We're now seeking a permanent, full time Facilities Manager, Monday to Friday, 8am - 5pm. You’ll be responsible for managing two of our data centres in Welwyn Garden City and Acton, West London.
This is a highly visible role in a fast-paced, change based environment, where you'll have daily face to face interaction with building users across both sites.
Main Duties
- Planning and delivering contracted services for the sites via management of a large team
- Ensuring day to day co-ordination of the site facilities teams including team briefings, training etc is carried out
- Understanding of contractual obligations
- Overall accountability for liaison between the client and Dalkia
- Maintaining excellent customer relationships
- Propose ideas for cost control and profit generation
- Delivering the best customer service to all building users
- Ensuring health and safety and statutory compliance for the sites
- Supporting the delivery of additional projects
- Working as part of a wider, National team of facilities professionals sharing best practice, identifying opportunities for cost control/ reduction and innovation
Working for Dalkia gives you access to a wide variety of benefits including:
- Car allowance/vehicle
- Holidays – 25 days plus Bank Holidays plus option to purchase an additional 5 days leave every year
- Life assurance – 2x basic salary
- Flexible Benefits Scheme – including eye care voucher, store discounts for major retailers, salary sacrifice electric car vehicle lease scheme, personal IT equipment loans, impartial financial/savings guidance
- Access to wellbeing programme
- Company Sick Pay
- Employee recognition programmes which reward exceptional achievements
- Employee Referral bonus with generous bonuses for ‘referring a friend’
- The opportunity to use one working day per year volunteering to help the local community
- Employee Assistance Programme - free, confidential 24/7 365 support on all lifestyle matters
Requirements
- Experience within the FM sector at similar level, managing delivery, teams, individual and client relationships leading by example at all times.
- Sound knowledge of QSHE – ideally NEBOSH certificate, minimum of IOSH managing Safely certificate
- Good knowledge of SLA's/KPI's and measurement procedures
- Good IT Skills – including Microsoft Excel
- Commercially aware with a good understanding of cost controls and budgets
- Ability to work under pressure in a highly demanding environment
- Decision maker and problem solver
- Strong people and team management skills
- Self-motivated with strong communication skills both oral and written
- Strong customer relation skills
- Self-motivated, team player with the ability to motivate others
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
We’re committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect. If you need adjustments, we're happy to discuss that with you. Please contact our talent acquisition team in confidence.