Assistant Facilities Manager

Location: Leeds, Stockton-on-Tees, Elland, York

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 8.30am-5.00pm, 1 hour lunch

Salary: Competitive, dependant on experience

Bonus opportunity: Up to 20% of annual salary, measurement based on company and personal performance

Requirements:

Reporting to the Operational Team Lead and receiving support throughout the development period, the Assistant Facilities Manager will be part of a team responsible for ensuring seamless facilities management services to a range of their dedicated sites and clients, as well as being flexible and providing support where required in the day-to-day business of the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting the key account holder in delivering the services
• Ensuring clients are kept well informed regarding any facilities management issues.
• Coordination and management of both Soft and Hard Service contracts
• Support the delivery of Planned Maintenance Schedules and Reactive Maintenance in line with SLA's
• Ensure working practices are safe and comply with legislation
• Liaising with our safety, environment and compliance (SEC) team to ensure all works are delivered safely, compliantly, and with the environment in mind
• Liaising and working with clients to maintain 100% compliance on our sites at all times.
• Supporting the production and provision of reports
• Attendance at operational and contractual meetings as required
• Keep the CAFM system updated ensuring tasks are closed out correctly and site information is maintained
• Day to day operational support to the wider team
• Formulating quotations for remedial works and new installations
• Sub-contractor performance management, issuing new contracts and selecting new sub-contractors
• Day to day administrative duties such as filing, electronic file management, photocopying and emails relative to the role

Skills and Attributes

As well as exhibiting the Sewell Behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Team and Customer Focused, with a mentality of Doing the Right Thing, the successful person will have the following:

Essential:

• Experience working within a facilities role
• Awareness of Health and Safety practices and processes
• A satisfactory Enhanced DBS (criminal background) check
• Full Driving License, valid in the UK
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to liaise with clients and subcontractors
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise a variety of tasks
• Excellent levels of computer literacy and be comfortable with Microsoft packages (in particular Outlook, Word & Excel)
• The ability to work as a team member in a busy and fast paced working environment
• A positive approach to learning, development and progression and a flexible working attitude

Desirable:

• Previous working knowledge within facilities management or maintenance
• Hold IWFM or Facilities Management relevant academic qualifications, or hold Business or Management formal qualifications
• Hold NEBOSH General Certificate or similar equivalent

Benefits

• Competitive Salary, Dependent on experience
• Annual Bonus opportunity
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 30 days
• Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates, learn more here: Employee Ownership - Sewell Group (sewell-group.co.uk)
• Auto Enrolment pension
• Staff discounts
• High Street & Retail discount schemes
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Technology Scheme
• Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Management and Manufacturing

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting