Estates and Facilities Compliance Officer
Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education, City College Norwich, Ipswich Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 2LJ11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
31 August 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 August 2026
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
- Business support, administration and corporate services
- Other support role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week over 5 days, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- £36,701 - £28,738 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Role Purpose
A newly created role to strengthen the College’s approach to statutory compliance, asset management,and planned maintenance.
You will coordinate and monitor statutory inspections and servicing across a diverse and complex asset base, ensuring a consistent, compliant and well-governed process across both curriculum equipment and estate infrastructure.
The Opportunity
With the introduction of a newTopDesk asset management system, this role is central to:
- Creating a single, accurate asset register
- Improving visibility and compliance assurance
- Driving a structured, efficient approach to inspections and maintenance
- Reducing risk across all campuses
Key Responsibilities
- Asset & Compliance Management
- Maintain a centralised asset database across all departments and estates.
- Track statutory inspections and servicing requirements.
- Inspection & Maintenance Coordination
- Plan and coordinate inspection programmes with departments and E&F teams.
- Ensure timely completion and certification.
- Compliance Monitoring
- Review inspection reports and documentation.
- Identify risks, non-compliance, and required remedial actions.
- Reporting & Analysis
- Produce compliance reports, dashboards and trend analysis.
- Provide assurance to senior management.
- System Development (TopDesk)
- Support implementation and ongoing use of TopDesk.
- Improve data quality, workflows and reporting.
Working Relationships
- Line managed by Estates & Compliance Manager
- Work closely with:
- Facilities Managers
- Department Technicians
- Administration teams
- External contractors
About You
- Experience in estates, facilities, engineering or technical compliance
- Knowledge of statutory inspection regimes (e.g. LOLER, electrical, pressure systems, or similar)
- Strong organisational and data management skills
- Ability to work across teams and coordinate activity effectively.
- Proactive, detail-focused, and solutions-driven
Experience with asset systems (e.g. TopDesk) desirable but not essential.
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a high-impact, newly created role.
- Shape a modern, data-driven compliance framework.
- Improve safety and performance across a complex estate.
- Play a key role in a major system transformation.
What the college offers its staff
Pension Schemes
Support Staff - Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) 19.8% Employer Contribution
Annual Leave Allowance
Support staff 26 days plus bank holidays increasing annually to 31 days and 32 days after 10 years.
College Rewards - A reward scheme providing discounts and/or cashback for purchases from a wide selection of retailers (in store and online)
Company Paid Health Plan - Reimbursement of healthcare costs (up to limits depending on membership level), access to counselling services and 24 hour a day advice
Eye Care Vouchers for VDU eye tests
Specsavers vouchers provided in advance of the appointment covering the eye test cost and discounts on a selected range of glasses
Cycle Solutions Cycle-to-Work Scheme
In association with Cycle Solutions, this scheme allows you to hire a bike via salary sacrifice. The full cost of the bike will be split across 18 months and deducted from your gross salary.
Discounts and promotions for:Solutions Gym, Solutions Spa, Solutions Hair Salon and Debut Restaurant at City College Norwich
Travel - Discounted, bus, rail and park and ride tickets
On site nursery at City College Norwich
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on college website (opens in new tab)About Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education
- Organisation type
- FE College, ages 16 to 99
- Education phase
- Sixth form or FE college
- Size
- No information available
- Age range
- 16 to 99
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- heidi.ray@ccn.ac.uk
If you are looking for a career where you will change lives, build stronger communities and contribute to the prosperity of our region, then a job at City College Norwich is for you.
Our college is one of the largest in East Anglia and we have a diverse team of over one thousand full and part-time staff in a range of teaching and student support roles and business support services. Whatever your skills and experience, we are likely to have roles that will suit you.
The way we work together and with our students is really important to us. Our Ways of Working help us to work and learn together with respect, where an inclusive approach means that everyone is valued for their contribution to our community.
City College Norwich has an outstanding campus with industry-standard facilities. Although our college has been established for over 135 years, a lot of the buildings on our campus have been built or newly refurbished in the past few years.
This includes our award-winning Creative Arts Building, and £9m Digi-Tech Factory which is proving to be a real asset for a wide range of students. This inspirational building is a centre for digital skills, including our digital technology, engineering and design courses. Our latest investments have been in our Advanced Construction and Engineering Centre which is home to a range of cutting-edge workshop equipment and the latest electric vehicle maintenance equipment and our Construction Skills Hub supporting plumbers and electricians of the future!
In addition to our campus facilities, students have access to some of the best specialist facilities in Norfolk. This includes our Aviation Engineering students who study at the world class International Aviation Academy Norwich and our Sport and Outdoor Leadership students who developed their skills at the Easton Centre of Excellence for Sport.
Superb facilities would be nothing without superb staff, and we have those too! Professional, friendly and expert teachers deliver high quality teaching and training in a supportive and challenging environment that is designed to meet your individual needs.
Rated 'Good' by Ofsted, the quality of our teaching is recognised in our latest inspection report and noted as helping students ‘make good progress, achieve their qualifications and realise their ambitions’.
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