Facilities Manager (Manchester City Centre - SISTER)

Bruntwood SciTech; Manchester; Hybride; GBP 42 000 - 56 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

28 days holiday

Birthday off

Parking

Volunteer time

Sabbatical up to 12 months

Healthcare cash plan

Life assurance

Up to 8% pension

Discounts & cashback

Enhanced maternity

Learning loans

Résumé du poste

Bruntwood SciTech is seeking a Facilities Manager for the Manchester City Centre portfolio, including Sister, a joint venture with The University of Manchester. This role oversees hard services for a city centre cluster, guiding a seven-member team and coordinating with the Property Manager across multiple sites.

You will ensure safety, functionality, and presentation while driving continuous improvement and providing leadership across a dynamic portfolio in a high-visibility area.

Qualifications

• Experience leading facilities teams in complex commercial properties.
• Ability to mobilise buildings and schedule maintenance with a proactive mindset.
• Strong multi-project management and ability to react quickly to events.
• Proven track record of coordinating contractors and suppliers for optimal outcomes.
• Collaborative working with internal teams to ensure service excellence.

Responsabilités

• Lead and develop a seven-person Facilities Team to deliver first-time fixes.
• Oversee maintenance tasks across multiple buildings, ensuring safety and presentation.
• Collaborate with a Property Manager across twelve buildings.
• Coordinate works on site, review RAMs and permits to work, attend pre-start and progress meetings.
• Manage customer-reported maintenance and ensure Planned Preventative Maintenance checks.
• Oversee compliance and safety using the compliance management system.

Connaissances

Team leadership

Contractor management

Facilities management

Project coordination

Communication

Outils

Compliance management system

Description du poste

Facilities Manager (Manchester City Centre - SISTER)

This role covers a number of buildings in our Bruntwood SciTech portfolio in Manchester City Centre including Sister - a joint venture (JV) between The University of Manchester and Bruntwood SciTech that will transform the University's former north campus into a new neighbourhood and innovation platform.

Based in the heart of Manchester City Centre and set over 4m sq ft, Sister will be recognised internationally as one of the world’s leading applied innovation districts. It will enable resilient and sustainable growth across the city region, creating over 10,000 jobs and delivering over 2m sq ft of office, innovation, retail and leisure spaces, new homes and a variety of nature-led public spaces.

Due to expansion and an elevation of our service we’ve established a new role, Facilities Manager to work within our Operations teams. We’ve successfully taken on 5 new team members to work across Manchester City Centre and we’re now looking for our final team member to complete the portfolio.

You’ll work side by side with our well established Customer Experience Managers who average at around 5+ years tenure in their roles. Managing the whole customer experience of the building collectively. You’ll look after the hard services of a city centre building cluster with a team of Facilities Team Members, maintaining the highest standards.

Here are some links to the spaces you’ll be looking after:

This role is to take ownership of the facilities side, having a voice and providing direction to projects when it comes to mobilising buildings and scheduling/planning maintenance. As well as supporting, managing and developing a team of maintenance/facilities colleagues.

The role is 37.5 hours a week Monday to Friday, typically 8:30am - 5pm or 9am - 5:30pm

What we’re looking for:

• Managing multiple spaces will be important for this role, ideally similar in terms of commercial property.
• This role is managing a team of seven, although managerial experience is important for this role, it’s more around how you manage that’s important to us; we want someone who is supported, keen to help development and compassionate in the way they work. Motivating colleagues and bringing them on the journey of mobilising and maintaining these incredible buildings
• Experience of mobilising buildings will be highly advantageous
• The ability to manage multi-projects, thinking both proactively and reactively to preempt any events but equally react quickly when necessary
• Experience of effectively managing contractors and suppliers, building positive relationships to make sure the best possible outcome is achieved
• Collaborating effectively with internal colleagues.

What you’ll be doing:

• Contributing to the delivery of all maintenance related tasks to drive exceptional standards in every corner of the building - from safety and functionality to flawless presentation, inside and out
• Reporting to your General Manager, you'll be leading and developing a motivated team of seven Facilities Team Members to enable them to fully embrace their role in providing a first time fix
• Collaborating with an experienced Property Manager across twelve buildings
• Taking full accountability of any works happening in your buildings, coordinating and managing contractors on site including reviewing RAMs and permits to work, and attending pre-start and progress meetings
• Responsible for dealing with all customer reported maintenance, making sure that Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) checks are carried out, following up on remedial works and escalating when required to address issues including electrical, mechanical and ongoing repairs
• Managing compliance and safety using our compliance management system, including fire risk management so we meet our legal and statutory obligations

In addition to the salary shown you will be entitled to a number of other excellent benefits including:

• 28 days holiday plus you get your Birthday off work - and if that’s not enough you can also buy & sell holidays too
• Parking available
• 24 hours a year volunteer time - there are endless opportunities for you to get involved in supporting the causes that matter most to you
• Sabbatical of up to 12 months so you can take a career break after five years with us
• Healthcare cash plan for all colleagues, so you can claim back medical expenses like optical, dentist & physiotherapy. We also offer private healthcare cover on an opt in basis too
• Life assurance cover for all colleagues
• Up to 8% matched pension scheme
• Discounts & cashback at leading retailers
• Enhanced maternity - 26 weeks fully paid leave
• Interest freelearning loans to help you develop new skills

In addition to what to expect within the role and your benefits, it’s good to know that you’ll be working for a business that gives back - The Oglesby Charitable Trust has donated more than £25m since it started out in 2001. Supporting charities across Arts and Culture, Education, Environment, Medical Research and Social & Health Inequality.

Our operations team makes up a huge part of our workforce. Therefore it's incredibly important to us that we recruit from diverse backgrounds to reflect the communities we operate in, and ultimately achieve our goal of creating thriving cities that are completely inclusive.

We’ll do our best to get back to you within a week of your application, however if it has been longer than this please feel free to email [e-mail] for an update.