Regional Facilities Manager

Location: Regional – remote/home base with regular travel across the North (sites currently include 3 sites in Lancashire, 1 site in Wakefield, 1 site in Stoke, and 1 site in Derby)

Salary: £42,000-45,000 dependent upon experience

Hours: Full-time (40hrs per week)

About Us:

We are 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 North region. Candidates must be able to drive and be willing to travel across the North to each site.

Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to our Group Estates Director, your role will be to oversee and manage our Regional Facilities and Estates teams in the North 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, and opening of new services in the region in conjunction with our Executive Principal and wider project teams.

You’ll also be working with both the Estates Director and Group Health and Safety Manager to develop systems, templates, processes, and other needed quality functions in support of 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 judgments and prioritize multiple demands
• Excellent organizational skills
• Relevant qualifications in Building Studies or similar
• NEBOSH
• Ability to travel (including overnight stays), driver’s license, and access to a car
• Must be able to drive and be willing to travel across the North to each site

Qualifications:

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 such as dental, optical, physio, and many more.

If the above applies to you and you'd like more information on the role, apply online today and one of the team will be in touch!