Facilities Manager

About this role

The role

Do you have proven experience leading and developing Facilities Management teams across multiple sites? Are you passionate about creating safe, compliant, and high-performing workplace environments? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Facilities Manager to join our team and play a pivotal role in ensuring our office environments are safe, welcoming, and fully compliant for colleagues, visitors, and contractors. You'll help drive excellence across our facilities portfolio, ensuring compliance with current legislation, Southern Housing policies and procedures, and our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. Leading a team of Facilities Officers, you'll inspire high performance, foster a positive team culture, and champion behaviours aligned with our HEART values. You'll work closely with contractors and stakeholders to manage both planned and reactive maintenance programmes, ensuring works are delivered to the highest standards while achieving value for money.

Your primary base will be Fleet House, Farringdon, with regular travel required across our London offices. The role is office based with the option of having one day hybrid when appropriate and as agreed with your manager.

What you'll have

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in managing and developing a team within Facilities Management.
• Acquired or currently working towards Health and Safety NEBOSH or IOSH General certificate.
• Extensive knowledge of facilities services including building maintenance, systems, office equipment, office moves, procurement of goods and services.
• Experience of Multi-site Facilities Management.
• Previous knowledge of PPM and managing compliance.
• You’ll be prepared to travel daily across multiple sites.

In your supporting statement, please address how you meet each of the above criteria providing real examples.

Advert closing date: 23rd August 2026 at 23:59 (We may close the advert early if we receive a suitable number of applications).

About us

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own! We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people’s lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

What's in it for you

• Pension
• Life assurance
• Healthcare cash plan
• Eyecare & dental
• Birthday leave
• Retailers discounts
• Cycle to work
• Buy & sell annual leave
• Season ticket loan
• In-house academy & career development
• Flexible working

Inclusion and Diversity

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it’s about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual. We’re all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.

Work Location: In person

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