Facilities Manager (West Yorkshire)

Role Overview

Reporting to the Senior Facilities Manager, the Facilities Manager will be part of a team responsible for ensuring seamless facilities management services are provided to all clients and customers, as well as supporting the day-to-day business of the organisation.

The role will be predominately based in West Yorkshire working with site based FM staff however will also involve working with the wider commercial and customer care teams and therefore will involve travel to Head office in Hull.

• Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am – 5:00pm, with 1 hour for lunch (37.5 hours per week)
• Location: West Yorkshire (to work out of our regional offices in either Leeds or Elland)

Key Responsibilities

• Acting as the key account holder for designated clients and contracts
• Coordination and management of both soft and hard FM contracts
• Oversee and ensure delivery of planned maintenance schedules and reactive maintenance in line with SLA’s
• Manage regional, multi-site operational delivery ensuring consistent service performance and compliance
• Reviewing, creating and issuing risk assessments, method statements and permits
• Outline safe operational procedures which identify and consider all relevant hazards
• Ensure working practices are safe and comply with legislation
• Liaising with our safety, environment and compliance (SEC) team to ensure all works are delivered safely, compliantly, and with the environment in mind.
• Liaising and working with clients to maintain 100% compliance on our sites at all times
• Supporting the production and provision of reports
• Working with the wider FM Team to provide an exemplary service
• Day to day operational support to site-based staff
• Keep the CAFM system updated ensuring tasks are closed out correctly and site information is maintained
• Carrying out audits across the estate as requested
• Attendance at operational and contractual meetings as required
• Formulating quotations for remedial works and new installations, including being responsible for all quotations sent to clients
• Sub-contractor performance management, supporting issuing new contracts and selecting new sub-contractors
• Travel to sites where required to fulfil operational duties and support contract delivery, stakeholder engagement and service assurance

Skills and Attributes

As well as exhibiting the Sewell Behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Team and Customer Focused, with a mentality of Doing the Right Thing, the successful person will have the following:

Essential

• Preven knowledge and experience working within a Facilities Manager or similar role
• A strong understanding of buildings and compliance requirements
• A satisfactory Enhanced DBS (criminal background) check
• Full Driving License, valid in the UK
• Knowledge and understanding of budgeting, quoting and ordering
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise a variety of tasks
• Good knowledge of Health and Safety practices and processes
• Excellent levels of computer literacy and be comfortable with Microsoft packages (in particular Outlook, Word & Excel)
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to liaise with user groups and subcontractors
• The ability to work as a team member in a busy and fast paced working environment
• Excellent levels of computer literacy and be comfortable with Microsoft packages (in particular Outlook, Word & Excel).
• The ability to work as a team member in a busy and fast paced working environment.

Desirable

• Hold IWFM or Facilities Management relevant academic qualifications, or hold Business or Management formal qualifications
• Hold NEBOSH General Certificate or similar equivalent
• Previous experience in managing a team
• Previous experience in organising and planning works

Sewell is an equal opportunities employer, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services. As a committed safe employer, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be carried out for the successful candidate of this role.

• Competitive, dependent on experience
• Annual Bonus Opportunity
• 25 holiday days, plus bank holidays
• Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates, learn more here: Employee Ownership - Sewell Group (sewell-group.co.uk)
• Auto Enrolment pension
• High Street & Retail discount schemes
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Technology Scheme
• Plus more in our flexible reward & benefits offer, further information available from our People Team, [email protected].