Facilities Team Leader

Are you a Facilities Management professional, seeking your next career move in a Team Leader capacity? My client has an immediate opportunity for a Facilities Team Leader to join their Workplace Solutions Team on a permanent basis. Based in Berkshire with travel into West London, the successful applicant will deliver facilities services to corporate estate and premises, ensuring workplaces support creating a great colleague working environment.

Requirements:

• Provide day to day proactive and reactive FM services for our workplace ecosystem including owned and leased sites, touchdown spaces (where applicable).
• Support the implementation of modern ways of working, space planning & utilisation and new central service enabling colleagues in how & where they work.
• Support implementing improvements to FM services as well as larger workplace projects (e.g. refurbs, asset replacements, office moves, new tech).
• Lead and develop the Colleague advisor team, cleaner and caretaker roles ensuring regular 121s, development plans, team’s meetings.
• Ensure adequate coverage across the geography, resilience plans and training compliance.
• Ensure the legal compliance of the building including all H&S elements, the Incident Response Team, Fire Risk Assessments (FRA’s).
• Lead the delivery of colleague requirements for how/where they work, by delivering great customer service.
• Responsible for the Workplace Solutions Helpdesk; actioning calls & requests; and updating the Helpdesk complying with SLAs to our colleagues.
• Oversight of the opening, closing and security of the buildings, including OOH incident coordination in relation to the corporate estate.
• Responsible for a formal weekly building inspection to ensure proactive monitoring of the condition of our workplaces, create action/improvement plans and commissioning rectification work as necessary.
• Day to day contractor management, including internal cleaners and caretakers as required (dependant on specific post and location).
• Oversight of the stationery, office supplies, cleaning and kitchen stock levels.
• Support the move to a paperless office identifying archiving and digitising processes for our colleagues.
• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of people working within our commercial offices, premises working with our colleagues in Health & Safety and Asset Management to deliver consistently and collaboratively.
• Carry out purchasing and invoicing processes in a timely and accurate manner, identify possible areas for savings and efficiency.
• Understand and comply with Financial and Procurement regulations.

Additional Requirements:

• Proven track record in managing people with different needs located in multiple locations across the geography of the organisation.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages including Outlook, Word & Excel IT and computer skills.
• Proactive works on own initiative, able to prioritise workload and work well under pressure often producing outputs to tight deadlines.
• First Aider and Fire Warden trained (Desirable but training can be given).
• IOSH Managing Safely (Desirable but training can be given).
• Full driving licence with own transport.

To apply, please attach a copy of your CV.