Sheffield City Council
Facilities Officer
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Are you passionate about creating safe, welcoming, and well-maintained environments? Sheffield City Council is looking for a proactive and customer-focused Facilities Officer to join our Facilities Management team.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting the delivery of high-quality facilities services across a diverse portfolio of council buildings and community spaces. You will help ensure our properties are safe, compliant, and fit for purpose, enabling staff, customers, and communities to thrive.
About The Role
As a Facilities Officer, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operations undertaken in council buildings, ensuring excellent standards of service delivery and statutory compliance. Working closely with colleagues, contractors, customers, and stakeholders, you will contribute to the efficient management of facilities services across the city.
You will be involved in a wide variety of activities including staff and resource development and control building inspections, contractor management, health and safety monitoring, customer liaison, and supporting planned and reactive maintenance programmes.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor the condition, performance, safety, security, and cleanliness of council buildings, assets, and facilities within a regionally assigned area of Sheffield.
- Support the management and delivery of planned and reactive maintenance works.
- Proactively conduct site inspections and identify maintenance, compliance, and operational issues.
- Ensure effective performance and KPI reporting.
- Ensure effective building user liaison.
- Liaise with contractors and service providers to ensure works are completed to agreed standards.
- Assist in monitoring compliance with health and safety legislation, policies, and procedures.
- Investigate and respond to building-related enquiries, incidents, and service requests.
- Support the management of facilities budgets and procurement processes where required.
- Responsible for line management, training, development, and monitoring operational performance of service delivered by operational staff including Facilities Assistants and Cleaners.
- Maintain accurate records, reports, and performance data.
- Work collaboratively with council services, customers, and external partners.
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About You
We are looking for someone who:
- Has experience in facilities management, property management, building maintenance, or a related field.
- Possesses excellent communication and customer service skills.
- Has strong, effective staff management skills.
- Has a good understanding of health and safety requirements within a facilities environment.
- Can manage competing priorities and work effectively under pressure.
- Is proactive, organised, and solutions-focused.
- Has strong IT and administrative skills.
- Can work flexibly to cover needs so seven days a week service for 7am - 7pm.
- Can work independently while also contributing positively within a team.
A relevant qualification in Facilities Management, Building Services, Health and Safety, or a related discipline would be advantageous but is not essential.
What We Offer
Working for Sheffield City Council means being part of an organisation committed to making Sheffield a great place to live and work. We offer:
- Competitive salary.
- Generous annual leave entitlement.
- Local Government Pension Scheme.
- Flexible and hybrid working opportunities where appropriate.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- Health and wellbeing support.
- Employee discounts and benefits programme.
Apply Today
If you are motivated by making a positive impact and want to help deliver quality facilities services across Sheffield, we would love to hear from you.
Join us and help keep Sheffield's buildings safe, welcoming, and working for everyone.
We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity, and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled, and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.
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Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.
Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.
If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.
Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.
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