Senior Facilities Manager

This is key role within the Estates team and will be responsible for supporting the Head of Facilities to deliver the objectives of the team relating to the day to day operations, maintenance and compliance of the estate.

Client Details

Our client is the Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner West Mercia.

Description

The Senior Facilities Manager will line manage a Facilities Management team and will be responsible for:

• Overseeing the day to day operations and maintenance of the West Mercia Police and Herefordshire & Worcestershire Fire & Rescue Service estates
• Ensuring the estate is fully compliant at all times in accordance with statutory regulations
• Driving a positive H&S culture across the organisation
• Managing the CAFM system and using associated data to report to senior stakeholders on the status of all planned and reactive maintenance
• Developing and maintaining relationships with senior stakeholders
• Assisting the Head of Facilities with the annual preparation of FM budgets
• Driving and implementing continuous improvement across the estate
• Working closely with the wider estates team to ensure department objectives are met

Profile

The ideal candidate for this role will have a proven background of working withing Facilities Management with 5+ years experience of leading and managing a team of FM professionals and have experience of managing the delivery of hard & soft services across a multi site portfolio of properties.You will need to haven a strong working knowledge of CAFM systems and estates compliance legislation.

It is anticipated that you will have an IWFM membership and associated qualifications relating to FM & Estates and ideally hold a NEBOSH or IOSH qualification or be working towards this.

The following are specific personal attributes that applicants will need to demonstrate:

• High levels of resilience & patience
• Highly developed influential skills
• Innovative & creative
• Highly persuasive
• Highly diplomatic
• Political nouse and awareness of public sector process and governance

The role will require travel across the Worcestershire region so you will need to live within a sensible commuting distance of the West Mercia region (Worcestershire/Herefordshire/Shropshire) and have access to your own vehicle.

Job Offer

A starting salary of £58,000 is on offer and you will also be enrolled on to a local government pension scheme.