Estates Manager

GPSkal Assessoria e Projetos; Lancaster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Facilities Estate Manager to join their growing team. This role involves delivering integrated facilities management services within a prestigious corporate environment, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations, and overseeing both hard and soft services. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication and people management skills, along with a technical background in facilities management. If you are self-motivated, adaptable, and driven to achieve outstanding results, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

25 days plus BH

Life assurance

Single cover medical

Employee discounts via Perkbox

Cycle to work

Access to a virtual GP

Health & wellbeing app

Training & Development

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in property and facilities management.
• Technical background in hard and soft services.

Responsibilities

• Deliver IFM services in a corporate environment.
• Oversee hard and soft services and maintenance.

Skills

Communication Skills

Facilities Management Experience

People Management Skills

Health and Safety Knowledge

Organizational Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Adaptability

Decision-Making Skills

Education

IWFM Accreditation

IOSH or NEBOSH Qualifications

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

MS Outlook

MS PowerPoint

Job description

Facilities Estate Manager (Hard Services Bias)

Location – Bedfordshire, MK44 1LQ

Hours – Monday – Friday, 08:00 – 16:30

• 25 days plus BH
• Life assurance
• Single cover medical
• Employee discounts via Perkbox
• Cycle to work
• Access to a virtual GP and a health & wellbeing app
• Training & Development

Are you dedicated to delivering great service and want to join a growing company that looks after its people? Have you got skills and experience in a similar role with a customer focused mind-set? If so then we have got the role for you.

In this role you’ll deliver IFM services within a corporate/office environment at a prestigious science park in Colworth, Bedfordshire. This will include H&S, compliance, statutory, contractual and company regulations and process. You will also oversee hard and soft services, building/estate maintenance and managed service providers. As our Facilities / Estate manager you will effectively lead a team to ensure our client receives a seamless and professional service.

You will have a technical background with experience from a front line role.

As Facilities / Estate Manager you will ensure exemplary standards of customer service delivery. You will lead by example and ensure that team building, staff morale and fostering great relationships are at the forefront of everything you do. Having previous experience of operating and delivering hard and soft FM in a multi tenanted environment.

Our Ideal candidate will need to have:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Sound FM experience, ideally gained in a client lead environment
• Either tool trained experience or sound understanding of hard services
• Excellent people management skills
• A continuous personal development mindset
• Able to deal effectively with change
• A sound understanding of safety, health and environment
• An innovative approach and always seeking to do things better
• The ability to make sound business focused decisions
• Highly organised and able to deliver in a high pressure environment
• Self-motivated and driven to achieve outstanding results
• Intermediate working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Flexibility and willingness to cover all sites in the region
• Full UK driving licence

You will already have extensive experience in property and facilities management gained within a commercial environment, coupled with a technical/hard/soft services background. It would be great if you have IWFM accreditation or hold similar FM qualifications, and hold IOSH or NEBOSH qualifications.

You will work Monday to Friday 40 hours per week, however you will need to be flexible to meet the requirements of the role which will include travel and very occasional overnight stays. You will have access to Apleona employee benefits that will be available to you as soon as you start.

Apleona is an equal opportunities employer who delivers facilities management services to clients all over the UK and with vacancies in your area this is a great time to join our teams.

If this sounds like a job for you then click on the apply button and we’ll start the process and if you’re a good match we’ll be in touch to discuss the next steps.