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Deputy Facilities Manager

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Job Introduction

We are currently recruiting for a Deputy Facilities Manager to join our team at Exeter Crown and County Court on a 12 months fixed term contract.

We are looking for an experienced Business/Service Manager with the ability to analyse and resolve problems, develop opportunities and implement innovate solutions. You will deliver the day to day facilities management operation within budget and have project management experience.

Role Responsibility

  • Management of Health, Safety and Environmental legislation relating to the building portfolio ensuring the statutory requirements are met and all records maintained
  • Risk management – minimise risk and maintain profitability
  • Strategic and technical support by offering professional advice to customers, peers and teams
  • Co-ordinate and direct all activities within the assigned areas
  • Manage and control the services to the agreed specification and to the agreed performance, qualitative and financial targets
  • Check and review the work of contractors and in house teams
  • Look for and implement opportunities to drive Sodexo revenue and labour productivity in your units
  • Plan and check that marketing initiatives are implemented.

People Management

  • Involved in the recruitment and induction of new members of the team
  • Develop your team and ensure succession planning
  • Measure the performance of your team by giving feedback and reviewing and completing appraisals and manage poor performance

Client Services

  • Ensure you deliver the operation to the service standards agreed in the contract with the client
  • Attend and produce monthly formal review with the client
  • Implement Clients for Life processes in your unit
  • Nurture client relationships 

Finance

  • Complete the unit budgets and forecast
  • Protect the company’s profit by delivering your Sodexo budget each month
  • Generate the billing back up and maintain high quality records
  • Ensure cash, stock, debt and assets are properly controlled

Business Improvement

  • Provide feedback on how performance can be improved
  • Networking – keep appraised of best practise within the industry by maintaining contact with professional bodies in other market sectors
  • Responsible for driving continuous improvement
  • Identify opportunities for organic growth and new business

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

  • Strong level of literacy and numeracy experience in budget management report writing, business cases, monthly reports
  • Experienced Business/Service Manager who has operated in a multi-disciplined environment
  • Experience of managing an overall budget with diverse functional components: IT, life cycle, contracts
  • Highly effective communication and interpersonal skills – manage external clients/customer/multi-stakeholders
  • Ability to analyse and resolve problems, develop opportunities and implement innovate solutions/approaches
  • Able to demonstrate personal self-development and development of a team
  • Demonstration of high performing team work, implementing initiatives and working on own judgement and decisions
  • Change management and performance management experience
  • M&E bias
  • Project management

Desirable

  • IOSH
  • RIPHH/CIEH
  • If IOSH and RIPHH/CIEH are not held, you would need to attend training courses to ensure that these are achieved
  • SIA Licence

Package Description

40 hours per week - £30,000 per annum 

12 months fixed term contract

Working hours 8am to 5pm 

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.

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.

Sodexo Justice Services delivers custodial and community rehabilitation services that challenge offending behaviour, protect the public and offer individuals the opportunity to change their lives for the better. We deliver the total operation of five prisons within England, Scotland and Wales and own six Community Rehabilitation Companies in partnership with crime reduction charity Nacro.

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