Facility manager in Sheffield

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included. Sheffield is a welcoming city that cares about its people, its places and its future. The FM team aims to keep buildings safe, welcoming and compliant, through our internal teams and contract partners. We’re now looking for a Facilities Manager to play a vital role in maintaining this aim and playing their part in shaping how our buildings are managed every day for the benefit of service users throughout Sheffield. If you’re passionate about standards, service quality and doing things properly, and you want your work to have visible impact across a major city – this is your opportunity.

Why This Role Matters

This isn’t just about managing facilities or ticking boxes. It’s about protecting people, ensuring legal compliance, and helping the council to deliver excellent services across a diverse and varied estate that supports communities every day. You’ll play your part in delivering our values and improving how things are done – with the backing of a values-driven organisation that genuinely cares.

What You’ll Be Doing

The role is focused on the operational management of buildings and associated FM staff, to ensure they are safe and available for use by service teams. The role will require the successful candidate to manage:

• a flexible assigned portfolio of sites from within the corporate estate, which includes a wide variety of building types.
• a team of facilities staff that covers your portfolio of sites
• the performance of contract partners and in-house teams that undertake repairs and servicing
• the compliance of your portfolio, principally relating to fire safety, legionella control and asbestos management
• liaison with the users and stakeholders, in an effective manner, so they can fulfil their service delivery requirements to the people of Sheffield.

What We’re Looking For

You will need to have excellent management skills, with problem solving attributes along with being enthusiastic, confident, and well organised. Ideally you will have experience and/or formal qualifications in Facilities Management service delivery or related activity. You will need knowledge and/or formal qualification/experience of Facility related Health and Safety, statutory testing and monitoring staff/contractor performance to ensure your success. You will need to recognise that you will be a key person that will ensure that together we get things done so people improve and take pride in what we do. In achieving this you will need the ability to support staff, raise standards, undertake effective communication, monitor partner providers’ activity, effectively reporting against your objectives. You will need to be able to put people at the heart of what you do to ensure we effectively listen to and support our staff and the people that use our sites, help wellbeing along with challenging discrimination. You will need an open and honest approach to your work by fostering an environment that supports people in speaking up and bringing diverse ideas to what we offer, along with seeking out feedback on the way we work. The Service makes extensive use of IT systems to support, manage and monitor service delivery so experience in this area will ideally be required. You will need to demonstrate excellent customer liaison skills to ensure you deliver on the wide-ranging objectives required by the post.

What’s In It For You

• We offer a competitive salary
• We offer a generous holiday entitlement.
• We offer a generous pension package
• We can offer a wider range of flexible working opportunities, which benefit your work‑life balance around the requirements of the service.
• Meaningful work that directly benefits residents and communities
• Opportunities for development and progression
• A supportive, inclusive culture where your voice is valued

If you would like to find out more details of the post, please contact Phil Burgin on 07385 416290 or Graham Wright on 07989 164042.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full‑time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share. If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade. Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.