Summary: The Facilities Manager role involves developing and delivering facilities management services for a public sector organization, focusing on non-residential premises such as community hubs and offices. The position requires overseeing service contracts, ensuring health and safety compliance, and managing budgets while identifying efficiency opportunities. The role is temporary to permanent and is based in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver a high-quality facilities management service across a range of non-residential premises, including offices, community buildings, and communal areas, ensuring consistency of service
• Ensure delivery of various service contracts across many residential and non-residential premises.
• Responsible for maintaining high levels of health and safety in all facilities and service contract operations, including developing and ensuring adherence to a permit to work system.
• Ensure the maintenance of accurate data both within and without the core databases, preparing monthly reports on service performance against a range of KPI's.
• Identify opportunities for efficiency and rationalisation within the organisation's commercial estate
• Lead on the relocation or refurbishment of workspaces, acting as client representative for all contract works, and managing relations with property professionals and legal advisors
• Managing a designated premises budget, ensuring value for money is achieved in all circumstances through the monitoring and control of expenditure and the early identification of any financial irregularity
• Be available out of hours to supervise contractors and organise emergency work when required

Key Skills:

• A strong record of demonstrable achievement at management level in the delivery of facilities and service contract management
• Experience of managing significant technical and organisational change
• Educated to degree level or equivalent work experience. Ideally RICS or CAFM
• Knowledge of current and future challenges facing Asset and Regeneration

Salary (Rate): 45000

City: Newcastle upon Tyne

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other