Operations Manager - Fabric

Skanska, one of the world's largest development and construction companies, dates back 135 years and had a 2021 revenue of around £12.5 billion. We have 3,300 experts in the UK alone, could joining us be your next career move?

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Our Building Services team are looking for an Operations Manager to join the team on-site at one of our Critical Sites in Central London

The purpose of the role will be to manage the Fabric team of technicians to complete Planned, Reactive and Small-Scale Extra Works, required to meet the contract obligations and Service Level Agreement. Manage the fabric outsourced packages and conduct BAU project & lifecycle works. To coordinate these works with the Technical, H&S and Administration teams to ensure all works are correctly planned and delivered to meet statutory and mandatory requirements.

You'll:

• To manage 3 operational workstreams; Planned, Reactive and Project Works.
• Manage the teams of technicians to meet the contractual and business work schedules.
• Ensure that employees under your remit are competent and trained to work to the required quality and output of work required by the contract.
• Work alongside the Technical team to understand the recommendations and solutions that are required for specific works and ensure that the operations team's works are competed accurately.
• Responsible for the financial performance (P&L) and to set and achieve budgeted results of the three workstreams.
• Support the Project team with client and customer to ensure a culture of collaborative working exists.
• Act as a point of escalation shared with the site management team on all out of hours activities.
• Demonstrable experience in Hard Facilities Management.
  
• Experience managing fabric teams and multi skilled package management (e.g. Electrical, Mechanical).
  
• Excellent Stakeholder Management skills.
  
  NEBOSH qualification is preferred and IOSH is a minimum requirement.
• Project management experience, including familiarity with CDM and risk management.

Equal opportunities

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We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

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More information about the role

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