Interim Facilities Maintenance Manager (Banking Client)

This is an exciting opportunity working for a globally recognised corporate company with an ambition to build a sustainable service for existing and new customers. Our client is now looking for a Facilities Manager with a technical background to join their team on a 12 months FTC.

Your primary brief will be to review all aspects of hard services maintenance-plant, machinery, contracts, mechanical and electrical installations and systems, lifts, fire safety, risk and compliance.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• To manage the in-house Maintenance functions and external contracts- ensuring compliance at all times, adherence to PPM schedules, driving service levels, improving standards and developing the teams
• Support to the Head of Dept. on H&S and business continuity
• Support to the Head of Dept for budgetary management and reporting.
• Review supply chain and contracts to extract the best value whilst maximising service levels.
• Support to the Security Manager for contract/infrastructure advice and execution where appropriate

• Responsibility and accountability for the in-house maintenance and facilities teams and external contractors for all hard and soft services deliverables and a range of suppliers.
• To include post room, archive management, fire, lifts, M&E, HVAC, planned preventative maintenance programmes and reactive day to day operational requirements
• Resource planning all the workloads-organising, allocating and recording holidays and absences to ensure appropriate resourcing at all times for the banks operating requirements
• Performing staff appraisals.
• Recruitment, training and development of staff
• Lead on moves management and office space planning.
• Creating monthly space occupancy data and ensuring space plans are up to date.
• Financial management-commercially astute.
• Extract best value from supply chain whilst driving service levels.
• Lead and report monthly on H&S stats and risk matrix
• Collate and report on range of management information against internal service level deliverables
• Manage the building fabric maintenance programmes and office moves
• Contract and supplier management-oversee the supply chain ensuring due diligence on all contracts and adherence to service levels are being monitored.

Person Specification

• Must have a minimum of 5 GCSE’s grade A-C or equivalent qualification;
• BIFM or RICS member
• NEBOSH certification
• Professional accreditation - e.g. BIFM exams
• In house private sector experience (not from outsourced or property manager FM background)
• Management of maintenance teams
• Succession planning

If you would like to apply for this position, please contact Maxwell Stephens without delay on 0207 118 4848 or email cv@maxwellstephens.com