Assistant Facilities Manager London, England
Job description
About the Role
A new opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Facilities Manager to join the Estates & Facilities Department.
We are looking for a new member to work with our highly dedicated Soft Services Team, delivering outstanding services across Residential and Academic Cleaning, Postage and Porterage, and Grounds and Gardening Work. The Assistant Facilities Manager is an integral part of the service we deliver, helping to drive the team towards excellence as well as looking to help achieve the Universities goals for the 2030 Strategy.
The Assistant Facilities Manager should have knowledge of Waste Management and Pest Control, as well as being able to produce ideas and initiatives to push sustainability across the university with the help of their team and their key stakeholders.
About You
You will have a professional qualification is Facilities Management or the equivalent experience as well as a health and safety qualification or demonstrable health and safety experience and be a member of a relevant professional body.
You will have experience in several key areas:
- Analyzing Complex Situations and producing solutions
- Experience using a CAFM system and other software applications.
- Experience in reviewing budgets and spend.
- Service review and development
You will be able to develop excellent working relationships between your teams as well as key stakeholders to your role. To be successful in this role you must be customer focused and driven to ensure that an excellent service is provided.
You will have the ability to work as part of a team but also on your own and under your own initiative. The successful candidates will need to have the ability to read and write in English, a strong dedication to teamwork, and the ability to focus on the needs of customers. As the Assistant Facilities Manager, you will need to be willing to learn and be flexible to perform a variety of tasks and skills when needed.
About the Department
Our mission is to ensure that the campus buildings, environment, and facilities reach the highest standard of design, sustainability, and presentation. This is to reflect the ambition of Queen Mary, enhance the student experience and promote Queen Mary as a world-class academic institution.
We provide the highest standards of Estates and Facilities services across the university, whilst demonstrating value for money.
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.
The role will work across all our campuses in London including our sports Ground in Chislehurst. It is a full time, permanent appointment. The starting salary will be Grade 5, £41,386 - £48,414 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Women, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic as these groups are underrepresented at this level at Queen Mary.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £41,386.00-£48,414.00 per year
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Maintenance: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 03/07/2023
Reference ID: QMUL32049
