Facilities Manager
Job Introduction
Due to an exciting internal move a great opportunity has opened for an experienced Facilities Manager with a technical bias to join our team of about 65 on our client’s coffee manufacturing site in Banbury.
It is a full IFM delivery site and you will have a FM Support Manager, Soft Services Support Manager, Chef Manager, Lead Site engineer and a Security Supervisor reporting to you. This role will be suited to you if you are a “hands-on” manager with a good technical background, great communication skills on all levels and experience in leading small-scale projects. All in all – you need to be one to “make things happen”. Focus on compliance and change management skills will earn you some very serious brownie points.
So, what is on offer? A salary up to £50k, a bonus, flexible benefits fund along with retailer discounts and all other good stuff. And that is a small perk in comparison to having an amazing team (even if we do say so ourselves!)
Role Responsibility
- Responsible for the day to day operation of the Banbury site, and to ensure full working knowledge of the areas and buildings within the Sodexo responsibility at the site.
- Ensure Health and Safety compliance with policies, systems and procedures in place for- SOP’s, Risk assessments, Safe systems of work, Control of contractors, Site induction programme, Tool box talks, permit to work systems
- Budget responsibility
- Ensure that the site is always statutory and mandatory (contractually) compliant for services delivered within scope, and robust and rigorous means of recording this are maintained.
- Interact with customers and take positive action in order to ensure that Sodexo are the supplier of choice for all services within our scope of offering, particularly in relation to FM and project related Opportunities.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant sections of the Quality Assurance Audit and to complete routine audits at required frequency, including Stop Shift Audits and Value for Money (VFM) Audits.
The Ideal Candidate
- Proven track record in Facilities Management
- Technical background
- Excellent communication skills
- Change management skills
- Profit & Loss budget management experience
- Project management experience
- Leadership skills
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
