Senior Facilities Manager (Job ID: 1821)
Posted 12 hours 29 minutes ago by ASCO Group Limited
Permanent
Full Time
Trades & Services Jobs
Scotland, United Kingdom
Job Description
Senior Facilities Manager (Job ID: 1821)
Company: ASCO UK Limited
Employment Type: Full Time/Permanent
Hours of Work: 37.5 Monday - Friday
To lead and manage the Facilities Management team across ASCO's UK property portfolio. The role is responsible for the safe, timely, and professional delivery of all repair and maintenance activities, as well as the successful budgeting, planning, and execution of larger-scale, non-routine capital projects. This position ensures a robust, customer-focused service is delivered. The role is 'hands-on' in nature particularly around technical & hard services scopes, while also providing day-to-day management, leadership, and strategic direction to the facilities team.
Given the property portfolio, this role would suit an experienced facilities professional familiar with building surveying and construction work. Your experience will clearly demonstrate the ability to successfully lead a facilities management team and in doing so manage both in-house and third-party execution, including aspects of design and construction, maintenance, repair and refurbishment of buildings and infrastructure. Applicants must have the relevant skills and qualifications detailed to successfully lead and manage the performance of a technical, multi-disciplined team executing scopes across multiple sites. Key duties are to:
•Direct and manage all aspects of the facilities management function, combining both strategic direction and day-to-day oversight. Providing support and management to the team enabling the robust delivery of a customer focused service across all UK sites.
•Maintain and manage compliance of our property portfolio and infrastructure with all relevant statutory obligations.
•Project managing the delivery of larger scale, one off, non-routine work scopes to defined budgets and timelines. Co-ordinating contractor execution, managing works on-site to ensure projects are completed to a satisfactory standard and in accordance with all HSE requirements. Engaging with third party design teams including quantity surveyors as appropriate for scopes of greater complexity.
•For scopes fulfilled by suppliers, responsible for defining scopes of work incorporating and referencing applicable standards, to enable contract implementation and coverage.
•Providing technical oversight and guidance across all aspects of the function, including shaping and championing the CAFM system.
•Managing the team of technicians to ensure safe, quality provision of repair, maintenance and shoring services in line with allocated jobs.
•Create, maintain, regularly review and present to internal stakeholders a live 5 year CAPEX lookahead picture per site of non-routine, CAPEX work scopes that require to be completed and therefore budgeted for, to allow appropriate financial planning and to ensure the long-term integrity, environmental efficiency and cost stability of facilities.
•Ensure Health & Safety compliance, both in terms of job execution by technicians and suppliers as well as with legislative testing/inspection regimes, through being a visibly engaged HSE leader and champion of Safety as a Fundamental Obsession.
•Act as a focal point for out-of-hours assistance, emergency responses, critical incidents and supervision of out-of-hours building/maintenance works.
Minimum Competencies (Skills, Knowledge and Behaviours)
•Experienced Facilities Manager, working in accordance with SFG20 guidelines.
•Technical Building Services experience, with knowledge of building codes, safety regulations and industry best practices
•Awareness and understanding of Statutory Compliance requirements.
•Supervisory and people management experience and qualities that are inclusive and influential across all levels of an organisation.
•Proactive and highly motivated with a can-do attitude and a hands-on approach, a strong team player, taking ownership and accountability for work.
•Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams and both internal and external stakeholders, excellent customer relationship management.
•Solutions based with strong planning, technical, co-ordinating and organising skills, and an excellent attention to detail.
•Accustomed to working effectively in a fast-paced environment, flexible and can adapt to changing workloads and priorities and emergency situations, where high standards are not compromised under pressure.
•Numeric and computer literate with excellent IT skills across the Microsoft suite.
Minimum Qualifications
•Member of Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM, formerly BIFM) or another FM professional body
•Full Drivers Licence
Desirable Qualifications/Competencies
•Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or equivalent
As you would expect from a highly progressive company, an attractive remuneration package is available to the successful applicant. When applying, your CV should include your current/most recent employment, which clearly demonstrates examples of the skills and behaviours required for the above role.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I)
ASCO is committed to supporting and promoting Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I). This commitment is embraced by our Group Board and our Management Board and informs all of our activities and their impact on our customers, employees and our stakeholders.
