Facilities Manager

About this role

We're looking for a Facilities Manager to join our Sheffield Schools team based in Sheffield.

Hours: 40 hours per week

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

This is an exciting opportunity to support the delivery of day-to-day operational facilities management services across school sites in Sheffield. You'll play a key role in ensuring safe, compliant, and efficient service delivery, working closely with school stakeholders and leading a dedicated team to maintain excellent standards across all facilities.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Facilities Manager, you'll be working within the Sheffield Schools team, supporting them in delivering high-quality facilities management services. Your day to day will include:

• Managing day-to-day FM operations across assigned school sites, ensuring all services meet contractual requirements
• Leading and mentoring soft services teams, including supervisors, operatives and sub-contractors
• Ensuring full compliance with health and safety regulations, conducting regular audits and risk assessments
• Building strong relationships with school staff and acting as the primary on-site point of contact
• Overseeing planned preventative maintenance schedules and managing reactive works to ensure timely resolution

What are we looking for?

This role of Facilities Manager is great for you if

• You have strong operational facilities management experience, ideally in schools or similar environments
• You possess a good understanding of compliance and statutory requirements
• You have a hands-on, proactive approach with excellent problem-solving skills
• You demonstrate strong communication and customer service abilities
• You have experience managing contractors and can oversee their performance effectively

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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