Regional Facilities Manager

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This well established and successful company is expanding and looking for an experienced Facilities Manager. Along with a salary of up to £40,000 they offer excellent working conditions and benefits that include a car allowance of £3,000 pa, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, free parking, and a pension scheme.

About the role:
Working from home with regular visits to the head office in Chorley, you will be covering various sites across the UK. You will be working in an FM role providing support, contractual admin and planning to ensure you provide high quality office services, health and safety and space/office planning while ensuring and safe and well maintained property selection to a range of customers. Duties will include:

Providing support and liaising with customers to excellent service and business support

Responding to customer requests and issues within SLAs

Building excellent working relationships via regular review meetings, gaining a full understanding of their expectations and requirements

Taking ownership of all facilities and site services, co-ordinating with suitable contractors and suppliers to meet all H+S requirements

Looking after all outsourced support contracts including repairs, cleaning, security and other hard and soft services, working with agreed budgets

Ensuring site security, repair and maintenance of company property including all infrastructure, services and property as well as maintaining all fire safety equipment and lighting systems along with evacuation procedures

Managing office services including reception, meeting facilities, catering, cleaning and vending to meet high customer expectations and standards

Managing and ensuring and effective out of hours emergency on call service

Ensuring compliance with all statutory regulations, inspections, codes of practice, COSHH and relevant Health & Safety legislation and policies, making sure any contracted work meets regulations

Maintaining all H+S files along with all fire safety documentation and certification

Co-ordination of contractors regarding building maintenance and repair services including the set up of preventive maintenance schedules and inspections

Conducting regular site inspections

Managing, motivating and developing a team of staff across the sites

Responsible for the overall control, performance, motivation, team building, career and personal development of all direct reports

Creating reports as required for the business and keeping suitable records including emergency information sheets, health and safety logbooks, expenditure records, and service contract documents

Skills and Experience Required:
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2 years’ direct Facilities Management responsibility in the control of both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ service provision and have strong previous people management experience. You will have a working knowledge of M&E systems and installations with an understanding of the operation of HVAC, electrical distribution and generation, UPS, comms room, fire detection/protection and other engineering systems including building management and energy management systems. A NEBOSH Health & Safety General Certification or similar is essential. An FM related qualification such as IWFM would also be beneficial. You will be comfortable with Word, Excel and Outlook. You will have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships and provide excellent customer service. Due to the need to visit other sites, a full current driving licence is essential.

The benefits package:
A salary of £35,000 to £40,000, depending on experience

Car allowance of £3,000

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Pension scheme

Free parking

Excellent prospects

To Apply

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