Facilities Manager

Facilities Manager

Location: Central London

Salary: Up to 55,000

Job type: Permanent, fully site based

The role:

Our client is seeking a dedicated and experienced Facilities Manager to provide leadership and management of a site or group of sites within a large corporate contract, ensuring financial and operational commitments are met and exceeded.

The responsibilities:

• Ensuring business policies and processes are effectively communicated, and implemented within the contract.
• Ensure the provision of healthy and safe working conditions and that both clients and Company health and safety policy and process is effectively implemented across both company services and sub-contractors activities, and are regularly reviewed.
• Managing operational staffing structures across contracts, balancing cost reduction with the delivery of service excellence. Ensure structures support peaks and troughs in workload, and disaster recovery.
• Ensure sites are staffed by fully competent teams, ensuring post holders are fully competent, and that effective succession planning arrangements are in place.
• Working with others within the account to ensure the collaborative development of the business, effective teamworking, and support to colleagues.
• Management of revenue and profit delivery, reduction of WIP, debt, cost reduction and contract growth, and ensure that these targets are met and exceeded.
• Ensure appropriate control systems to ensure statutory, policy and contractual commitments are met.
• Ensuring a customer focus within all areas of operational activities, and that effective relationships are maintained with key client contacts.
• Delivering effective business communication through advice and team meetings, briefings, correspondence, monthly and ad-hoc reporting and other publications, as appropriate.

Candidate Specification:

• Excellent motivational and influencing skills, with high levels of personal integrity, with the ability to demonstrate this effectively
• Organised, able to prioritise and deliver within high pressure, business critical environments
• Experience in team management and development
• Good commercial acumen
• IOSH Qualification (essential)
• NEBOSH Qualification (desired)