Assistant Facilities Services Manager

Job Introduction

Sodexo Corporate Services are recruiting an Assistant Facilities Manager to join our team on our client site in Glasgow. 

We are responsible for the delivery of FM services to the consolidated offices.

You will support the Facilities Services Manager and 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 includes the effective delivery and monitoring of planned preventative maintenance programs, contract management for outsourced provisions and responding to the ‘reactive’ needs of the customers.

Role Responsibility

• Motivated site based team achieving operational excellence through team performance.
• Developed & successful relationships with suppliers, landlord’s agents, customer representatives.
• Delivering 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.
• Full statutory compliance.
• Robust and regularly tested emergency procedures.
• Effective relationships with key stakeholders with regular communication and formal review meetings.
   

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Sufficient and relevant previous management experience in a corporate facilities management delivery environment as either the client or service provider.
• Knowledge, understanding and interest in the principles of facilities management.
• Demonstrable experience of interfacing with suppliers and landlords agents to deliver results as measured against established KPI’s or issue resolution.
• Demonstrable experience in controlling costs.
• Experience and knowledge of the management of purchasing and invoicing processes.
• Experience of managing 3rd party budgets.
• 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.
• 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.

Desirable

• IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent
• FM qualification - BIFM or equivalent

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