Assistant Facilities Manager

BRC Jobs; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

BRC Jobs is seeking an Assistant Facilities Manager to deliver proactive and reactive FM services across our Berkshire workplaces. You will ensure safe operations, manage inspections, and coordinate with central services to keep sites compliant and productive.

The role emphasizes safety, business continuity, and stakeholder communication, with responsibilities spanning audits, security, helpdesk support, and contract management.

Responsibilities

• Inspect buildings weekly and monthly to ensure safety and compliance, including stock levels.
• Own actions from inspections or service requests, create plans, coordinate works and communicate progress to stakeholders.
• Safeguard the safety and wellbeing of colleagues, collaborating with central services.
• Coordinate annual audits (Fire Risk Assessments, H&S) and implement recommendations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve queries via the Workplace Solutions Helpdesk, escalating as required.
• Contribute to incident response and Business Continuity activities to minimise customer impact.
• Manage building security including opening/closing, keyholder training, and OO H incident coordination.
• Oversee facilities contracts as primary contact and conduct regular review meetings.
• Line manage caretakers and ensure task completion and adherence to checklists.

Skills

Facilities management

Health and safety

Job description

Are you an Assistant Facilities Manager seeking your next contract in the Berkshire area?
My client has an immediate opportunity for an Assistant Facilities Manager to provide proactive and reactive FM services for their workplaces.
The successful applicant will deliver an efficient facilities service including building management, logistics and colleague support.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for building inspections (weekly and monthly). Ensuring a safe and compliant workplace, including building fabric, colleague equipment and proactively monitoring the condition of workplaces. Maintain workplace solutions stock levels.
• Take ownership of actions from building inspections or service requests and create action plans, including full resolution, or escalation by exception, commissioning any necessary works and communicating to stakeholders.
• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of people working within our workplaces, working with other central services colleagues to deliver consistently and collaboratively.
• Enable the regular occurrence of annual audits (i.e. Fire Risk Assessments, H&S audits), by providing access to sites and relevant documentation. Implementing any recommendations, commissioning necessary works and reporting progress.
• Troubleshoot, triage and resolve calls, queries and requests via the Workplace Solutions Helpdesk, complying with SLAs. Escalate to third parties as appropriate.
• Contribute to any incident response, supporting with Business Continuity activity, working to minimise any impact on our customers.
• Responsible for the security of the buildings, including opening/closing, training of keyholders from wider departments and OOH incident coordination in relation to the corporate estate.
• Be responsible for specific facilities services contract management, acting as a primary point of contact, understanding contract requirements, holding regular contract review meetings, escalating issues by exception.
• Line manage caretakers, including undertaking Great Conversations, ensuring completion of tasks and checklists.