Assistant Facilities Manager – Crown Bevcan

Job Introduction

A newly created role, as Assistant Facilities Manager you will support and report in to the onsite Facilities Manager at our valued client's site - Crown Bevcan.

Crown has a long history of leading the industry with innovative packaging technology. From the time their founder William Painter invented the bottle cap to the ground-breaking SuperEnd™ beverage ends to today's cutting edge shaping technology, Crown has led the way.

You will assist in leading a team of 42 staff & front line management of the day-to-day delivery of FM services in the prestige & corporate Service segment.

This will encompass all aspects of FM included within the agreed SLAs including the management of in-house and outsourced resources to deliver both hard and soft services. This includes the effective management and delivery of planned preventative maintenance programs, responding to the ‘reactive’ needs of the client, to ensure continuous improvement and financial performance within agreed budgets.

The Assistant Facilities Manager will assist in the financial responsibility for performance of the contract and take an active role in ensuring KPI’s are achieved.

Role Responsibility

• Assisting in leading a team of 42 employees on site to deliver both hard and soft services.
• Encouraging, motivating & developing site based teams, monitoring progress, undertaking performance reviews
• Building solid relationship with Crown Bevcan client to ensure Sodexo’s interests are protected, establishing key relationships with Contract Representatives.
• Attending client meetings to monitor and improve service delivery.
• Ensuring the contract is delivered to agreed budgetary parameters and managing monthly financial commitment, and maximise revenues and optimise overall expenditure across the contract.
• Ensuring that all aspects of service outputs are delivered to comply with the Operating Contract, Statutory legislation and good working practice at all times to ensure that H&S management obligations are not compromised in respect of the delivery of all FM services.
• Also ensuring that works are delivered in a timely manner to achieve agreed KPI’s, along with effectively managing in-house and outsourced resources to deliver
• Working with Commercial and Procurement Teams to ensure that all works are undertaken by the most cost effective manner using either self delivery or suppliers.
• Building effective working relationship and managing Service Partners and suppliers in conjunction with contract documents and client requirements.
• Quality and performance management of all services including monthly performance reporting, both internally and externally, and maintenance of the site document registry.
• Maintaining FM management systems for site based operations to ensure that jobs are appropriately logged and reported.
• Ensuring the cultivation of innovation and best practice and share across the wider business unit.

The Ideal Candidate

• Customer focused with previous experience of management of FM Contracts
• Proven experinece of team leadership
• Effective coaching and influencing skills
• Good knowledge of Catering, Cleaning operations - previous experience as Chef highly desirable
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with the mental agility to ‘think on feet’ and provide convincing practical solutions
• Commercial acumen with strong analytical skills with a strong bias towards P&L financial management
• Intelligent approach to performance monitoring / management (contract, delivery and team)
• Well developed co-ordination skills
• Proficient IT skills, including Excel, Word & Microsoft office
• Experience of working to ISO 9001 or similar quality system
• Understanding of H&S best practice/leglisation
• Must satisfy an enhanced CRB check
• Available to respond to out of normal hours emergency situations

Desirable

• Professional Member of BIFM
• Preferably NEBOSH Qualified

Package Description

Band A

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