Senior Facilities Manager (Job ID: 1821)
Company: ASCO UK Limited
Employment Type: Full Time/Permanent
Location: Aberdeen/Peterhead
Hours of Work: 37.5 Monday - Friday 0830-1630
To lead and manage the Facilities Management team across ASCO’s UK property portfolio. The role is responsible for the safe, timely, and professional delivery of all repair and maintenance activities, as well as the successful budgeting, planning, and execution of larger-scale, non-routine capital projects. This position ensures a robust, customer-focused service is delivered. The role is 'hands-on' in nature particularly around technical & hard services scopes, while also providing day-to-day management, leadership, and strategic direction to the facilities team.
Given the property portfolio, this role would suit an experienced facilities professional familiar with building surveying and construction work. Your experience will clearly demonstrate the ability to successfully lead a facilities management team and in doing so manage both in-house and third-party execution, including aspects of design and construction, maintenance, repair and refurbishment of buildings and infrastructure. Applicants must have the relevant skills and qualifications detailed to successfully lead and manage the performance of a technical, multi-disciplined team executing scopes across multiple sites. Key duties are to:
•Direct and manage all aspects of the facilities management function, combining both strategic direction and day-to-day oversight. Providing support and management to the team enabling the robust delivery of a customer focused service across all UK sites.
•Maintain and manage compliance of our property portfolio and infrastructure with all relevant statutory obligations.
•Project managing the delivery of larger scale, one off, non-routine work scopes to defined budgets and timelines. Co-ordinating contractor execution, managing works on-site to ensure projects are completed to a satisfactory standard and in accordance with all HSE requirements. Engaging with third party design teams including quantity surveyors as appropriate for scopes of greater complexity.
•For scopes fulfilled by suppliers, responsible for defining scopes of work incorporating and referencing applicable standards, to enable contract implementation and coverage.
•Providing technical oversight and guidance across all aspects of the function, including shaping and championing the CAFM system.
•Managing the team of technicians to ensure safe, quality provision of repair, maintenance and shoring services in line with allocated jobs.
•Create, maintain, regularly review and present to internal stakeholders a live 5 year CAPEX lookahead picture per site of non-routine, CAPEX work scopes that require to be completed and therefore budgeted for, to allow appropriate financial planning and to ensure the long-term integrity, environmental efficiency and cost stability of facilities.
•Ensure Health & Safety compliance, both in terms of job execution by technicians and suppliers as well as with legislative testing/inspection regimes, through being a visibly engaged HSE leader and champion of Safety as a Fundamental Obsession.
•Act as a focal point for out-of-hours assistance, emergency responses, critical incidents and supervision of out-of-hours building/maintenance works.
Minimum Competencies (Skills, Knowledge and Behaviours)
•Experienced Facilities Manager, working in accordance with SFG20 guidelines.
•Technical Building Services experience, with knowledge of building codes, safety regulations and industry best practices
•H&S Workplace Legislation
•Project Management
•Awareness and understanding of Statutory Compliance requirements.
•Supervisory and people management experience and qualities that are inclusive and influential across all levels of an organisation.
•Proactive and highly motivated with a can-do attitude and a hands-on approach, a strong team player, taking ownership and accountability for work.
•Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams and both internal and external stakeholders, excellent customer relationship management.
•Solutions based with strong planning, technical, co-ordinating and organising skills, and an excellent attention to detail.
•Accustomed to working effectively in a fast-paced environment, flexible and can adapt to changing workloads and priorities and emergency situations, where high standards are not compromised under pressure.
•Numeric and computer literate with excellent IT skills across the Microsoft suite.
Minimum Qualifications
•Member of Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM, formerly BIFM) or another FM professional body
•IOSH Managing Safely/NEBOSH or equivalent
•Full Drivers Licence
Desirable Qualifications/Competencies
•Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or equivalent
As you would expect from a highly progressive company, an attractive remuneration package is available to the successful applicant. When applying, your CV should include your current/most recent employment, which clearly demonstrates examples of the skills and behaviours required for the above role.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I)
ASCO is committed to supporting and promoting Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I). This commitment is embraced by our Group Board and our Management Board and informs all of our activities and their impact on our customers, employees and our stakeholders.
