Project Interface Lead
Location: HMP Highpoint (Based) & HMP Chelmsford
Salary: £48,412.56
Contract: Fixed term contract for 12 months
Hours: Full Time, 39 hours - Monday-Friday
Travel: Travel between both Sites Required.
We are seeking an experienced and dedicated Project Interface Lead to join our team at HMP Highpoint & HMP Chelmsford, a category C adult male prison.
Join a team that is more than just a group of colleagues – we work Monday to Friday as a supportive and driven family, working together to create a safe and nurturing environment.
HMP Highpoint & HMP Chelmsford both run like self-contained cities. It takes hundreds of people to keep it functioning and as the Facilities Maintenance Team we are committed and driving the smooth and safe operation. Everything we do impacts every prisoner, employee, and visitor, and wider to the families and community.
As a Project Interface Lead you will be the communicator between MOJ project teams, contractors, stakeholders, and GFSL operational maintenance teams, ensuring effective coordination, communication, and resolution of interface issues to support successful project delivery of considerable expansion works.
You will facilitate collaboration across all parties, manage site-based project interfaces, mitigate operational risks, and ensure continuity between project implementation and business-as-usual maintenance activities. The role will also provide operational support to GFSL Supervisors and Site Managers to enable informed decision-making and smooth project handover.
We are a Ministry of Justice business and provide critical and time-bound services to HMPPS, and are looking for a Project Interface Lead with a combination of:
If this sounds like you, we would like to hear from you!
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Welcome to careers at Gov Facilities Services Limited (GFSL). Joining us is your chance to help ensure prisons are secure and safe for prisoners and prison staff alike, and to play your part in helping prisoners reintegrate into society.
Holidays are 25 days per year plus Bank Holidays, and a range of non-contractual benefits are provided. These range from Death in Service at 4x salary, to access to private GP consultations and an Employee Assistance Programme that offers counselling and information services for preventative care and to help employees in a crisis. There are also a range of financial reward mechanisms and access to retailer discounts.
You will find a strong focus on safety, a supportive, inclusive workplace, a competitive benefits package, and real opportunity to build your skills and progress.
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Future Plans.
GFSL has been notified by it's shareholder (MOJ) that the provision of FM Services will in future be delivered by the private sector. This means that following a successful procurement process, GFSL's services will complete transfer to a private sector provider/providers no sooner than August 2027.
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