Area Manager

About The Role

Location: Burton On Trent (will be working in other areas such as Birmingham if required)

Salary: £29,500 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours Per Week: 40

Responsibilities

• Meet and, where possible, exceed client expectations while operating within agreed budgets.
• Recruit, induct, and train suitable staff while ensuring compliance with vetting procedures.
• Maintain staffing levels to ensure contract standards are met.
• Control wage spend in line with agreed budgets set by the Regional Manager and Account Director.
• Monitor client satisfaction and service delivery through regular meetings and reports.
• Conduct frequent site visits, both planned and random, to ensure service delivery standards are met, escalating any issues as required.
• Perform audits, including compliance and quality checks, on a monthly basis.
• Develop and implement strategies to reduce staff turnover through structured induction programs, training, performance management, and personal coaching.
• Oversee the site based training matrix to ensure all personnel receive necessary training.
• Ensure all site documentation is accurate and up to date.
• Manage equipment, materials, and supplies within agreed budgets.
• Ensure all Atlas FM personnel follow site rules and maintain a professional appearance.
• Uphold Atlas FM's values, ensuring activities align with quality management, health and safety regulations, legal requirements, and corporate responsibility policies.
• Complete electronic time and attendance records.

About You

We are looking for a compassionate and proactive leader with experience in people management. Ideally, you will be based in the area and enjoy maintaining strong relationships with both clients and staff.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

• Ability to work effectively in a busy environment and communicate with people at all levels.
• Strong people management and client relationship skills.
• Excellent problem solving and decision making abilities.
• Strong team ethic and a flexible approach to work.
• Attention to detail and ability to accurately record data.
• Health and safety awareness/training.
• Strong customer service skills.
• IT literacy and the ability to use reporting tools effectively.
• Full UK driving licence.
• The successful candidate will be required to have an Enhanced DBS check.

Before You Apply

This will be a competency based interview, so you will be asked to provide specific examples of your experience and ability to deliver on key responsibilities.

If you are enthusiastic, take pride in your work, and have great attention to detail, you will fit in perfectly with our award winning team.

Apply now!

Benefits

• Full learning and support from Atlas to help you succeed in your role.
• Financial wellbeing benefits via Stream - real time access to earned wages and exclusive discounts at top retailers.
• Career progression opportunities within a growing company.
• Tailored learning and development support in areas that interest you.
• Recognition programs, including our Stars of Atlas awards.
• Cycle to work scheme and workplace pension.
• A collaborative and supportive work environment where people value and help each other.
• An opportunity to work in a fast growing business with significant career advancement potential.

About The Company

Atlas is a family of people drawn together by a passion for creating happiness in others. Founded in 1986 and 100% owned by our employees, we are now one of the fastest growing business support companies in the UK, providing cleaning, security, pest and other support services to a wide range of companies, from globally recognised brands to small local businesses. Our success is down to one thing; the passion and commitment of our extended family, who together deliver happiness across thousands of client sites every single day.

To ensure we remain focused on our purpose as we grow, we recruit first and foremost on our values so for those committed to living them alongside us, there is no better place to work.

Our purpose is to create happiness in ourselves and others. We approach work and life with a sense of fun, optimism and belief, and strive to have a positive impact on the world around us. We show kindness and compassion to all those we meet, ensuring everyone is safe and healthy. We deliver on our promises and go the extra mile every day.

Our values: We are a family, sharing makes us stronger, knowledge is more powerful when its shared, own your space, be honest. Always, have the courage to do the right thing, even when no one is watching. Be yourself. Authenticity breeds trust. Treat clients like our best friends. Start with wow. And never settle for less.

We are a business that thrives on doing. The more we do, the more we succeed. Embrace change. Keep it simple, keep meetings short, plan just enough to succeed, and then get on with it.

Atlas commits to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such aims to ensure that no employee or job applicant receives less favourable treatment or is placed at a disadvantage by imposed conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justified because of a protected characteristic. Atlas strives to see its workforce broadly reflecting the community in which its operation is based.