Asset Specialist Building Services

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is one of the government’s largest public service departments with a sizeable annual budget, serving over 20 million citizens.

The estate spans 1.4 million square metres across 800+ sites and supports around 78,000 colleagues.

Our vision includes DWP colleagues, supply chain, partners and, most fundamentally, the customers the Department exists to serve. They are the reason for our existence.

We are responsible for the day-to-day operation of our vast Estate by managing a private sector supply chain that delivers essential services such as Security Guarding, Maintenance, Property and Leasehold Management, Construction, Cleaning and Facilities Management.

DWP Estates is not just about maintaining buildings - it’s about transformation. Our strategic goals include:

• Transitioning to a smaller, more affordable, and adaptable estate to meet future needs
• Investing in infrastructure through planned replacement works
• Embedding sustainability in line with Government Greening Commitments (GGCs)
• Delivering cost-effective services while maintaining high standards
• Creating a professional, best-in-class working culture across the Government Property profession

Our Estates strategy ambitions have been refreshed to take us through to 2030:

• OPTIMISE: Continue to transition to a more affordable and adaptable DWP estate that creates productive environments
• INVEST: Investment in an improved environment that better meets the needs of customers and colleagues and minimises service disruption
• SUPPORT the drive for sustainability throughout DWP
• DELIVER: Expertly deliver improving, cost-effective services for DWP
• THRIVE: Continue to develop a working culture for DWP Estates that is best in class across government

There is no better time to join the award winning DWP Estates team.

The Department is also committed to delivering Sustainability and Net Zero Carbon improvements across its estate, demonstrating leadership in making the public estate smaller, better, greener. The work you will be undertaking is therefore crucial in us meeting the needs of all those who use our services

This role based within the Asset Management team, reporting to the Head of Asset Intelligence, will be key to ensuring support, providing technical assurance to the Estates functions on all asset and building services related matters. It will also include detailed reviewing of reports, assessments and recommendations provided by the supply chain, ensuring that the relevant standards and regulations are applied to the Estate.

• Job Family – Strategic Asset Management
• Core Role – Property Data Management
• Level – Senior Practitioner

• Lead accountability for ensuring definition of processes and standards related to building services (mechanical and electrical). This is delivered by supporting Estates colleagues on technical, engineering and building services matters on the key asset risks such as Fire, Water, Asbestos, Gas, Electricity, Lifts and Ventilation systems.
• Supporting Estates in the identification and technical advice on specifications / systems required for building services installations (mechanical and electrical) and their safety features and requirements to meet legal compliance. Work closely with stakeholders across Estates Design Standards, Service Delivery, Policy and Compliance and Projects Team & other internal/external stakeholders to provide review and support.
• To monitor, review in detail and provide assurance of asset management activities planned and carried out by our Supply Chain partners including auditing and monitoring the accuracy of the asset register for building services assets.
• Build a risk profile on the building services area (mechanical/electrical) to feed into risk profiles for assets & buildings
• Audits project completion activities to ensure that asset registers and PPM records are updated on completion of projects.
• Ensure adherence to relevant policy, standards and statutory requirements.
• Create a dashboard for asset trends as part of asset compliance reporting.
• Maintains a live database of…