Facilities Manager

CBRE; Brighton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Facilities Manager to lead and develop a defined contract in Brighton. This role involves ensuring operational excellence, financial management, and compliance with health and safety standards. You will be responsible for fostering a positive work environment while driving team performance and client satisfaction. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a global leader in integrated facilities management, where your expertise will contribute to enhancing workplace efficiency and client relationships. If you are a proactive leader with a passion for facilities management, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in M&E building maintenance is essential.
• Demonstrated management experience required.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and ensure contractual commitments are met.
• Ensure a safe working environment in accordance with health and safety policies.

Skills

Good communication skills

IT literacy (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Report writing

Education

English and Maths GCSE A to C grade

Professional trade qualifications

IOSH Health & Safety qualification

Job description

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Brighton - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions is a leading global provider of integrated facilities and corporate real estate management. We are recruiting a Facilities Manager to join our Team in Brighton.

Purpose of The Job


Providing leadership, management, and development of a defined contract, ensuring financial, and operational commitments are met and exceeded.

Key Responsibilities

• To provide leadership and ensure that contractual commitments are met and exceeded.
• Ensuring business policies and processes are effectively communicated and implemented within the contract.
• Ensure the provision of a healthy and safe working environment in accordance with clients and company health and safety policy and that CBRE services and subcontractors activities adhere to those policies.
• Play an active role as a change agent driving hospitality led FM through the service delivery model.
• Ensure contracts are staffed by fully competent teams, ensuring post holders are fully competent, and that effective succession planning arrangements are in place.
• Ensuring site Health and safety standards are met and a safe working environment is upheld by all teams
• Working with other operational managers to ensure the collaborative development of the business, effective team working, and support to colleagues.
• Development of contract financial plans for cost management, reduction of WIP, debt, cost reduction and contract growth, and ensure that these are met and exceeded.
• Ensure appropriate control systems to ensure statutory, policy and contractual commitments are met.
• Ensuring a customer focus within all areas of operational activities, and that effective relationships are maintained with key client contacts.
• Promoting and maintaining the core Values of CBRE.
• Provision of leadership and guidance, advice, coaching and direct support, where required to deliver best practice selection, training, assessment and recognition/reward.
• Delivering effective business communication through advice, review, leadership and direct contribution to management and team meetings, briefings, consultation forums, correspondence, publicity, monthly and ad-hoc reporting and other publications, as appropriate.
• Provide a learning environment, and appropriate training and development planning. Ensure basic training needs are delivered, employees are fully competent to undertake their roles, and can reach their full future potential.
  
  

Accountabilities

• Reporting to Campus General Manager
• Accountability to the CBRE functional heads, as appropriate.
• Accountable day-to-day to the relevant client contacts.
• Line management responsibility for a contract team and indirectly for relevant sub-contractors.
• Financial responsibility for the cost commitments for the contract.
  
  

Person Specification


Education

• A good basic education is essential
• English and Maths GCSE A to C grade.
• Professional trade qualifications, leadership experience
• IOSH as a minimum H&S qualification
  
  

Experience

• Experience working within M&E building maintenance.
• Demonstrate experience & understanding of current Health & Safety.
• Demonstrate management experience
  
  

Skills

• Good communication skills essential, both verbal and written
• A level of IT literacy – Word, Excel, Outlook, Client online systems.
• Report writing.
  
  

Attributes

• Smart & presentable.
• Ability to communicate effectively with clients on behalf of CBRE.
• Attendance at management and Client meetings as required
• Undertake additional training as required
• Flexible, adaptable team player with a positive “can do attitude”
• Ability to work under pressure and support the team
• Effective personal time management essential
• Ability to see the bigger picture and close out problems
  
  

Leadership

• Strong supervision capabilities
• Ability to be self-motivating
• Ability to motivate and lead a small team
  
  

Problem Solving & Analysis

• Develops solutions in agreement with others to reactive problems
• Plan resource allocations effectively
• Recognises correct information value to resolve operational CBRE issues.
• Quickly identify operational anomalies.
  
  

Commercial Awareness

• Responds positively and reliably to customer requests.
• Understands client’s business importance.
• Demonstrates understanding of the impact of own activity.
• Commercial and Financial awareness of client environment.
  
  

Customer Satisfaction

• A high-level focus on the achievement of total customer satisfaction
• A high level of flexibility and a positive attitude to innovation and change.
• Commitment to the ongoing success of the business.
  
  

About CBRE Global Workplace Solutions


As one of CBRE’s core global businesses, Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) provides end-to-end services to occupier clients across the entire lifecycle of a building. Our teams help companies improve their operations and reduce costs, through expert facilities management, project management, real estate and energy and sustainability services. Our dedicated teams work across all industries, and support clients ranging from global Fortune 500 companies to single, iconic buildings.

CBRE Group, Inc. is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with 2019 revenues of $23.9 billion and more than 100,000 employees (excluding affiliate offices). CBRE has been included on the Fortune 500 since 2008, ranking #128 in 2020. It also has been voted the industry’s top brand by the Lipsey Company for 19 consecutive years, and has been named one of Fortune’s “Most Admired Companies” for eight years in a row, including being ranked number one in the real estate sector in 2020, for the second consecutive year. Its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “CBRE.”

Application Process


Your application will be reviewed by our Talent Resourcing Team and you will be contacted if you have been successful in being short listed for the role.

No agencies please.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

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