Regional Facilities Manager
Location: Regional – remote/home base with regular travel across the South West*
Salary: £42,000 - 45,000 dependent upon experience
Hours: Full- time (40hrs per week)
This Group
We’re the sixth-largest provider of SEN educational services in the country, supporting over 900 children and young people, and employing over 1,000 staff.
We’re currently seeking a Regional Facilities Manager for our South West region.
Key Responsibilities:
Reporting to our Group Estates Director your role will be to oversee and manage our Regional Facilities and Estates teams in the South West and take responsibility for the development, implementation, refinement, delivery and monitoring of the facilities and estates services together with associated documentation and systems.
You’ll act as a technical advisor for facilities and estates matters in the region and support the site based teams and contractors to ensure safe premises that are fit for children and young adults, staff and visitors
Key to your role will be your ability to ascertain service requirements and maintain service delivery at the required standard throughout the region.
Whilst the maintenance and development of our existing sites remains the core responsibility for your role; you will also play a key position in the construction/development/opening of new services opening in the region in conjunction with our Executive Principal and wider project teams
You’ll also be working with both Estates Director and Group Health and safety manager to develop systems, templates, processes and other needed quality functions in support of the establishing and monitoring the delivery of the department’s function.
Experience
Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:
- Experience of delivering reactive, planned and project services
- Experience in line management
- Good communication skills, negotiation skills, leadership
- Proven ability to work under pressure and respond to deadlines
- Ability to make sound judgements and prioritise multiple demands
- Excellent organisational skills
- Relevant qualifications in Building Studies/ similar
- NEBOSHH
- Ability travel (inc. overnight stays), drivers licence and access to a car
- *our South West sites currently include sites around Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Bristol, Minehead, Cranborne
Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:
- Life assurance
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Perkbox - offering high street discounts
- Employee assistance programme
- Car lease scheme
- Fully funded training and qualifications
- Bike to work scheme
- Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services