Assistant Facilities Manager in Bracknell

Energy Jobline ZR; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Jobline ZR is seeking an Assistant Facilities Manager to deliver proactive and reactive FM services across our Berkshire workplaces. You will oversee building management, logistics and colleague support, ensuring a safe and well-maintained environment.

Responsibilities include regular inspections, action planning, audits, support for business continuity, incident response, and line management of caretakers, coordinating with central services and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for building inspections (weekly and monthly) ensuring safe, compliant workplaces.
• Create action plans from inspections or service requests and escalate as needed.
• Ensure safety and wellbeing of people in the workplaces.
• Enable annual audits (Fire Risk Assessments, H&S audits) and report progress.
• Troubleshoot and resolve calls via the Workplace Solutions Helpdesk and escalate as appropriate.
• Support Business Continuity and minimize customer impact.
• Oversee security of buildings, including opening/closing and keyholder training.
• Manage facilities services contracts and attend regular review meetings.
• Line manage caretakers and ensure task completion.

Job description

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.