Deputy Facilities Manager

A great opportunity has come along for a Deputy Facilities Manager with commercial environment background to join our team on a manufacturing site in Manchester looking after catering, cleaning, engineering and security service delivery.

You would be an experienced facilities management professional from a manufacturing environment with a strong desire to progress in their career. This role would suit a soft services manager who is looking to develop themselves into a Total Facilities Manager.

We offer a great team, a salary up to £35,000 dependent on experience, and excellent professional development and progression opportunities within Sodexo. Operating hours are 7am – 3pm Monday to Friday.

Role Responsibility

• Management of the cleaning, security, hard services, production and catering operations to ensure effective and efficient service delivery through compliance with legislation to Sodexo and contractual requirements including the delivery of defined budgets and profit margins
• To ensure that the service delivery measures are to the Company and Client standards as specified by the contract
• Maximise profitability for Sodexo and manage costs
• To assist the Facilities Manager with the day to day service of the units
• To be a management point of contact for building occupants and stakeholders regards
• To report all faults and issues to relevant service partners and manage reactive operations
• To monitor, review and effectively manage the teams in delivering to the service specification requirements as outlined in the contract
• To have a full working knowledge of the sites including all services and deputise in the absence of the Facilities Manager

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Previous experience in a commercial facilities environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively
• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative
• People management experience
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Proven experience of managing a diverse workforce within a service environment
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Manage multiple workloads and shifting priorities
• Positive approach to learning in role and identifying own training needs as appropriate
• Ability to interpret and utilise financial and commercial information
• Achieve, set standards and operate to performance criteria
• Managing Safely qualification or training equivalent to IOSH
• Proficient user of Microsoft Office applications

Desirable

• BIFM, NVQ qualification, or equivalent
• Experience of delivering training/toolbox talks
• SAP