Facilities Contracts Manager

Job content

We are currently recruiting for a Facilities Manager that will be responsible for maintaining IRIS buildings throughout the UK. The successful candidate will perform various minor repairs and small installations at multiple location and oversee works as requested by sites once costed and approved, while coaching and training other facilities team members in M&E maintenance regimes.

Main responsibilities

Overseeing building operations, identifying issues of concern, providing solutions, troubleshooting appliances, and building systems.
Conducting basic repairs, handling preventative maintenance tasks, and ensuring the integrity of exterior premises.
Mange the contracts for M&E.
Liaise with the health and safety team onsite and HQ to maintain compliance, including that of third-party services providers and maintenance records.
To oversee third party contracts to ensure the correct standard of service is provided in accordance with the agreed contract.
Take ownership of all repair request that come in through the Service Desk.
To compile and maintain all required management information/records relating to company, health and safety and other related records. This includes asset register, emergency plans and all related records and management reports.
To manage minor work programmes on site, acting as the liaison point for all parties involved.
To monitor FM works onsite and liaise with service providers/sub-contractors.
Assist the Facilities Director with the integration of new mergers and acquisitions.

About you

Previous technical facilities management experience including managing contractors and management service agreements as applicable.
Excellent customer service, interpersonal and communication skills.
IT literate.
High degree and knowledge reference of Health and Safety legislation, environmental protection requirements and ideally IOSH or NEBOSH qualified.
Ability to work within a team and on own initiative and within a pressurised environment with excellent organisational and planning skills.
MWIFM qualification or working towards a qualification is desirable.
Building maintenance knowledge, attention to details, problem solving, teamwork, and organization and planning.

About us

IRIS Software Group is one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies. Its purpose is to be the most trusted provider of mission-critical software and services, ensuring customers get it right first time, every time.

IRIS takes the pain out of processes and let professionals working in businesses and schools focus on the work they love. Its software solutions and services for finance, HR and payroll teams, educational organisations, and accountancy firms helps comply with regulations, drive productivity and better engage with key stakeholders. Through simplifying, automating and providing insights on everyday mission-critical tasks for organisations of all shapes and sizes, IRIS ensures customers can look forward with certainty and confidence.

IRIS has over 120,000 UK and international customers with 80% having a tenure of five or more years. IRIS is the largest third-party online filer with the UK Government. Ninety-one of the top 100 UK accountancy firms and 50 of the top 100 US CPA firms use IRIS software. Circa 20% of the UK’s workforce is paid by IRIS payroll offerings. More than 850,000 UK employees are managed by IRIS HR solutions. Over 11,000 UK schools and academies use IRIS, with four million parents and guardians using IRIS apps to connect with their children’s school; 300 million messages are delivered between schools and parents each year, and over £15 million transactional payments are processed every month. IRIS is placed 93rd in the Grant Thornton Sunday Times Top Track 250, which is compiled by Fast Track and published in The Sunday Times each September, celebrates Britain’s private mid-market growth companies with the biggest performance.

To see how IRIS helps organisations get things right first time, every time, visit www.iris.co.uk or follow IRIS Software Group on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.