Facilities Manager

Job Title: Facilities Manager

Location: Sharston, M22 4HH

Salary: £35,000 – £40,000 per annum, depending on ability and experience

Job type: Full time, Permanent

About Us:

Established in 2000, Express Solicitors is an award-winning law firm that deals in Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence claims. Based in Manchester, we serve clients nationwide. We are proud of the work we do helping injured people, and this is our core business.

Express Solicitors are currently ranked 80 out of more than 10,000 law firms in the UK and ranked in the top ten for the Best Law Firm to work for in the UK by Best Companies. We have a 5-star ranking with Trust Pilot from over 6,000 reviews, which, coming from our clients, means a lot to us.

About the Role:

We are looking to appoint a Facilities Manager for our expanding Personal Injury law firm.

The role will require managing all facilities-related matters, including health and safety compliance across our brand-new office in Sharston, Wythenshawe. The role will also include the people management of an established team of six.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively oversee all facility maintenance and cleaning operations to ensure they meet high standards, are completed on time, and are cost-effective.
• Working with external contractors to negotiate services, pricing and delivery to expectations for both ad hoc and project work.
• Ensuring external contractors and suppliers adhere to clear SLAs, monitoring and enforcing compliance, and escalating to senior management where appropriate.
• Strategic planning for future needs, i.e. being aware of new technologies to improve cost efficiency across sites and/or take advantage of green tax initiatives.
• Consideration of supplier contracts, including energy suppliers, with commercial awareness of the wider economic picture to advise senior stakeholders of the risks and benefits of committing to new terms.
• Comply with Health and Safety and Environmental requirements according to current legislation/regulations and as contained within the company’s policies and procedures.
• Ensuring all documentation relating to facilities is updated in a timely manner where changes occur and auditing the completion of fire and security systems testing paperwork.
• Assisting in the maintenance and/or drafting of staff handbook(s), particularly regarding facilities-related content.
• Management of existing maintenance and cleaning teams, ensuring teams are being fully utilised, and checks are carried out regularly to ensure standards are met.
• Provide effective leadership to all staff under your control, ensuring that the necessary skill and competency levels are in place, developed or acquired.
• Assist the team with facilities work as needed, maintaining a “hands-on” approach when necessary.
• Report to senior management routinely, escalate issues when required, and collaborate with senior management on project work.

Person Specification:

• Experience in a facilities management role, reporting into the highest level of management.
• Strong project management skills, and the ability to develop policies, procedures and operational protocols.
• Able to communicate effectively to liaise with senior stakeholders, suppliers, contractors, etc…
• Experience of managing, inspiring and developing teams of people.
• Good computer skills for structured record keeping and diary management.
• Experience in carrying out inspections and audits to ensure both internal policy and regulatory requirements are adhered to.
• A qualification in a health and safety related award is desirable, or equivalent relevant knowledge/experience of health and safety regulations including fire safety requirements.

Salary & Hours and Benefits:

• Salary up to £35,000, depending on ability and experience
• Our standard working hours are 8:30am to 5:30pm Monday-Thursday and 8:30am to 5pm Friday
• 3/2 alternative working from home pattern staff after probation
• 23 days holiday a year
• 3 holiday buy backs per year after 1 year of service
• Extra day’s holiday for your birthday after 2 years’ service
• Private medical insurance available after 2 years’ service
• Death in Service – 2 x salary
• Active social committee with generous departmental and firm-wide social budget
• Active training culture and various groups and events such as Diversity & Inclusion
• Netball / Football team, 10km Manchester team and more
• Enhanced Maternity Leave payment if you have over 1 year tenure
• Other benefits including Employee Assistance Programme, free fruit & annual flu jab

Recruitment Process:

We rate skill and ability above all else and our recruitment policy encourages applications from all.

Interviews will be conducted by MS Teams or In Office and will include scenario-based questioning.

Please send a CV and covering letter by clicking APPLY.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Health & Safety Officer, Facilities Coordinator, Building Services Manager, Facilities Officer, Facilities Manager, Health and Safety Manager, Health and Safety Coordinator, Facilities Coordinator, Operations Assistant, Operations Manager may also be considered for this role.