facilities manager Newmarket, England
Job description
Job title: Regional Facilities Manager
Based at: Newmarket Racecourses
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week
About the role
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Regional Facilities Manager to join our Operations team, playing a crucial role in managing, maintaining, and enhancing the operation of all buildings, facilities and systems (permanent and temporary) across the region with focus on Hard FM services whilst ensuring compliance with all Health & Safety requirements and legislation.
About The Jockey Club
The Jockey Club stages thrilling sporting occasions and live events nationwide including The Grand National, The Cheltenham Festival & The Derby. Owning & operating 15 course’s, millions of people every year enjoy the special experiences we offer through racing, music, food and entertainment on raceday’s and beyond.
As the largest commercial group in British racing, we are guided by our mission to act for the long term good of the sport. Every penny we make goes back into racing to promote excellence within Britain’s second biggest spectator sport. Our people are what makes this possible
At The Jockey Club people are at the heart of what we do and drive our success. We are inclusive and actively seek to attract people with unique backgrounds and perspectives. Diverse, collaborative teams are pivotal to our success and support the potential and growth of all our people.
The Regional Facilities Manager will
¨ Initiate and lead the preparation of Asset Registers for all sites in the region.
¨ Lead the Region on the FM contract with the main Group contractor ensuring activities are accurate, completed in a timely manner, achieve compliance for SAG and are cost effective.
¨ Utilise & build on current activities to deliver planned maintenance programmes to deliver agreed standards reviewing current skills & resources to deliver successful maintenance.
¨ Establish a five-year programme of works with approximate estimated costs covering work required to replace plant and building fabric as operating life expires.
¨ Alongside wider Operations team review existing Health, safety & environmental activities ensuring each racecourse has sufficient procedures to cover all areas of risk.
¨ Drive energy efficiency & sustainability opportunities to reduce energy consumption on light, power & heat and recycling.
¨ Assist with capital projects by advising on maintenance issues to optimise project success and minimize future life cycle costs.
¨ Monitor the performance of external contractors against agreed KPI’s and ensure all works tests and inspections are carried out on time and to a satisfactory standard.
¨ Coordinate maintenance/refurbishment work with operational requirements & the need to safely accommodate large numbers of the public. Prepare all buildings & public areas for all racedays & events.
About you
¨ IOSH & NEBOSH Qualifications
¨ Facilities Management experience
¨ Budget management experience
¨ Management of H&S in the workplace
¨ Experience dealing with sub-contractors and supply chain within a complex multi-faceted operation.
¨ Building Management Systems experience
¨ Experience of managing large high value projects from planning to delivery
What we offer in return
¨ All colleagues can go along to any of our race day or music events free of charge – along with 3 friends or family with our TeamPass Ticket scheme.
¨ An award-winning pension scheme provider with a generous employer contribution
¨ A healthcare cash back plan enabling you to claim money back on health & wellbeing services.
¨ 25 days annual leave
¨ Access to a suite of Learning & Development training resources from renowned providers
¨ A whole host of other benefits including free eyecare vouchers, a ride to work cycle scheme & discounts across varying retailers & services.
If you think you have everything we’re looking for and more, then we’d love to hear from you. Don’t hang around, our closing date for this vacancy is 7th August but we reserve the right to bring this forward if we have many applications.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
