Facilities Minor Works Manager

Tandem Talent; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading architectural firm based in London is seeking a Facilities Minor Works Manager to oversee multiple projects across their campus. You will manage all aspects from scoping to handover, ensuring safety, quality, and compliance. The ideal candidate has experience in facilities management or construction, strong knowledge of building systems, and excellent communication skills. This role offers the opportunity to work within a global design leader's operational core and contribute to enhancing innovative architectural spaces.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in facilities management or construction environment.
• Strong understanding of technical compliance and contractor supervision.
• Proactive approach with ability to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Oversee multiple minor works projects ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Prepare technical specifications and manage procurement activities.
• Supervise contractors during design, installation, and handover.
• Coordinate with internal teams for smooth project delivery.
• Engage with the CAFM system to raise work orders.

Skills

Project management

Building fabric knowledge

MEP systems understanding

Stakeholder management

Organizational skills

Problem-solving

Job description

Facilities Minor Works Manager

Foster + Partners

London

Foster + Partners is one of the most innovative and internationally recognised architecture and design practices in the world. Our London campus supports over 2,000 designers, engineers, technologists and specialists across a series of interconnected buildings, workshops and creative spaces. It is a uniquely complex and dynamic environment — a place where world‑class architecture is conceived, developed and delivered. Behind this campus sits a highly skilled Facilities team that ensures our spaces operate with the same precision, care and design excellence that define the practice's work.

The Opportunity

This role sits at the heart of the practice's operational landscape — managing a steady portfolio of minor projects that improve building fabric, Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) systems, workplace environments and infrastructure across the Foster + Partners campus. You will take responsibility for projects from early scoping and specification through to tendering, contractor management, installation, testing and final handover. Each project demands a meticulous, safety‑led and quality‑focused approach, ensuring the campus performs to the highest possible standard at all times.

Working closely with the Facilities Maintenance Manager, you will help deliver a continuous programme of upgrades and enhancements across multiple buildings, supporting the architectural, technical and cultural ambitions of the practice.

What You'll Lead

• Oversee multiple minor works projects across the multi‑building Foster + Partners campus, ensuring safe, efficient and high‑quality delivery.
• Prepare technical specifications, tender packages and contract documentation; evaluate submissions and manage procurement activities.
• Supervise contractors and consultants during design, installation, testing, commissioning and handover — including occasional out‑of‑hours work.
• Review contractor documentation, including O&M manuals, as‑built drawings and health & safety records.
• Validate quotations and contractor claims, ensuring accurate work certification and strong commercial oversight.
• Support risk and change management processes to maintain programme, cost and compliance integrity.
• Coordinate closely with internal teams to ensure clear communication, smooth delivery and minimal operational disruption.
• Work with the Health & Safety team to assess risk/method statements and issue permits to work as required.
• Provide recommendations for CapEx planning relating to building fabric and MEP upgrades or modifications.
• Engage with the CAFM system to raise work orders and follow internal Facilities procedures.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and service excellence across the Facilities function.

What You Bring

• Demonstrable experience delivering minor works projects within facilities management, construction or building services environments.
• Strong understanding of building fabric, MEP systems, technical compliance and contractor supervision.
• Excellent organisational, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A proactive, self‑motivated approach with the ability to prioritise and work independently.
• Calm, collaborative and solutions‑focused attitude, essential in a fast‑paced creative and technical environment.
• Ability to build strong working relationships at all levels and manage competing demands effectively.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.

Why Join Foster + Partners

This is a rare opportunity to work within the operational core of a global design leader. You will support a multi‑building creative campus, contribute to the continual improvement of our spaces and help shape an environment that enables world‑class architectural innovation.