Facilities Manager
The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust is a Royal Navy & Royal Marine charity that gives help, in cases of need, to serving and former Royal Naval ratings and Royal Marines. We also help their partners, children and some others connected with them. The RNBT has a ‘family-run’ feel and we have carefully created a supportive, friendly and close-knit team making it a unique and very special place to work.
We are now recruiting for a Facilities Manager.
The post-holder will be integral to the work of the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust. Responsible for the maintenance of our buildings and site equipment as well as the Health and Safety strategy for the Charity, the Facilities Manager is a crucial role in providing a safe, compliant environment for our staff and residents across our Head Office, Care Homes and residential alms-house services.
The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust operates in Portsmouth, Gillingham, Kent and Hornchurch in Essex. It is anticipated that the post-holder will be Portsmouth based with a requirement for regular travel to Gillingham and occasional travel to Hornchurch and will oversee the provision of buildings, maintenance, repairs, equipment and health and safety. Supported by a team of Maintenance Technicians, the post-holder will report to the Chief Executive and work closely with the Chief of Staff and Home Managers.
Key responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Planning and coordinating maintenance programmes. This will include emergency or unscheduled repairs, planned maintenance and capital projects
- Responsible for prioritising maintenance projects across the Trust in line with existing staffing and budgetary provision
- Liaise with managers to ensure maintenance requirements are carried out in a timely, cost-effective manner that ensures best value for the Trust
- Ensure all equipment is properly serviced and maintained and all records pertaining to any works are accurately recorded and stored
- Oversee maintenance contracts that are in place and liaise with external providers appointing trusted partners to carry out work that ensures best value for the trust
- Management of a small team of maintenance staff across several sites
- NEBOSH qualified H&S organisational lead, responsible for risk assessments, trend analysis and all things H&S
- Liaise in a friendly, approachable manner with all stakeholders, managing enquiries and requests for support in a timely, professional manner
- Effectively coordinate and ensure the effective day to day management of our maintenance and gardening teams
- Act as Health and Safety lead for the RNBT, upskill managers and ensure in-house training requirements are up to date and fit for purpose
- Ensuring all aspects of building compliance and safety are maintained
- Able to identify potential breaches in Health & Safety requirements and effectively plan and coordinate any remedial action
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement where appropriate (safe equipment, PPE, safe handling of substance etc)
- Ensure accurate monitoring and auditing of health and safety policy and procedures across the RNBT
- Ensure up to date risk assessments are in place where appropriate
- A DBS check will be required for the post-holder
About You
Having experience of working in a social care, housing or similar setting would be advantageous but is not essential. Experience of managing a team and delivering an effective service across multiple sites is essential and the post-holder must be willing to travel regularly.
A NEBOSH Diploma is preferred and any additional qualifications such as Fire Safety Certification would be beneficial.
It is essential that the post-holder is able to build effective relationships with our multi-disciplinary team. We operate with our naval heritage firmly embedded into our culture and values and welcome applicants from the veteran community or from those who have naval links although this is not essential!
We are a friendly, welcoming and supportive team who work to support people across all age ranges and at different stages of life, whenever they might need our help. Empathy, understanding and compassion is a requirement for all of our people and is at the heart of everything we do.
What we Offer
In addition to salary we offer a generous suite of benefits to our employees including
- Medicash health plan
- 26 days holiday plus bank holidays and 3 days Christmas shut down
- 7% employer contribution pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free on-site parking
- Eligible for blue light card
CLOSING DATE FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2024
If you would like to find out more about working for The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust please contact us at hr@rnbt.org.uk or click ‘apply now’ and complete our application form and one of our team will come back to you.
For more information on the RNBT and to find out what it’s like to work for us please visit us at www.rnbt.org.uk
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