John Lightley Email & Phone Number

Darlington, Gb

Darlington, England, United Kingdom

Leading a team providing a first class Property Support Service to a diverse portfolio of circa 300 care homes across the UK. The service encompasses property compliance activities, reactive maintenance, planned maintenance and project works, totalling on average 7,000 transactions per calendar month.

Darlington, United Kingdom

Sunderland, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the management of allocated construction and maintenance contracts to ensure that projects are delivered safely and within given time, cost and quality restraints.• Organisation, planning and procurement of resources allocated to construction projects and maintenance works.• Analysing tender documentation and surveying proposed works, in order to prepare and submit tenders for construction and maintenance activities.• Client liaison and client relationship management.• Business development by seeking and securing new business opportunities and clients.

Uk Wide

Strategic property management of circa 100 trading retail properties throughout the UK, as well as head office facilities and distribution centres.Provision of building and M & E planned and reactive maintenance services to the properties managed, via the effective management and co ordination of service providers.Budgetary control of the allocated property services budget, consisting of a capital budget of circa £1.1 million and a revenue budget of circa £750kRegular condition surveying of properties to identify and prioritise repairs, improvements, minor works and planned maintenance works.Procurement and project management of refurbishment works, retail concessions, downsizes and property mergers.Provision of a 24/7 property technical support function to store based colleagues.Management of statutory compliance for CDM, fire, H&S, DDA, asbestos and building control.Key Achievements:Representative of the property services department who sat on the carbon reduction working group to devise and implement carbon reduction strategies. This lead to the review and revision of the standard maintenance and new construction specifications, which in turn lead to a reduced carbon footprint and reduced utility costs.Strategic in the formulation and implementation of a cost reduction programme that lead to the revision and re tendering of planned and reactive maintenance contracts via e-tender, which achieved cost savings of 20% per annum.Specified, procured and project managed enabling works to trading properties in preparation for the implementation of a shop fitting programme to improve and enhance the customer shopping experience within stores

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Responsible for the provision of refurbishment, planned and reactive maintenance works across a broad range of commercial properties, consisting of light industrial, office and retail premises, consisting of over 1,200 individual properties with a total gross floor area in excess of 3.5 million sq ft. Procurement, administration and management of refurbishment, reactive and planned building maintenance works.Production of tender packages and work specifications.Undertaking of dilapidation surveys to identify and establish liability for dilapidations, the production of dilapidation schedules and the negotiation and settlement of dilapidation claims.