Our client is looking for an experienced facilities Manager who has experience in managing both soft and hard maintenance engineeers.
You will be responsible for managing our Housekeeping and Facilities teams to maintain a well-kept, safe, secure, compliant, and efficient environment across a cluster of properties, with support from the Team Leaders. This includes taking ownership of planned and reactive maintenance and housekeeping, and ensuring your team provide our students with a world-class and responsive service.
You will be able to:
- Articulate and advocate the organisations vision and strategic plans to your team to help deliver at a local level
- Take responsibility for the delivery of the planned maintenance strategy within your local cluster of properties
- Take responsibility for ensuring compliance with all relevant Health and Safety assessments and monitoring, ensuring compliance across the cluster
- Apply a consistent set of practices to identify team performance and gaps, build core competencies and improve overall employee performance
- Manage your own and your team`s workload and pressure, and adapt to evolving situations by seeking alternative approaches.
- Assist the facilities engineering team in keeping our properties in excellent condition.
- Conduct regular building checks to make sure that our buildings are clean, safe, and secure
- Help us deliver on our sustainability strategies to provide net-zero carbon accommodation and create resilient, resource-efficient assets to do so.
What we're looking for in you:
- You will be able to confidently lead your team to maintain exceptional customer service
- You will have experience working within soft or hard facilities management
- You are able to manage the competing demands of compliance and delivering world-class experience for our students
- You remain calm and focussed, even in difficult or pressurised situations
- You are detail-orientated, nothing escapes your eye
- You understand and respect the diversity of others` cultures, beliefs, and backgrounds
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