Facilities Manager

Miller’s Recruitment; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Facilities Manager, where you will lead a dedicated team to ensure the smooth operation of multiple facilities. This role involves implementing processes, managing maintenance, and striving for excellence in service delivery. You will be responsible for the overall success of the facilities department, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations while optimizing operational efficiency. With a commitment to employee welfare and a collaborative work environment, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in a well-established organization that values its people.

Benefits

Job Specific Uniform

Company Pension

32 Holidays per year

Company wide fun days

Regular staff treats

Qualifications

• Experience managing small maintenance teams or project management.
• Strong analytical skills using Microsoft Excel.

Responsibilities

• Manage energy usage and ensure cleanliness of buildings.
• Implement processes and maintain high standards across facilities.

Skills

Team Management

Data Analysis

Attention to Detail

Problem Solving

Organizational Skills

Education

Experience in Facilities Management

Project Management Experience

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Millers Vanguard are looking for a highly motivated and experienced facilities manager to manage our small in-house facilities team. They will look to implement process and control spend across our 4 buildings whilst also developing our own FM structure.

You will proactively implement and manage processes and routines alongside taking the lead in reacting swiftly and efficiently to any operational matters that arise.

You will be working closely with the operations manager to ensure that the maintenance function is run smoothly and efficiently, whilst identifying any changes which can be made to improve process. Therefore, you will be responsible for the overall success of the department with full accountability for performance against KPI’s as well as working to agreed budgets.

The candidate will be highly motivated and organised, whilst also being able to work autonomously, striving for the highest standards possible for Millers Vanguard.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Management and analysis of energy usage within Millers Vanguard's buildings.
2. Process implementation – ensuring that cleaning schedules are audited.
3. Daily check of the site to ensure cleanliness of our buildings and surrounding landscaping.
4. Proactive maintenance of all Millers Vanguard's 4 buildings providing a quarterly dilapidation of all buildings.
5. Periodic audits of all Millers Vanguard's facilities processes to ensure that standards are being met & that frequencies of cleans are correct.
6. PPM – all regulatory Health and safety PPMs are completed, recorded, and reported including Fire, lighting, alarms, signage.
7. Liaison with 3rd party contractors of all maintenance trades (Building, electrical etc.).
8. The ability to analyse and control FM spend ranging from building maintenance, whilst liaising with our own in-house purchasing department.
9. Ability to complete general 'handyman' tasks.
10. Responsibility for all of Millers Vanguard's in-house gardening, cleaning & security teams.
11. Responsible for the meticulous standards of our buildings & gardens.
12. Responsible for managing a team of cleaners, gardeners, and security staff.
13. Effective management of staff timesheets.
14. You will be expected to be on call out of hours in case of emergencies.

Company Information

Who are we?
Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our people
Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments:

• New (2021) Technical response centre.
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility.
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet.

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Ideal Candidate:

1. Experience of managing small maintenance teams or project management experience.
2. The ability to use Microsoft Excel to analyse data.
3. A facilities & maintenance background (building maintenance and electrical background desirable).
4. Experience of workflow & shift planning across multiple disciplines (Building, cleaning, electrical).
5. A keen eye for detail and organisation.

Why Join Us

• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles.
• Company wide fun days and charity events.
• Company Pension.
• 32 Holidays per year.
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families.

Working Hours: Monday – Friday 8.00am – 17.00pm