Facilities Manager
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Operations
HVAC
Hard Services
Facilities Management (main)
Estates, Property
The role will be flexibly worked but will necessarily require attendance at site locations across the Borough, and also occasionally out of Tameside One, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Tameside Borough Council is embarking on a programme of radical change to meet the challenges of modern local government, public service reform and integrated health/social care. Fast paced improvement across the Council is being driven by a highly motivated, integrated leadership team, who are pushing the boundaries to dramatically change culture, modernise services and identify innovative ways to manage service demand.
Our recently appointed Assistant Director of Strategic Property and the Director of Place have undertaken a review of the directorate's services and are restructuring to align all council property related functions. Reporting to the Head of Corporate Facilities Management, Energy Climate and Capital Programmes you will line manage the Councils Facilities Management Team.
About You
You will manage a defined portfolio of the Councils property assets having responsibility for all aspects of the safe and efficient operation and maintenance of the properties, proactively managing service contracts to ensure that the Council receives value for money and service excellence.
As a member of the Corporate Facilities Management leadership team and the Strategic Property Services wider Management Team you will play a key role in the delivery of Council and Growth Directorate priorities, transformation of our property functions, integrate existing services and build new service delivery methods. You will support the implementation of a Strategic Asset Management Plan and delivery of all the Council's projects and programmes.
You will work with a wide range of partners and stakeholders, including Schools, Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, to get optimum results.
An experienced facilities management professional, with significant experience of working in a large organisation managing a wide property portfolio, you will be able to work at pace with enthusiasm and be able to engage with and influence a range of partners at all levels.
About Us
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
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For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager, Ben Middleton, Assistant Director Strategic Property on 0161 342 2950.
Closing date: 1 August 2024.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria
