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Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA); York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A government department in the UK seeks a Facilities Management Support Officer responsible for ensuring safe and compliant workplaces. The role involves engaging with stakeholders and managing service providers to maintain high standards of health and safety. Ideal candidates will have strong organizational and communication skills, customer-facing experience, and a commitment to improving processes. Applicants must be UK nationals or eligible Commonwealth or EU nationals. Compensation is set at the minimum of the entry salary band.

Qualifications

• Experience in facilities management or building services environment is required.
• Customer-facing experience is preferred.
• Commitment to relevant training or qualifications is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders to understand workplace requirements.
• Interface with Facilities Management service providers.
• Ensure workplaces are legally compliant and safe.
• Manage health and safety and premises maintenance.

Skills

Excellent organisational skills

Excellent communication skills

Stakeholder management

Time management

Job description

Overview

Do you thrive on making workplaces safer, smarter, and more efficient? Can you build strong relationships while keeping compliance on point? Are you ready for a role where your organisational skills truly make a difference? If so, this could be the job you have been looking for. This role is key to the delivery of the Intelligent Client Function by Defra Group Property and provides support to the team in reassurance on statutory duties and compliance and maintenance and enhancing good working relationships with both customers and the service provider.

Responsibilities

• Work with local stakeholders to understand their current and future workplace requirements.
• Interface with the Facilities Management (FM) service providers to ensure and facilitate a seamless facilities management service provision.
• Provide assurance to stakeholders that the workplaces occupied by their staff and visitors are legally compliant and safe.
• Manage health and safety, premises maintenance, Business Continuity arrangements, identifying any remedial actions and acting upon them.
• Travel to other sites and, where necessary, stay overnight for meetings or training events.

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience of providing an efficient support function within a facilities management or building services environment, with customer-facing experience.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and work well within a team; evidence of continually improving processes, policies and ways of working.
• Commitment to undertaking relevant training or qualifications.
• Valid UK driving licence.
• Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check and baseline personnel security standard checks.

Nationality / Eligibility

• UK nationals
• Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under EUSS
• Individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Additional Information

Defra does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and is unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.

All employees are expected to commence on the minimum of the pay band for new entrants. Current Civil Servants are subject to existing internal role rules.