Facilities Manager

We are currently supporting a Milton Keynes based company with the recruitment of a Facilities Manager, to join their core office administration team. Please note, due to the nature of role, this position is FULLY office based.

Working hours:

• Standard business hours, however, can be flexible (within reason).

Duties:

• To manage and oversee hard services including planned preventative maintenance programmes, reactive repairs, installations and projects.
• Required to keep the site running effectively within budget.
• Oversee and coordinate EHS activity and reporting for the site including accident and near miss investigation and reporting, fit for the future local programmes, fire marshals and first aiders, workplace inspections, new starter inductions, contractor training and updating of safety procedures.
• To co-ordinate with occupational health provider, global and regional safety teams, UK EHS manager and sustainability team.
• Manage through contracted third party all soft services for the site including supplier reviews and contract renewals.
• Lead, manage, and develop the Reception/Administrator team.
• Manage local site interaction and tasks to enable site purchasing requirements to be fulfilled.
• Provide technical input into the generation of site CAPEX requests and direct project management of approved projects.
• To ensure site inventory logs are completed and to be responsible for keeping equipment logs up to date.

Required Skills:

• To have a complete understanding of how a building runs efficiently and effectively whilst meeting all health and safety regulations and any other statutory regulations.
• The ability to demonstrate effective management of all hard and soft services, some provided through third party contractors, all within given budgets and commercial terms.
• Experienced in managing a reception/admin team including: the management of the procurement of facilities.
• Ability to pro-actively lead the preparation and implementation of the maintenance plan and manage all outsourced PPM (preventative planned maintenance).
• Project management skills with capability to lead both small and large projects (including CAPEX proposals).
• Ability to manage and co-ordinate site EHS programmes and activities including health & wellness, and occupational health and sustainability initiatives.

Must Have:

• EHS experience and understanding.
• People management skills.
• The desire and passion to strive for positive results.
• To have strong people skills.
• Timely decision making acumen.
• Experience in direct reporting.

Qualifications Required:

• English and Maths GCSE grade C or above (or equivalent).
• Trade apprenticeship with facilities management experience.
• Accredited Facilities Management training and/or EHS training preferred.