Closing Date:
16/06/2025
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What evidence can you provide to confirm your eligibility to work in the UK? A passport showing the holder, or a person named in the passport as the child of the holder, is a British citizen or a citizen of the UK and Colonies having the right of abode in the UK A birth (short or long) or adoption certificate issued in the UK, Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or Ireland, together with an official document giving the person's permanent National Insurance number and their name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer A share code to demonstrate digital immigration status under the EU Settlement Scheme A current Biometric Immigration Document (Biometric Residence Permit) issued by the Home Office to the holder indicating that the person named is allowed to stay indefinitely in the UK, or has no time limit on their stay in the UK A current passport endorsed to show that the holder is exempt from immigration control, is allowed to stay indefinitely in the UK, has the right of abode in the UK, or has no time limit on their stay in the UK A current Immigration Status Document issued by the Home Office to the holder with an endorsement indicating that the named person is allowed to stay indefinitely in the UK or has no time limit on their stay in the UK, together with an official document giving the person's permanent National Insurance number and their name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer A certificate of registration or naturalisation as a British citizen, together with an official document giving the person's permanent National Insurance number and their name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer A current passport endorsed to show that the holder is allowed to stay in the UK and is currently allowed to do the type of work in question A current Biometric Immigration Document (Biometric Residence Permit) issued by the Home Office to the holder which indicates that the named person can currently stay in the UK and is allowed to do the work in question A current Immigration Status Document containing a photograph issued by the Home Office to the holder with a valid endorsement indicating that the named person may stay in the UK, and is allowed to do the type of work in question, together with an official document giving the person's permanent National Insurance number and their name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer An Application Registration Card issued by the Home Office stating that the holder is permitted to take the employment in question None of the above
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Company: ASCO UK Limited
Employment Type: Full Time/Permanent
Hours of Work: 37.5 Monday - Friday
To lead and manage the Facilities Management team across ASCO's UK property portfolio. The role is responsible for the safe, timely, and professional delivery of all repair and maintenance activities, as well as the successful budgeting, planning, and execution of larger-scale, non-routine capital projects. This position ensures a robust, customer-focused service is delivered. The role is 'hands-on' in nature particularly around technical & hard services scopes, while also providing day-to-day management, leadership, and strategic direction to the facilities team.
Given the property portfolio, this role would suit an experienced facilities professional familiar with building surveying and construction work. Your experience will clearly demonstrate the ability to successfully lead a facilities management team and in doing so manage both in-house and third-party execution, including aspects of design and construction, maintenance, repair and refurbishment of buildings and infrastructure. Applicants must have the relevant skills and qualifications detailed to successfully lead and manage the performance of a technical, multi-disciplined team executing scopes across multiple sites. Key duties are to:
•Direct and manage all aspects of the facilities management function, combining both strategic direction and day-to-day oversight. Providing support and management to the team enabling the robust delivery of a customer focused service across all UK sites.
•Maintain and manage compliance of our property portfolio and infrastructure with all relevant statutory obligations.
•Project managing the delivery of larger scale, one off, non-routine work scopes to defined budgets and timelines. Co-ordinating contractor execution, managing works on-site to ensure projects are completed to a satisfactory standard and in accordance with all HSE requirements. Engaging with third party design teams including quantity surveyors as appropriate for scopes of greater complexity.
•For scopes fulfilled by suppliers, responsible for defining scopes of work incorporating and referencing applicable standards, to enable contract implementation and coverage.
•Providing technical oversight and guidance across all aspects of the function, including shaping and championing the CAFM system.
•Managing the team of technicians to ensure safe, quality provision of repair, maintenance and shoring services in line with allocated jobs.
•Create, maintain, regularly review and present to internal stakeholders a live 5 year CAPEX lookahead picture per site of non-routine, CAPEX work scopes that require to be completed and therefore budgeted for, to allow appropriate financial planning and to ensure the long-term integrity, environmental efficiency and cost stability of facilities.
•Ensure Health & Safety compliance, both in terms of job execution by technicians and suppliers as well as with legislative testing/inspection regimes, through being a visibly engaged HSE leader and champion of Safety as a Fundamental Obsession.
•Act as a focal point for out-of-hours assistance, emergency responses, critical incidents and supervision of out-of-hours building/maintenance works.
