Facilities Manager
Job Introduction
A great opportunity has become available for an experienced Facilities Manager to join our team in Scotland looking after Edinburgh and Annan sites. Looking after a team of circa 20 staff across both sites, you would oversee catering, cleaning, logistics, laundry, vending and handyman service delivery. You would be a hands-on Facilities Manager, commercially astute and with the ability to spot opportunities, capitalise on them and see through minor projects on site. This is a blue collar high-security site.
We offer a salary up to £45,000, a bonus and Sodexo employee benefits along with excellent professional development and progression opportunities within the company.
Role Responsibility
- Drive continuous improvement and operational best practice
- Compliant delivery and performance of contracted services as measured through performance management systems
- Identify opportunities for growth and support with innovations
- Manage and lead the team to deliver excellence to achieve service quality and client satisfaction
- Adhere to all HSE policies and procedures to drive a zero harm safety culture;
- Manage budgets to maintain and achieve financial targets
- Identify cost saving opportunities for the client
- Innovation / initiative implementation
The Ideal Candidate
- Substantial FM Soft Services background
- H&S Qualification and working knowledge of it
- IT literate
- People Management experience
- Ability to interpret and utilise financial information
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven experience of developing profitable relationships for multi-site contracts
- Broad commercial FM experience and business acumen, knowledge of external industry developments & Contract development models
- Experienced in leading company initiatives and change management processes
- Experience in identifying and selling organic business growth
- Strong communication, and negotiation skills
- Excellent client relationship management
- Experience working in a standards/compliance environment
About the Company
In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.
Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.
Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.
Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.
We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.
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
