Facilities Manager

Job Introduction

Are you an IFM manager with experience managing Profit & Loss accounts in excess of €1.5m? Do you have a good financial sense and excellent people management skills? We want to hear from you!

We are looking for a highly experienced Facilities Manager, well versed in both – soft and technical services to look after our prestigious client’s manufacturing site in Limerick. Main services we provide on site are Catering, Cleaning and Security. You will have a total team of 91 on site with 4 direct reports.

We offer a great team, great opportunities of development and career progression, competitive salary and a bonus.

Role Responsibility

• Responsible for all operational problem resolution and issue escalation.
• Ensure forecasts are completed and track performance against budget taking appropriate actions to manage P&L in line with contract to maximise profit and control of costs.
• Measure KPI’s and service standards against agreed and obligated levels.
• Be an informed and authoritative point of contact for the key stakeholders at site to address any performance or operational issues.
• Full understanding of contractual MSA, LSA, guiding principles applicable to site under new Vested Contract agreement and delivery of content to site.
• Management of Health, Safety and Environmental Legislation relating to the building portfolio ensuring that: all statutory requirements and Sodexo policies and process are met; all associated records are maintained up to date; and with all relevant staff are trained and aware in its requirements and operation. In addition to foster and set goals that drive the QEHS culture for staff towards proactive rather than reactive systems.
• To work collaboratively with all central teams/SME’s to ensure a standardised, consistent and compliant approach is implemented in all service lines across all sites within micro region whilst delivering a fully compliant operation to our client.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Proven experience in managing large site with multi-disciplined teams.
• Exceptional Client relationship management skills
• Development of commercially viable solutions based on rigorous techniques to understand Client and contractual needs.
• Ability to manage multiple workloads and shifting priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Ability to interpret and utilise complex and varied financial and commercial information.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with customers, clients and employees at all levels.
• Ability to achieve set standards and operate to performance criteria; for example, health and safety, hygiene.
• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative within a team environment.
• Proven track record of initiating and leading demanding business change programmes.
• Excellent communication, negotiating, influencing and facilitating skills.
• Challenges the status-quo, innovative, willingness and with a ‘can do & improve’ attitude.

Desirable

• Experience of Hard and Soft FM contracts.
• Proven experience in managing P&L accounts in excess of €1.5m.
• Facilities, Engineering, Technical or Business qualification.
• Experience in a pharmaceutical industry or large Blue Chip company.

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