ROLE: Facilities Manager
HOURS: 40 hours per week
LOCATION: Luton, LU4 9FJ
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Facilities Manager who will provide operational leadership and Facilities Management support across school sites, ensuring contractual compliance, excellent service delivery, and strong client relationships.
- Manage and support operational teams to deliver Facilities Management services in line with contractual requirements, KPIs and Mitie standards.
- Monitor service delivery performance, compliance, planned preventative maintenance programmes, and subcontractor performance across multiple school sites.
- Support the Account Manager with contract management, budgeting, procurement activities, lifecycle projects, and contract variations.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, school representatives, subcontractors, and key stakeholders to ensure excellent service delivery.
- Ensure compliance with Health & Safety legislation, safeguarding requirements, auditing processes, and contractual obligations while producing regular performance reports.
Applicants must meet the below defined requirements for the role.
- Relevant Facilities Management qualification or demonstrable experience within a similar Facilities Management environment, supported by continuous professional development.
- Proven experience managing Facilities Management contracts, with strong knowledge of compliance, stakeholder management, service delivery, and operational performance.
- Strong commercial, financial, communication, people management, problem-solving, and IT skills, including competency with Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word.
There's a place for you at Mitie, join us today!
Mitie is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
If you are working in regulated activity please note that you are subject to the following:
- It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group (i.e. vulnerable adults, children or both).
- This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and Mitie is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children or vulnerable adults.
