Graduate Asset and Costing Manager

Job Introduction

Are you a recent Engineering/Quantity Surveyor graduate looking for your first opportunity to grow and develop within a thriving and supportive healthcare Hard FM environment? This is a great opportunity as our strategy can be shaped around you! Sodexo Healthcare are currently looking to recruit an Asset and Costing Manager. This is a graduate role ideally suited to an ambitious candidate wanting to develop as an Asset Manager within our Healthcare Hard FM segment and to also develop experience of supporting business development for our technical delivery. The role will be home base with travel to sites. The Asset and Costing manager will be responsible for supporting the delivery of asset management within the healthcare segment across existing sites and potential new business.  You will be focused on asset and costing activity with supplementary duties as the workload permits.  

Sodexo Healthcare is a leading provider of services to the NHS and private healthcare organisations in England. We provide quality of life services that improve patient and staff experience, raise standards and deliver financial benefits to our clients. We help to enhance the patient environment (including patient dining, cleaning/housekeeping, retail services), provide clinical support (equipment sterilisation) and manage technical estates teams (estates management, asset management, land maintenance and energy management).

Role Responsibility

• Delivery of a strategic asset management plan for Healthcare segment (existing sites) 
• Provide data analysis of existing asset data to enable operational improvements
• Gain an understanding of costing and surveying process for technical facilities management 
• Deliver digital solutions for management of building information data (e.g. schematics, drawings)
• Support business development opportunities by completing site surveying, data analysis and generating solutions for engineering maintenance delivery
• Be a visible and approachable advisor to the operational Hard FM healthcare business.
• Support delivery of the asset management plan via a programme of site asset surveying and verification activities and due diligence activity for business development opportunities
• Ensure an effective costing model is in place, and in use, for business development opportunities 
• Implement digital solutions to support effective management of building information data
• Support the Healthcare Compliance and Improvement team with monitoring compliance of asset management against contractual obligations. 

The Ideal Candidate

• This is a development role for an ambitious engineer/ quantity surveyor (QS) graduate to gain experience within complex Healthcare facilities management environments
• Preferably a Quantity Surveying degree or an Engineering degree
• Preferably practical understanding of engineering in a healthcare environment 
• Understanding of digital building management tools, e.g. AutoCAD
• Exceptional eye for detail and ability to analyse complex building information data
• Ability to organise workloads and to prioritise effectively 
• Full UK driving licence
• IT Skills – Good working knowledge of MS Office, including:

Word – create and edit documents and reports

Excel – able to use data analysis tools

CAD – desirable 

Package Description

To £22,000 + great benefits

Remote - North West England ideal or London; you must be prepared to travel and conduct visits for Sodexo Healthcare sites in the UK

Permanent

Work Pattern - 40hrs pw

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more!

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.