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Assistant Facilities Manager

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Job Introduction

Are you looking to progress your facilities management career?

Reporting to the Glasgow Facilities Services Manager, the Assistant Facilities Services Manager will be responsible for assisting in the front line management of the day to day delivery of FM services to the client. This will encompass the management of site based in-house and outsourced resources to deliver both hard and soft services.

This is an exciting role that will see you utilising your skills and experience.

 

Role Responsibility

  • Post includes responsibility for FM services at client site in Bellshill, Glasgow
  • Occasional site visits and attendance at FM team meetings will involve travel and on occasions and overnight stay
  • Motivate site based team achieving operational excellence through team performance.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with suppliers, landlord’s agents, customer representatives.
  • Delivery of results against KPI’s.
  • Demonstrable control of budgets and clear reporting.
  • Quality and performance management of all services including monthly performance reporting and maintenance of the site document registry.
  • Meeting KPI’s for hard and soft services.
  • Robust and regularly tested emergency procedures.
  • Effective relationships with key stakeholders with regular communication and formal review meetings.
  • Post may require support to the client’s non pool sites at Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Stockton on Tees and Belfast.
  • Occasional weekend site attendance in Glasgow may be required. 

The Ideal Candidate

Management Experience

  • Sufficient and relevant previous management experience in a corporate facilities management delivery environment as either the client or service provider.
  • Experience of having operational and staff management responsibility.
  • Knowledge, understanding and interest in the principles of facilities management.

Managing Relationships

  • Demonstrable experience of interfacing with suppliers and landlords agents to deliver results as measured against established KPI’s or issue resolution.

Finance & Commercial Management

  • Demonstrable experience in controlling costs.
  • Experience and knowledge of the management of purchasing and invoicing processes.
  • Experience of managing 3rd party budgets.
  • Quality Safety and Environment (QSE)
  • Demonstrable knowledge of existing Health and Safety legislation and Regulations and their applicability to facilities management.
  • Experience and knowledge of conducting risk assessments and ensuring relevant precautions are implemented to ensure statutory compliance and best practice.

Performance Management and Contract Governance

  • Demonstrable experience of the day to day successful delivery of high calibre facilities management services in a corporate environment.
  • Experience and knowledge of managing delivery performance of in-house and out-sourced services to agreed service levels.
  • Knowledge and capability to report on and analyse performance results, creating and implementing corrective action plans where required.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process

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