Hard Facilities Contract Manager

Rydon Group Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading facilities management company is seeking a Contract Manager to oversee NHS projects in Essex. The role involves leading a maintenance team, ensuring compliance with safety regulations, and managing resources effectively. The ideal candidate will have contract management experience in a healthcare setting and a strong financial acumen. This hybrid position offers a competitive salary, car allowance, and several employee benefits including a pension scheme and wellness programs.

Benefits

Competitive starting salary

Car allowance

25 days holiday

Employee discount scheme

Company pension

Health and wellness benefits

Qualifications

• Experience managing multi-site operations.
• Strong understanding of PFI contracts.
• Ability to lead employed and subcontracted trades.

Responsibilities

• Deliver hard facilities management services.
• Ensure compliance with contractual obligations.
• Manage maintenance teams effectively.

Skills

Team leadership

Financial acumen

Strategic thinking

Health and safety knowledge

Education

Contract management experience

Experience in healthcare/NHS setting

Job description

An exciting opportunity has now arisen for a Contract Manager (NHS Hard Facilities Management) to join our Hard Facilities Management team. This team delivers planned, preventative and responsive building repairs for our end client, the NHS.

The position will be offered on a hybrid working basis. When you are not required to be on one of the sites (all located in Essex) you will have the option to either work from home or from our main maintenance office in Dartford, Kent.

Rydon Maintenance is an expanding division of the Rydon Group and is successfully providing hard facilities management services to a variety of clients, predominantly within the healthcare sector. Rydon Maintenance provides hard FM (facilities management) services across England for a growing number of NHS Trusts. We look after more than 250 buildings on behalf of 20 NHS Trusts on a planned and responsive repairs, small works and minor capital projects süt. We provide maintenance services to acute (hospital), ambulance trusts, primaryanswer care trusts as well as mental health trusts.

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The successful candidate will take responsibility for the delivery of Hard FM ServicesPages (planned, preventative and responsive repairs) including health, safety, quality and per sorance across a number of PFI NHS contracts in Essex. denunc therefore the varied role where you will the point of contact for all operational issues to ensure the delivery of an effective hard facilities maintenance service in line with contractual obligations and budgetary constraints. Managing a skilled maintenance team delivering planned and reactive e maintenance you will ensure contract compliance with all statutory regulations, current legislation and local codes of practice and policies across the sites.

Specific key duties include :êend

• Ensuring that we deliver an outstanding maintenance and repairs service by providing excellent team leadership, long term planning of resources and delivering continuous improvements to the services / operations we provide.
• Ensure contractual commitments are met in accordance with KPI's / SLA's
• Managing these contracts on a不足day to day basis you will use your influence and impact to maximise financial profit levels and effectively manage risk while meeting or exceeding contractual key performance indicators.
• You will have responsibility for daily, weekly,лэл monthly and annual planning and attending client contract monitoring meetings ensuring that all supporting documentation are available to demonstrate service delivery performance.
• You will build a balanced well performing team around you with a constant eye on succession planning. You will ensure your team understands what their job entails and that they carry out their job to a consistently high level by setting and driving stretching targets whilst ensuring our Company and Clients Policies and Procedures are adhered to.
• Identify and mitigate risk in all areas of contract and operational performance.
• Control and monitor the performance of the specialist service providers and any sub contractors through chairing regular review meetings when nominated in accordance with the annual programme.

What we can offer you :

• A competitive starting salary.
• A car allowance of £5.472 per annum.
• 25 days holiday with the ability to increase up to 30 days.
• Access to an employee discount scheme which includes a wide-range of special offers and discounts on insurances, lifestyle goods and services.
• Company pension, life assurance, income protection and private medical.
• Flexible benefits for you to choose from including Critical Illness, DenPlan and Cycle to work schemes.
• Health and wellness benefits such as free flu vaccinations, access to an Employee Assistance and Wellbeing Programme, BUPA Health & Wellbeing Plans, access to our Health despert portal with an extensive range of advice and resources and much much more.

This is an excellent opportunity with onward development for you and the teams you lead.

Experience Required

The preferred candidate will be an experienced contract manager ideally with previous PFI (Private Finance Initiative) experience. Ideally, you will have managed services across a multi-site operation, with experience gained ideally within a healthcare / NHS setting. You may have worked directly for the NHS, for an FM contractor providing service to the NHS or for a consultancy delivering services into this market. We will however also consider candidates with experience gained within a commercial maintenance environment_variation (for example the maintenance of other public buildings).

You will also have excellent previous experience of leading teams that manage directly employed and subcontracted trades with up to date knowledge (and qualifications) within health and safety. You will have strong financial acumen, using your expertise to ensure that the financial interests of both Rydon and our Clients are managed. You will also demonstrate excellent long‑term planning / strategic thinking in order to recommend and implement continuous improvements to benefit our client and Rydon.

This role offers excellent opportunity for further personal development. If you have the above skills and experience we would strongly encourage you to apply. എന്നിവ

Additional Information

As a well-established, progressive company we are committed to attracting and retaining individuals by offering an excellent benefits package that includes a wide range of core and voluntary benefits.

Rydon is an equal opportunities employer and promotes diversity in employment. Successful candidates will be selected solely on their ability to carry out the duties of the post.

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