Facilities Manager

ameygroupi; Northampton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Facilities Manager to lead their Northampton schools account. This exciting role involves overseeing a diverse team, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations, and managing facilities maintenance across multiple locations. The successful candidate will enjoy a supportive work environment that values flexibility and career development. With a commitment to sustainability and community engagement, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact while enjoying a range of benefits tailored to support your professional growth and work-life balance. Apply today and be part of a team that truly makes a difference!

Benefits

Career Development

Generous Pension Scheme

Flexible Benefits Scheme

Online Voucher Portal for Discounts

Community Involvement Days

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Facilities Management and compliance.
• Strong knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and policies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 50 members across 43 schools, ensuring compliance.
• Oversee daily operations and strategic management of facilities.

Skills

People Management

Client Relationship Management

Health & Safety Management

Budgeting and Cost Management

Clear Communication

Education

IWFM Qualification

IOSH Managing Safely

NEBOSH or CITB SMSTS

Job description

We have a fantastic opportunity for a permanent Facilities Manager to join our Northampton school’s account.

This role is based on-site although you will need to hold a UK driving licence to travel to your assigned schools (company car included).

The standard hours of work are 37.5 hours per week. You will be required to be on call one week in every 5.

The Northampton Schools account encompasses 43 schools, comprising a mixture of primary and secondary institutions. The successful candidate will lead a team of approximately 50 members, with 8 direct reports. We are seeking a candidate with extensive experience in people management, client relationship management, and health & safety management. Additionally, having a qualification from the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM) is highly desirable.

Work-life balance and flexibility are key for our success. We empower our people to make choices that are right for them, with hybrid, part-time and flexible work patterns. And with a network of offices across the UK, we’re open to discussing working options that suit you.

You will be responsible for:

• Ensure that all staff are aware of and comply with the Health and Safety Policy.
• Achieve and maintain Statutory and Mandatory Compliance.
• Ensure all corporate policies and procedures are implemented and complied with.
• Carry out audits and spot checks to confirm service delivery by both direct employees and sub-contractors is of the required quality.
• Carry out first line management duties with staff including disciplinary and employment processes.
• To oversee the day to day operation and strategic management of the Estate/building on behalf of the Client.
• Ensure that all hazards are identified and that suitable and sufficient risk assessments are completed to reduce or eliminate risk.
• Ensure that KPIs are achieved and that staff are aware of their role in service delivery.
• Update the Environmental Management System for site and ensure that measures to reduce the risk to the environment are adhered to.
• Generate revenue through additional works and monitor the P & L for site.
• This role will also support both local and business zero carbon programmes, working towards zero carbon in a strategic and lean manner as and where it is appropriate.
• Responsible for ensuring H&S standards are achieved across the contract.

What makes this role unique is you will be responsible for all Facilities Maintenance of the site while managing each team member as an individual.

We want to hear from you if you have/are:

• FM Experience is essential.
• IWFM Qualification is desirable.
• Customer relationship management.
• Clear and sensitive communication style, likely to be of a technical nature.
• Experience of first line management.
• Sound knowledge of service delivery and KPIs.
• Demonstrable experience of budgeting and managing costs.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and implementation of policies.
• Full UK Driving licence is required.
• Sound knowledge of Statutory and Mandatory Compliance with experience of preparing for external audits.

Ideally you will be qualified in IOSH Managing Safely with experience of the Facilities Management marketplace.

In addition to this, it would be desirable if you are qualified in NEBOSH or CITB SMSTS to help you hit the ground running, although this is not essential as we will provide you with the required development you need to bring you up to speed.

What we can offer you:

When you join us, we can offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you through all life’s ups and downs. It’s the reason why Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers and we have a competitive reward and benefits program.

• Career Development - Exceptional development and progression plan.
• Pension – Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to.
• Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle to work scheme, charity giving and gym membership.
• Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in. It includes healthcare, free GP service, dental vouchers.
• Social Value - You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives.

We embrace difference and support individuals to work in ways that work best for them.

We are committed to working sustainably and by working in partnership with the communities we serve, so people and the planet are protected.

Who is Amey?

• We are at the heart of modern Britain, helping the economy to grow by designing, maintaining and transforming the nation’s strategic assets.
• Our 11,000 people are behind the critical services the country relies on every day.
• Our unique engineering and operations experience, together with data driven insight from our consulting business, delivers better results for our clients.
• We are trusted partners of Government – both national and local – managing assets and complex projects that are vital to the sustainable growth of the country.

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. Please contact our recruitment team at [e-mail] to discuss any access needs, reasonable adjustments or additional support that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the closing date should we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Apply today – We are excited to hear from you!