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Job description

Property Services Division (PSD) provides hard Facilities Management & Property Maintenance Services, through a range of professional and technical services, to a broad range of NICS and wider public sector clients. Property Services Division’s role is to provide a range of high quality, professional property and hard facilities management services i.e., reactive maintenance requests, Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and associated remedial works (cyclical, scheduled and planned maintenance) as well as teams delivering construction projects up to a value of £500,000. HPTO Building & Fabric Designers play a major role with regard to the delivery of construction projects up to a value of £500,000, ensuring the best outcomes for clients in terms of quality, cost and timeliness are achieved.

Responsibilities

• Project feasibility, brief development, production of scheme & detail design information, statutory approvals, site inspections & building surveys
• Managing the delivery of multi-disciplinary and architectural works projects (up to a value of £500k) in compliance with public sector procurement policy
• Directing and supervising contractors undertaking works
• Please see page 17 of the Candidate Information Booklet (CIB) for more detail.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• 1(a) An NVQ Level 4 qualification in Architecture / Architectural Technology / Building Construction / Building Studies;
• b) A minimum of 3 years’ relevant post-qualification experience in the delivery of Architectural services/works in a maintenance environment, typically found within buildings. The post qualification experience shall include the delivery of works
• Projects and the production of architectural/construction drawings, using computer aided design applications i.e. AutoCAD
• 2. (a) An NVQ Level 5 qualification in Architecture / Architectural Technology / Building Construction / Construction Engineering with Surveying;
• (b) A minimum of 2 years’ relevant post-qualification experience in the delivery of Architectural services/works in a maintenance environment, typically found within buildings. The post qualification experience shall include the delivery of works...
• ...projects and the production of architectural/construction drawings, using computer aided design applications i.e. AutoCAD.
• 3. (a) An Honours Degree or equivalent Level 6 qualification in Architecture / Architectural Technology / Building Construction / Building Surveying;
• (b) a minimum of 1 years’ relevant post-qualification experience in the delivery of Architectural services/works in a maintenance environment, typically found within buildings. The post qualification experience shall include the delivery of works...
• ...projects and the production of architectural/construction drawings, using computer aided design applications i.e. AutoCAD.
• 4. Access to a form of transport so that the post holder can meet the full requirements of the post. Note that this includes regular visits to a wide range of sites (sometimes several sites in one day)... Northern Ireland, many o
• ...which are spread across Northern Ireland, many of which are inaccessible by public transport, and a number of which require the postholder to have the relevant security clearance to enter.

Desirable Skills

• Should it be necessary to shortlist candidates to go forward to interview the panel will carry out an objective evaluation of the breadth and depth of information provided by candidates in response to eligibility criteria 1b, 2b or 3b.

Further Information

NICS Application form only, Vacancy closing date 20th February 2026 at 12 noon. Applications from Protestants, females, young people (under the age of 35) and people from minority ethnic communities are particularly welcomed for this post. The Northern Ireland Civil Service is an Equal Opportunities Employer. All applications for employment are considered strictly on the basis of merit.

Application Information

Visit the recruitment service website www.nicsrecruitment.org.uk (Please quote reference number: IRC321054)