Murphy
Facilities Manager - North
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Facilities Manager - North
Murphy is recruiting for a Facilities Manager - North to work in the Facilities team across the North - offices include Wigan, Leeds, and Ollerton.
About Murphy
Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and the USA, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation, water, power, and natural resources. So that our teams out on projects can run smoothly, it is vital that we have robust support functions in place.
We are committed to fostering an engaging and collaborative work environment in which each person’s career is nurtured and developed. We focus on employee development, providing a culture of innovation and positive work-life balance.
Murphy is formally recognized as a sector-leading employer, Platinum Investors In People accredited, along with reported operating profit up 57% on the prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities, and ages. With a forward order book of £5.4bn and £23m invested in environmentally friendly plant in 2024, there really is #MoretoMurphy.
Role Overview
Reporting into the Operations Director, the Facilities Manager will be the principal point of contact for Facilities at their designated sites, delivering high service levels and ensuring legal compliance and safe work environments within an annually agreed budget.
A Day in the Life of a Murphy Facilities Manager
- Working with Facilities Operations Manager responsible for ensuring offices are legally compliant with relevant regulations, and onsite logbooks are maintained.
- Manage buildings to a high standard, providing a safe working environment for employees and visitors.
- Provide technical support and guidance on key regulatory requirements (fire, water, asbestos, electrical safety, gas, air, and LOLER), and on relevant property and facilities-linked activities including building fabric, landscaping, and external maintenance, M&E systems (incl. HVAC, lifts, boilers, and water systems), consumables, operational security and systems, pest control, cleaning, waste disposal, archiving, and catering.
- Working with Facilities Operations Manager responsible for managing planned and reactive asset maintenance, in line with FMR, long-term lifecycles, and strategic plans.
- Support outsourced contract management through oversight of service standards and provide feedback on delivery quality for key framework providers such as cleaning, security, maintenance, and catering.
- Provide technical input for routine work and project scope and specifications, ensuring orders are correct in terms of design and cost, and supporting procurement processes.
- Manage contractor process, from pre-start preparations, through RAMS review, and control of works, to post works inspections, ensuring delivery to time, specification, and quality standards.
- Responsible for conducting compliance audits to check certifications including remedial interventions are up to date, coverage of FM scopes remain appropriate, and delivery is in line with standards.
- Support external audits as FM lead, ensuring documentation is in order, sites are in good condition, and actions from previous assessments are closed down.
- Produce business cases for projects to improve office environments and demonstrate lifecycle assessment and value for money.
- Provide technical input to building strategies including office space planning, and modifications, planned programmes of work, and team moves.
- Contribute to policy creation, modification, and implementation.
- Deliver timely updates to the business on H&S matters, FM incidents and issues, and team performance.
- Support emergency responses and management of FM-related incidents.
- Maintain and update business continuity plans in line with business and regulatory changes.
- Support energy and utility management across all offices, driving efficiency, and utilizing sustainable options.
- Conduct surveys with Murphy employees and gain feedback on facilities operations and areas for improvement.
- Able to build, manage, and deliver a facilities budget covering PPMs, remedial works, and planned investment.
- Can assist with procurement, management, and tendering of all outsourced contracts for FM.
- Manage service charge budgets with relevant stakeholders, and ensure recharges are managed accurately and effectively.
- Identify cost-saving opportunities.
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Requirements
- Suitable qualifications in FM field.
- Experience managing hard and soft FM services with good knowledge of relevant codes of practice and statutory maintenance schedules (e.g. SFG20 and CIBSE standards).
- Membership of appropriate body preferred.
- Strong knowledge of relevant H&S legislation.
- Understanding of M&E systems to the extent to be able to refer the issues to a specialist, with the ability to interrogate reports.
- Project management, contractor management, and CDM knowledge desirable.
- Ability to use CAFM systems to track jobs and provide reports.
- Experience of setting and managing budgets preferred.
- Ability to assess and implement “state of the art” FM systems where they can help and improve Murphy.
- Experience in working in a “hot-desk” or “Agile” working environment and have detailed knowledge of the roll-out of these types of working practices.
- Willing to travel to sites across Murphy Northern geographies, must be able to drive.
What’s in it for you?
- 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service.
- Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review.
- Above market rate contributory pension scheme.
- Life assurance, health screening, and enhanced sick pay.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus.
- Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus.
- Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations.
- Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development.
- Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme, etc.
Application Process
If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call Lorna Rhodes on 07801 960464 to discuss in more detail.
Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK.
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