Regional Hard Facilities Manager – North Region - Fresh Property Group

Here at Fresh Property Group, we are looking for a Regional Hard Facilities Manager to join us on a permanent, full time basis covering our North Region predominantly of buildings located in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland.

Reporting to the Associate Director of Maintenance, you will support the regions site based teams with all the hard facilities management based activities.

This role will be home based, but will require regular travel, preferably utilising trains although use of own car where necessary will be reimbursed. Travel requirement will vary during the year with occasional overnight stays as required. It also includes minimal out of hours emergency calls.

About You

This role would suit an individual who has proven M&E engineering qualifications along with 3 years senior management experience in a multi-site hard FM biased environment. Highly motivated and enthusiastic, you’ll be able to manage a busy workload and remotely support, diagnose and advise on M&E issues to non-technical staff such as electrical, heating, water and life safety systems, as well as general day to day maintenance and fabric issues.

A strong team player who has excellent time management and prioritisation skills, you will have good knowledge of Health and Safety regulations and compliance within the built environment along with experience of managing third party contractors on reactive and planned maintenance works.

A sound understanding of fire alarms systems and legislation appropriate to Scotland is highly desirable.

A Health & Safety qualification such as NEBOSH (or similar) would be advantageous, as would experience of mobilising new buildings and providing building training.

About Us

Part of The Watkins Jones Group, Fresh Property Group is a leading third-party manager of purpose-built residential accommodation. We work with developers, investors and universities to turn great buildings into great places to live.

Why Join Us?

In return for your hard work and dedication, we can offer you some extensive benefits which include; 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, 10 days company sick pay, a contributory pension scheme, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, work place nursery scheme and Perkbox.

This is a Blue Octopus Recruitment Ltd vacancy who are operating as an employment agency. Once you have clicked to apply for this vacancy, we will then send you more information on the role including a copy of the application form via email.