Meet the Facilities Team

ACT’s Facilities team oversees everything from the upkeep of our buildings, to making sure environmental targets are met. Here the team share their busy day to day activities to ensure our offices run smoothly.

Emma Page Facilities Manager “My role is to look after our buildings, as well as the Health and Safety of the organisation. The role of a Facilities Manager is incredibly random and no two days are the same. My day can often go from speaking to a solicitor in the morning about a property transaction or new lease, to getting my hands dirty and cleaning up after a leak in the toilets. The facilities team has grown this year to include two new roles: Workplace H&S Officer and Sustainability Officer as ACT moves toward a more sustainable approach to our business. We have also recently welcomed the Employer Appraisal Officers into the team from November.”

Dean Knapman Workplace Health & Safety Officer

“My job is supporting the Facilities Manager, Emma Page, in ensuring that ACT Training is kept compliant with Health and Safety legislation. My main role is to keep all our employees and learners as safe as possible, during their day-to-day activities. I’m involved in activities relating to the safety of our buildings and our people and learners. I’m also responsible for ensuring that Risk Assessments are kept up to date, updating policies and procedures and carrying out audits and checks within our training centres. I also work with our contractors to ensure outsourced risks are being controlled and managed.”

Alex Cordery Sustainability Officer "I work with the Facilities Team to minimise ACT’s environmental impact. In order to do this, we’re creating an environmental management system (EMS) which is a set of processes covering many aspects that may have an environmental impact, through ACT’s operations. Some of these processes include our pollution response, waste management, legal compliance, communications, and much more. We’re gathering data on waste management, energy usage, and essential business travel to find areas of improvement. The aim is to have our EMS accredited with ISO 14001 which is the highest international accreditation available and show ACT's commitment to continual improvement!”

Mark Blewitt Employer Appraisal Officer "My role involves completing Health and Safety Appraisals for the Apprenticeships and JGW+ programmes, to ensure that our learners are kept safe while they are completing their work-experience placements or Apprenticeship opportunities. I get to see first-hand how important our work placement and Apprenticeship opportunities really are! I also complete various maintenance and facilities tasks within the Caerphilly centre, work with our various contractors when they visit and liaise with colleagues on a regular basis. I do this to ensure that any Health and Safety or Facilities issues at the centre are dealt with.

Darren George Employee Appraisal Officer "My role involves completing Health and Safety appraisals for the Apprenticeships and JGW+ programmes. This is to ensure that our learners are kept safe while they are completing their work-experience placements or Apprenticeship opportunities while adhering to The Welsh Assembly Governments Health and Safety code of practice which is a contractual obligation. I could be at a construction site one day then a home working self-employed accountant the next. I also complete various maintenance and facilities tasks within the Hadfield Road centre, work with our various sub-contractors when they visit and liaise with my colleagues on a regular basis to ensure that any other issues at the centre are dealt with."

Stephen Bailey Post Officer

Stephen’s role as Post Officer is to distribute all incoming post and prepare all outgoing post for mailing. Stephen also has a role within Ocean Park House for testing the fire alarm bells on a weekly basis. He is our longest serving ACT team member, having been part of the ACT family for over 30 Years.

John Hayward Caretaker

John’s role is to ensure the smooth running of our Ocean Park House Building. You will often find John out onsite bleeding radiators, sorting the rubbish and clearing up leaves/litter. John will also get involved in maintenance around the site and often assists with maintenance in some of our other locations.

Alan Johnson Security Officer

Alan is ACT’s Security Officer. He is now based over in our Hadfield Road centre, following the joining of the two JGW+ teams. Alan’s role is to provide a security presence and be on hand to assist with the management of behaviour around the Hadfield Road Site.