Facilities Manager (Benson)
Sub Division: Defence
Location: Didcot
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time - 40 hours - Monday to Friday
Creating and maintaining great places to live and work delivered by excellent people who care…
Purpose of Role
We’re recruiting for an experienced Facilities Manager to oversee the delivery of hard FM services across a key Defence site at Benson Barracks, with occasional support required at Dalton Barracks.
Job Description
This is a hands-on management role leading a team of 12 multi-disciplinary engineers delivering planned and reactive maintenance services across the estate. You’ll be responsible for ensuring operational performance, compliance, and service excellence, while managing health & safety, audits, recruitment, and small quoted works/projects on site.
The successful candidate will bring strong facilities management experience within a hard services environment and be confident managing internal engineering teams in a fast-paced, customer-focused setting. A technical background in either electrical or mechanical disciplines would be highly advantageous, although we are open to candidates with strong FM leadership experience who may not hold formal technical qualifications.
Responsibilities
•Previous experience in a Facilities Manager or Hard FM management role
•Experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams within a self-delivery model
•Strong understanding of hard FM compliance, statutory maintenance, and SFG20
•Knowledge of health & safety legislation and safe systems of work
•Experience managing audits, compliance reporting, and contractor performance
•IOSH qualification or equivalent desirable
•Technical qualifications in electrical or mechanical disciplines advantageous but not essential
•Strong communication, organisational, and stakeholder management skills
Essential Qualifications/Skills
•Previous experience in a Facilities Manager or Hard FM management role
•Experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams within a self-delivery model
•Strong understanding of hard FM compliance, statutory maintenance, and SFG20
•Knowledge of health & safety legislation and safe systems of work
•Experience managing audits, compliance reporting, and contractor performance
•IOSH qualification or equivalent desirable
•Technical qualifications in electrical or mechanical disciplines advantageous but not essential
•Strong communication, organisational, and stakeholder management skills
In return for your hard work we offer additional training and development, 26 days holiday (+ bank holidays), generous pension contribution, life assurance and much more.
We are VINCI Facilities – experts in the built environment. VINCI Facilities is a Facilities Management and Building Solutions provider, delivering cost-effective and sustainable bespoke solutions to customers in the public and private sectors. We are committed to working towards a lower carbon society, focusing on sustainable and innovative methods to exceed our partners' goals and add value for all stakeholders – and we were named the top-ranked FM service provider in the Sustainable FM Index for 2020. We put our people first. Always working as a team and collaborating from start to finish. We are the trusted expert in the built environment because we listen to our team and create a workplace that maximises their potential.
Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Facilities is about recognising and celebrating each other’s differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.
VINCI recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.