Area Estates & Facilities Manager

JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Workplace
LOCATION: Salford - Hybrid (minimum 3 days per week in the office and a requirement to visit specified regional sites).
SALARY RANGE: £65,000 - £73,000pa depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

As an Area Estates & Facilities Manager you'll play a key role in the operational management of a regional estate, managing suppliers and stakeholders.

This is a hands on, fast paced role where no two days are the same. You'll work closely with internal and external stakeholders, service providers, and contractors to ensure our estate is safe, sustainable, and fit for purpose.

In addition to ensuring BBC standards are adhered to and exemplify our BBC Values enabling colleagues to do their best work to serve all audiences, you will also manage property change projects delivering thoughtfully designed, fresh and vibrant workplace for staff to work in and for audiences to visit. Additionally, you will ensure BBC buildings and sites are safe, secure, sustainable and on air.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

You'll be joining a small, highly experienced team where collaboration, trust, and shared expertise are at the core of everything we do. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from seasoned professionals while making a real impact from day one.

BBC Workplace operates the BBC's UK estate, providing facilities management services and managing property and construction projects so to ensure the organisation's physical workplaces are safe, well maintained, cost effective, and suitable for employees' needs so people can work productively, as a team we play a major role in ensuring the BBC stays on air!

Our ambition is to operate inspiring places for people to collaborate, broadcast, create and perform whilst maximising the use of new and more efficient buildings, and reducing the size and cost of the BBC estate. We view the BBC from a unique and data driven perspective that enables us to deliver savings through property and people focused initiatives back into programme making.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Accountable for the service providers delivering estate services in line with contract specification and Service Level Agreements to each site.
• Manage estates and facility management services to ensure the efficient day to day operation of the BBC's estate to a high and professional standard ensuring suppliers adhere to BBC policies and procedures.
• As part of a wider estate management team, contribute to the future planning of improvements for the facility, reviewing requests and proposals from end users.
• Manage operating costs and budgets for the facility, including all Workplace costs and approval of expenditure of allocated budget.
• To work closely with the BBC Health and Safety team, to identify and manage health and safety issues relating to on site works, contractors and the building environment.
• Continually look for cost effective improvements with regards to estate management and Workplace services.
• Undertake reviews of services provided to ensure they are in line with contract specification, addressing any performance issues where necessary.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Proven Facilities Manager capable of managing multi site estates and experience of running sites sensitive to business continuity issues.
• Strong track record of delivery, securing best value and ensuring high standards from third party suppliers.
• Health and safety qualifications such as IOSH or NEBOSH.
• Demonstrable delivery focus, with a positive and creative approach to change, dealing effectively with complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity. You will be highly organised, able to prioritise tasks and deal with business critical issues as well as conflicting demands.
• Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop, maintain and enhance collaborative relationships with a variety of internal and external contacts.

DESIRABLE

• BIFM membership.
• Health and safety qualifications such as IOSH or NEBOSH.
• Ability to communicate clearly and diplomatically, building positive relationships while identifying practical solutions to challenges.
• Effective communicator, capable of writing articles and reports and of managing and manipulating data. This will be supported by strong computer literacy, able to use common computer packages such as Microsoft word, excel etc.

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35 hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

We have a working environment where we value and respect each individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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