Household / Department

Reservicing

Location

Buckingham Palace

Contract/recruitment type

Fixed Term Contract

Start date

October 2024

End date

October 2026

Starting salary

Circa £46,000 per annum

Hours of work

37.5 per week (Monday to Friday)

About the role

It’s using your experience to deliver outstanding work. And it’s the pride in joining a team who will preserve the palace for future generations. This is what makes working for the Royal Household exceptional.

Buckingham Palace is currently undergoing a largescale Reservicing Programme, innovating and preserving one of the world’s most prestigious and iconic historic buildings for the future.

Joining an established in-house team, you’ll manage the varied logistics required to deliver this complex construction programme.

Key Responsibilities:

You'll coordinate and oversee the movement of contractors, materials and equipment, ensuring the Reservicing programme continues to progress efficiently.
Your main task will be to ensure reservicing work is fully integrated alongside the busy operations of a working palace. Balancing stakeholder needs with the precise schedule of works will be key.
The historical architecture, physical access and tight deadlines will all need to be considered, and every day will pose a different and often unique challenge.
You'll create both short and long term logistic strategies, consulting with a range of stakeholders, colleagues and contractors, to deliver highly detailed plans.
There will also be contract management nature to your role, and you will drive performance through our existing FM contractors and other service providers.
You’ll always be looking ahead. Producing regular, real time reports, overseeing risk management, and chairing our logistics management meetings, you’ll be relied upon to identify and scope out upcoming logistical needs.

And in all you do, your expert steering will help ensure the successful delivery of a truly unique programme.

About you

Essential Criteria

Experience of delivering a logistics strategy in a facilities management role or within a construction environment.
Your organisation skills will be absolutely vital, enabling you to effectively plan, prioritise and deliver multiple strands of works with varying timescales.
You’ll be adept at working at a strategic level whilst also taking ownership of the day to day tactical issues and facilities management needed in this busy programme.
You'll have worked on complex projects or programmes of works before, and particular experience working in occupied buildings within an historic environment would be a real advantage.
You'll have a good understanding of Health and Safety requirements, holding a CSCS card. A working knowledge of statutory compliance and risk management will also be important.
As a confident and diplomatic communicator, with strong customer focus, you'll be able to build strong working relationships with internal and external colleagues and contractors alike.
You’ll also have excellent written communication skills and a keen eye for detail, along with an ability to produce work and reports for a range of audiences, including board level.
Perceptive and resourceful, you'll be quick to assess issues, before reacting effectively. But above all, it’s your initiative and problem solving skills that will make you an asset to the team and ensure your success

You may have industry recognised qualifications, but what’s most important is your ability to manage complex, multi-faceted logistics issues from security to welfare. Finally, you'll be eager to take advantage of this new role and the varied learning opportunities that it presents.

Benefits

We know that to deliver our best work; we need to feel at our best. That’s why at the Royal Household we offer a generous benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and life priorities.

Enjoy 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days (plus bank holidays) dependent on the length of time you have worked for us.

Our excellent non-contributory pension plan (we’ll contribute5% and you can contribute more if you wish) is highly valued by our employees, as is complimentary lunch on-site to keep you fuelled throughout the day.

Flexible and hybrid working varies across different roles, and we’ll discuss the options available to you that will suit both your job requirements and individual preferences.

We also offer a range of leave options to support your life priorities, such as parental pay and leave and volunteering days, as well as benefits to support your physical and mental wellbeing.

Other perks include 20% off at our Royal Collection Trust Shops and complimentary admission tickets across all our locations, along with many more exclusive employee discounts.

Find out more about the full range of benefits available to our employees here.

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