Senior Facilities Manager

University of Cambridge; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Cambridge seeks a Senior Facilities Manager to oversee operational delivery for the University Library and its facilities. The role demands leadership in managing the Facilities Management team and ensuring excellent service delivery, compliance, and safety standards while fostering a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Competitive pay with progression

Generous annual leave allowance

Flexible and hybrid working opportunities

Generous maternity and parental leave

Pension scheme with employer contribution

Travel benefits and retail discounts

Support with relocation

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership experience in FM and Workplace Services.
• Strong understanding of customer service importance.
• Excellent communicator with leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer focused delivery of FM services.
• Develop and implement Workplace Strategies.
• Ensure high standards of statutory compliance and health and safety.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Customer Focus

Budget Management

Education

Experience in Facilities Management

Job description

The Role

The Senior Facilities Manager is a pivotal role in managing the operational delivery for the University Library and the Library Storage Facility and supporting colleagues in Faculty and Departmental libraries in those aspects of operational delivery not covered by the 'host' building. This includes bring responsible for managing all activities of the Facilities Management team to ensure organisational success by way of safe, efficient and effective use of space, maintenance of the plant and equipment within the library plus management and leadership of the staff in the University Library and Faculty and Departmental Libraries (FDL) both from a day to day and long-term perspective.

The Main Duties Of The Role Include

• Lead customer focussed delivery of FM services
• Provide a key link to the University Library Management Team to ensure that service delivery is performing as they require
• Develop and implement Workplace Strategies
• Act as a primary interface with Estates Division functions such as Asset Management, Building Surveying, Statutory Compliance, Health & Safety and Sustainability
• Deliver high standards of statutory compliance and health and safety performance
• Drive FM performance through KPI's and SLA's
• Budget Management
• Providing technical and FM guidance
  
  

About You

• You will be able to demonstrate leadership experience in FM and Workplace Services within large and complex buildings
• As well you will be able to show a real passion for delivering customer focussed services and understand the important of the customer journey within the building
• For this role you will need to be an excellent communicator, who has the ability to show strong leadership and work within a team to deliver a high standard of service
• It is not essential that you hold a degree for this role, we are looking for someone who can bring experience to this role although we won't mind if you do have a degree
  
  

Benefits Of Working At The University Of Cambridge Include

• Competitive rates of pay with automatic service related pay progression and annual cost of living increases;
• Generous annual leave allowance
• Flexible and hybrid working opportunities;
• Generous maternity, adoption and shared parental leave entitlement and other family friendly schemes (e.g. workplace nurseries)
• An auto-enrolment pension scheme, with a generous employer contribution;
• Travel benefits and retail discounts at over 2,000 local and national stores;
• Schemes to support with relocation
  
  

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 30th July 2025

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Please note we will be reviewing applications on a regular basis. We reserve the right to close the position early once the available position is filled.

Please quote reference BA46157 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Further information

• Further Information - Senior Facilities Manager UL
  
  

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