Facilities Manager - South

J Murphy & Sons; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

J Murphy & Sons is seeking a Facilities Manager to lead the Facilities team across multiple sites in the UK. The role focuses on operational excellence, safety, and regulatory compliance, with accountability for budgets and service delivery.

Reporting to the Operations Director, you will manage maintenance, contractor performance, and continuous improvements to building services, M&E systems, and workplace environments. Travel between sites will be required as part of the role.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading facilities teams in complex environments.
• Strong knowledge of health, safety and statutory maintenance requirements.
• Experience managing budgets and service contracts.
• Ability to interpret regulations and apply to site operations.
• Proficient with CAFM systems and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead facilities team to ensure compliant, safe working environments across designated sites.
• Oversee planned and reactive maintenance, asset lifecycle planning and asset prioritisation.
• Manage outsourced services and contract performance against agreed standards.
• Prepare business cases and costed proposals for improvements and projects.
• Lead audits, ensure documentation, certifications and actions are up to date.
• Develop and manage budgets including PPMs and planned investments.

Skills

FM leadership

Budget management

Regulatory compliance

Health & Safety

Contract management

Facilities operations

Education

FM qualifications

Tools

CAFM systems

MS Office

Job description

Murphy is recruiting for a Facilities Manager

South to work within the Facilities team, covering Kentish Town, Hemel Hempstead and CannockOperating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and the USA, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation, water, power and natural resources. So that our teams out on projects can run smoothly it is vital that we have robust support functions in place.

We are committed to fostering an engaging and collaborative work environment in which each person’s career is nurtured and developed. We focus on employee development, providing a culture of innovation and positive work-life balance.

Reporting into the Operations Director the Facilities Manager will be the principal point of contact for Facilities at their designated sites, delivering high service levels and ensuring legal compliance and safe work environments within an annually agreed budget.

A day in the life of a Murphy Facilities Manager

• Working with Facilities Operations Manager responsible for ensuring offices are legally compliant with relevant regulations, and onsite logbooks are maintained
• Manage buildings to a high standard, providing a safe working environment for employees and visitors
• Provide technical support and guidance on key regulatory requirements (fire, water, asbestos, electrical safety, gas, air, and LOLER), and on relevant property and facilities linked activities including building fabric, landscaping and external maintenance, M&E systems (incl. HVAC, lifts, boilers and water systems), consumables, operational security and systems, pest control, cleaning, waste disposal, archiving, and catering
• Working with Facilities Operations Manager responsible for managing planned and reactive asset maintenance, in line with FMR, long-term lifecycles and strategic plans
• Support outsourced contract management through oversight of service standards and provide feedback on delivery quality for key framework providers such as cleaning, security, maintenance and catering
• Provide technical input for routine work and project scope and specifications, ensuring orders are correct in terms of design and cost, and supporting procurement processes
• Manage contractor process, from pre-start preparations, through RAMS review and control of works, to post works inspections, ensuring delivery to time, specification and quality standards
• Responsible for conducting compliance audits to check certifications including remedial interventions are up to date, coverage of FM scopes remain appropriate, and delivery is in line with standards
• Support external audits as FM lead, ensuring documentation is in order, sites are in good condition and actions from previous assessments are closed down
• Produce business cases for projects to improve office environments and demonstrate lifecycle assessment and value for money
• Provide technical input to building strategies including office space planning, and modifications, planned programmes of work, and team moves
• Contribute to policy creation, modification, and implementation
• Deliver timely updates to the business on H&S matters, FM incidents and issues, and team performance
• Support emergency responses and management of FM-related incidents
• Maintain and update business continuity plans in line with business and regulatory changes
• Support energy and utility management across all offices, driving efficiency, and utilising sustainable options
• Conduct surveys with Murphy employees and gain feedback on facilities operations and areas for improvement
• Able to build, manage and deliver a facilities budget covering PPMs, remedial works, and planned investment
• Can assist with procurement, management, and tendering of all outsourced contracts for FM
• Manage service charge budgets with relevant stakeholders, and ensure recharges are managed accurately and effectively
• Identify cost saving opportunities

Still interested does this sound like you?

• Suitable qualifications in FM field
• Experience managing hard and soft FM services with good knowledge of relevant codes of practice and statutory maintenance schedules (e.g. SFG20 and CIBSE standards)
• Membership of appropriate body preferred
• Strong knowledge of relevant H&S legislation
• Understanding of M&E systems to the extent to be able to refer the issues to a specialist, with the ability to interrogate reports
• Project management, contractor management and CDM knowledge desirable
• Ability to use CAFM systems to track jobs and provide reports
• Experience of setting and managing budgets preferred
• Ability to assess and implement “state of the art” FM systems where they can help and improve Murphy
• Experience in working in a “hot-desk” or “Agile” working environment and have detailed knowledge of the roll out of these types of working practices.
• Willing to travel to sites across Murphy Southern geographies, must be able to drive