Facilities Manager - Birmingham City Centre

What We’re Looking For

• Managing multiple spaces will be important for this role, ideally similar in terms of commercial property.
• Managing a team of up to seven, although managerial experience is important for this role, it’s more around how you manage that’s important to us; we want someone who is supported, keen to help development, and compassionate in the way they work. Motivating colleagues and bringing them on the journey of mobilising and maintaining these incredible buildings.
• Experience of mobilising buildings will be highly advantageous.
• The ability to manage multi-projects, thinking both proactively and reactively to preempt any events but equally react quickly when necessary.
• Experience of effectively managing contractors and suppliers, building positive relationships to make sure the best possible outcome is achieved.
• Collaborating effectively with internal colleagues.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Contributing to the delivery of all maintenance-related tasks to drive exceptional standards in every corner of the building - from safety and functionality to flawless presentation, inside and out.
• Reporting to your General Manager, you'll be leading and developing a motivated team of seven Facilities Team Members to enable them to fully embrace their role in providing a first-time fix.
• Collaborating with an experienced Property Manager across twelve buildings.
• Taking full accountability of any works happening in your buildings, coordinating and managing contractors on site including reviewing RAMs and permits to work, and attending pre-start and progress meetings.
• Responsible for dealing with all customer reported maintenance, making sure that Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) checks are carried out, following up on remedial works and escalating when required to address issues including electrical, mechanical, and ongoing repairs.
• Managing compliance and safety using our compliance management system, including fire risk management so we meet our legal and statutory obligations.

Benefits

In addition to the salary shown you will be entitled to a number of other excellent benefits including:

• 28 days holiday plus you get your Birthday off work - and if that’s not enough you can also buy & sell holidays too.
• Parking available.
• 24 hours a year volunteer time - there are endless opportunities for you to get involved in supporting the causes that matter most to you.
• Sabbatical of up to 12 months so you can take a career break after five years with us.
• Healthcare cash plan for all colleagues, so you can claim back medical expenses like optical, dentist & physiotherapy. We also offer private healthcare cover on an opt-in basis too.
• Life assurance cover for all colleagues.
• Up to 8% matched pension scheme.
• Discounts & cashback at leading retailers.
• Enhanced maternity - 26 weeks fully paid leave.
• Interest-free learning loans to help you develop new skills.

About Us

Our operations team makes up a huge part of our workforce. Therefore it's incredibly important to us that we recruit from diverse backgrounds to reflect the communities we operate in, and ultimately achieve our goal of creating thriving cities that are completely inclusive.

We’ll do our best to get back to you within a week of your application, however if it has been longer than this please feel free to email talent@bruntwood.co.uk for an update.