Building Manager in Liverpool

Our purpose for Mitie Communities is to improve lives by delivering sustainable outcomes as a trusted and reliable partner of the Public Sector. Mitie Communities provides a full range of Facilities Management services to the UK's local public sector, including hospitals, schools, universities, local authorities, immigration services, police, and other blue light facilities.

The Building Manager will provide the management and leadership of a team delivering a full range of building works and estates services, maintaining efficient building services and installations, ensuring that the service is carried out safely, in accordance with the PFI contract, statutory requirements, and HTMs/HBNs. The Building Manager has overall responsibility for ensuring that building maintenance, including contract work, is carried out to appropriate standards and specifications.

The Building Manager will provide expert specialist and professional building expertise to other Mitie staff, directors, and senior management of the organisation. They will undertake Lead Authorised Person responsibilities in relation to specified building disciplines and ensure safe systems of work are followed at all times.

Main Duties:

• Provide effective communication with all Managers, Senior Managers, and Directors both within Mitie and the Trust.
• Communicate highly complex and technical information to building teams and numerous external bodies at every level and discipline.
• Ensure that all contractual and statutory requirements relating to buildings and their services are carried out and records kept.
• Manage and undertake the duties of the Authorised Person in line with Mitie's Site Authorised Person Matrix.
• Formulate, develop, structure, and schedule strategic plans impacting across the whole site.
• Develop complex risk management strategies across the Building function in line with statutory requirements.
• Lead and co-ordinate staff by maintaining sound employee relations, high morale, and motivation.
• Ensure that the maintenance, repair, and preservation of building fabric are within the contract specification and carried out within agreed standards.
• Ensure that regular inspections and specialist inspections/surveys are carried out.
• Ensure the implementation of the building fabric planned preventative maintenance System (PPM).
• Ensure that annual and other periodic maintenance contracts are in place and executed at the pre-determined time schedules.
• Continually update the Estate property appraisal database.
• Ensure that adequate emergency arrangements/contingency plans are made.
• Develop a proactive and innovative approach to the delivery of building/support services.
• Manage all aspects of environmental control in respect of discharges of surface water.
• Participate in the selection and appointment of Mitie staff, monitor their competency, development, and training.
• Maintain an effective complement of Trades Staff, identifying and providing solutions for any shortfall.
• Draw up professional development plans including training needs for each member of staff.

Qualifications:

• Relevant certifications in FM & Building or other related fields (e.g., NEBOSH, IOSH, IWFM).
• Demonstrated experience in a building leadership role, preferably within facilities management, particularly in healthcare (HTM01-08).
• Strong understanding of building fabric principles relevant to the operational context.
• Experience in managing compliance with standards, processes, and procedures.
• Expertise in developing and implementing audit action plans to address non-compliance effectively.
• Strong analytical skills to assess labour loads and recommend necessary competency levels for technical roles.
• Excellent communication skills to engage effectively with diverse teams.
• Strong leadership abilities with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Willingness to adapt to changing environments and embrace new challenges.

Additional Information:

This role may require regular entry to high-risk or forensically clean areas of the SARC at Rainbow. The successful candidate will be required to provide a DNA sample to be held on the Staff Elimination Database for the purposes of eliminating your DNA from any forensic samples that may be taken at the SARC.