
• Develop and grow the National Estates Team across all sites.
• Ensure strategic improvement of environmental, health and safety compliance across all sites exceeding best practice expectations.

Projects over the last five years:

• Generator design and installation project (Northampton, 2016)

• Refurbishment/ internal office move (Montgomery street, Belfast, 2017)
• Major building HVAC and refurbishment of 49,000 sq ft (Northampton, 2018)
• Refurbishment and office relocation at Forum 5 (Solent, 2018)
• Currently working on energy audits and submission for compliance with ESOS Phase II compliance.

Expertise:

• building maintenance, structural repairs, Major plant installations
• full knowledge of Building services
• workspace design and management
• incident management and business continuity planning
• project management
• health and safety compliance
• environmental management
• supply chain compliance
• commercial insurance

Education:

• MSc in Facilities Management (2003)
• NEBOSH National General Certificate and Fire Risk and Safety (2007)
• Pg. Cert in Occupational health and safety management (2016)
• Prince 2 Foundation and Practitioner 2017  (2019)
• Foundation Certificate in Environmental Management (2019)

Memberships:

• Certified Member of Inst. of Workplace Facilities Management - CIWFM
• Graduate Member of Inst. of Safety and Health - Grad IOSH
• Associate Member of Inst. of Environmental Management - AIEMA

Internal Roles:

• Chair of National Estates Managers Meetings
• National Environmental Health and Safety Committee
• Climate change working group