Bus Depot Property Manager

Bus Depot Property Manager

£52,466 per annum - Grade 9

Leeds / Hybrid Full time / Permanent - 37 hours per week

Closing date – 31 May at 23:55

Please note that the Combined Authority will consider requests for part-time working and/or job share.

This is a rare opportunity to shape and define a brand-new role, driving the safe, compliant, and efficient management of key operational sites that underpin the region’s bus network.

As the Bus Depot Property Manager, you will take the lead in building strong, effective relationships with bus operator tenants across the Combined Authority’s strategic depot portfolio, ensuring consistent, positive engagement for the long term. You will develop a clear understanding of responsibilities between the Combined Authority as landlord and its operator tenants, working collaboratively to monitor compliance, oversee lifecycle maintenance, and support renewal and investment programmes that keep depots fit for purpose in a rapidly evolving transport landscape.

If you’re motivated by complex challenges, enjoy working with a wide range of partners, and want to play a central role in delivering high-quality public infrastructure, this position offers the chance to make a meaningful and lasting impact.

Our Offer

· Work your way – From flexible and agile working options, including a generous flexi-time scheme to help you balance your personal life and career.

· Time to recharge – Enjoy 28 days of annual leave (with increases based on length of service), plus all Bank Holidays.

· Free greener travel across West Yorkshire – Cover your commute sustainably with unlimited free bus and rail travel using the MCard (Zones 1–5).

· Secure your future – Benefit from a highly competitive Local Government Pension Scheme.

· Investing in you – Take advantage of fully funded professional development, regular training, and up to 3 paid volunteering days per year.

· Grow with us – Incremental salary progression for most roles and annual cost of living increases.

· Family first – We offer enhanced parental and bereavement leave, plus other family-friendly policies to support you when it matters most.

· Your wellbeing, our priority – Access 24/7 free confidential counselling services and the Headspace app for you and up to 5 family or friends.

· Modern workspace in a prime location – Work in bright, contemporary offices just a 2-minute walk from Leeds Train Station, fully equipped with the latest tech.

The Role

Reporting into the Head of Transport Facilities, your key responsibilities will include:

· To lead the Combined Authority’s landlord relationship with bus operator tenants across bus depot sites.

· To lead and be responsible for compliance and safety with respect to the Combined Authority’s landlord obligations.

· To collaboratively manage the property lifecycle maintenance and investment requirements across depot sites.

Please review the Role Profile on our website for more information about the responsibilities.

About You

You will have the following key skills, attributes, education, and experience:

· Holds a degree in building, construction or engineering or has relevant demonstrable practical experience in a similar role.

· Relevant professional qualification such as RICS / CIOB.

· Extensive knowledge and experience of the tendering process including preparation and issuing tender documents, tender appraisals, reports and the award of contracts.

· Knowledge and experience of the Construction Design and Management Regulations, Health and Safety at Work Act, and Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.

· Demonstrable experience of working with tenants, representing landlord requirements, and negotiating positive outcomes.

· Proven ability and previous experience of delivering infrastructure, construction and other projects from inception to completion.

To Apply

If this sounds like your next role, please complete the application form and tell us within the supporting statement why you would be a great fit for our role and how your skills, knowledge and experience align with the requirements within the Role Profile. Please visit our Advice for Candidates webpage and review the guidance on this page for support in completing your application form.

Further Information

The Combined Authority is passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better outcomes. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender

expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro divergent. To find out more about inclusivity at the West Yorkshire Combined Authority please visit our dedicated webpage.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, applicants with a disability are guaranteed an interview, subject to the minimum criteria being met