Reference: WCC619966
Salary range: £41,580 - £55,710 per annum
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary up to 12 months
Closing date: 21 February 2025
Apply link: Facilities Manager (Workplace) WCC619966 Job Details | Shared Services Partnership
About Us:
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF TIFFENY’S POWERFUL VOICE
At Westminster City Council, we don’t just listen to the voices and experiences of our residents – we listen to our people too. Tiffeny is a single mum whose young son has ADHD and before joining our team, she never thought she’d find a job that gave her flexibility and freedom to support her son’s needs. As a neurodivergent woman herself, she also never expected to be part of a team that not only supports her needs, but actively celebrates them – where people encourage her to be her true self. And that’s what she found here at the City of Westminster.
Working as an Engagement Officer Within the corporate property team means that she gets to meet people from all walks of life within the community supporting the development of positive change, especially being the voice for young people where it matters – in education, training, or employment. Her experiences and her amazing ability to relate to others means that within the first few months of joining our team, she’d already made a huge impact on things like accessibility in the Borough. Tiffeny feels heard and that’s because we know how important it is to listen.
The Role:
As a Facilities Manager in our Corporate Property team, you can make your own powerful contribution to the way our people feel about the places where they work. Overseeing your own portfolio of properties, you’ll focus on everything from planned maintenance, to health and safety and environmental issues. There will be a strong focus on customer service and responding to the needs of building occupiers. We’ll look to you to carry out regular site visits and inspections, and to resolve a wide range of issues. You will also manage a team of Workplace Officers.
About You:
Energetic, motivated and proactive, with an eye for detail, you’ll be keen to learn and progress. You’re likely to have a background in facilities management including overseeing contracts and contractor relationships. You’ll hold or be willing to work towards relevant qualifications such as IWFM, IOSH or NEEBOSH.
You have the customer relationship management skills to engage successfully with senior managers and offer pragmatic solutions to problems. Highly organised and able to manage your own workload, you’re also an effective team member. Some IT skills are important for data input and data management.
Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster.
Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties
As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