Minimum Competencies (Skills, Knowledge and Behaviours)
•Experienced Facilities Manager, working in accordance with SFG20 guidelines.
•Technical Building Services experience, with knowledge of building codes, safety regulations and industry best practices
•Awareness and understanding of Statutory Compliance requirements.
•Supervisory and people management experience and qualities that are inclusive and influential across all levels of an organisation.
•Proactive and highly motivated with a can-do attitude and a hands-on approach, a strong team player, taking ownership and accountability for work.
•Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams and both internal and external stakeholders, excellent customer relationship management.
•Solutions based with strong planning, technical, co-ordinating and organising skills, and an excellent attention to detail.
•Accustomed to working effectively in a fast-paced environment, flexible and can adapt to changing workloads and priorities and emergency situations, where high standards are not compromised under pressure.
•Numeric and computer literate with excellent IT skills across the Microsoft suite.
Minimum Qualifications
•Member of Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM, formerly BIFM) or another FM professional body
•Full Drivers Licence
Desirable Qualifications/Competencies
•Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or equivalent
As you would expect from a highly progressive company, an attractive remuneration package is available to the successful applicant. When applying, your CV should include your current/most recent employment, which clearly demonstrates examples of the skills and behaviours required for the above role.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I)
ASCO is committed to supporting and promoting Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I). This commitment is embraced by our Group Board and our Management Board and informs all of our activities and their impact on our customers, employees and our stakeholders.
Closing Date:
16/06/2025
Title
First Name
Middle Name
Surname
Address Line 1
Address Line 2
Address Line 3
Town/City
Province/State
Country
Postcode/ZIP Code
Mobile Number (including area code)
Email Address
Confirm Email Address
Are you willing to relocate to the job location? Yes No
Are you a former employee or contractor of ASCO or any of our Group Companies? Former Employee Former Contractor N/A
Do you know, or are you related to, an employee of ASCO or any of our Group Companies? Yes No
If yes, please provide details
Are you a member of the Armed Forces Community? Yes No
If yes, please provide details Cadet Regular Personnel Reservist Veteran Family (spouse/civil partner/child
Current Salary (in UK £)
Current benefits package and values e.g. pension 5%, car allowance, bonus etc.
Annual leave entitlement
Notice Period
Salary expectations for this role (in UK £)
What evidence can you provide to confirm your eligibility to work in the UK? A passport showing the holder, or a person named in the passport as the child of the holder, is a British citizen or a citizen of the UK and Colonies having the right of abode in the UK A birth (short or long) or adoption certificate issued in the UK, Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or Ireland, together with an official document giving the person's permanent National Insurance number and their name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer A share code to demonstrate digital immigration status under the EU Settlement Scheme A current Biometric Immigration Document (Biometric Residence Permit) issued by the Home Office to the holder indicating that the person named is allowed to stay indefinitely in the UK, or has no time limit on their stay in the UK A current passport endorsed to show that the holder is exempt from immigration control, is allowed to stay indefinitely in the UK, has the right of abode in the UK, or has no time limit on their stay in the UK A current Immigration Status Document issued by the Home Office to the holder with an endorsement indicating that the named person is allowed to stay indefinitely in the UK or has no time limit on their stay in the UK, together with an official document giving the person's permanent National Insurance number and their name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer A certificate of registration or naturalisation as a British citizen, together with an official document giving the person's permanent National Insurance number and their name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer A current passport endorsed to show that the holder is allowed to stay in the UK and is currently allowed to do the type of work in question A current Biometric Immigration Document (Biometric Residence Permit) issued by the Home Office to the holder which indicates that the named person can currently stay in the UK and is allowed to do the work in question A current Immigration Status Document containing a photograph issued by the Home Office to the holder with a valid endorsement indicating that the named person may stay in the UK, and is allowed to do the type of work in question, together with an official document giving the person's permanent National Insurance number and their name issued by a Government agency or a previous employer An Application Registration Card issued by the Home Office stating that the holder is permitted to take the employment in question None of the above
If none, please provide details
Additionally, please be advised if the name on your passport and tax documents are different to the name you currently use, we also require sight of the original marriage certificate or deed poll.
Where did you first hear about this vacancy?
If job board/referral/other, please provide details
Additional information to support your application
CV Upload
By submitting your application you agree and consent to our privacy notice and to us:
1 . click apply for full job details