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An exciting opportunity has now arisen for a Hard Facilities Manager to join our team. This role will oversee the delivery of Hard FM services (planned, preventative and responsive repairs) including health, safety, quality and performance across a number of healthcare sites in Essex. Rydon Maintenance is an expanding division of the Rydon Group and is successfully providing hard facilities management services to a variety of clients, predominantly within the healthcare sector. Rydon Maintenance provides hard FM (facilities management) services across England for a growing number of NHS Trusts. We look after more than 250 buildings on behalf of 20 NHS Trusts on a planned, responsive and small works projects basis. We provide maintenance services to acute hospital, ambulance, primary care and mental health trusts. Job Purpose This is a varied role where you will be the point of contact for all operational issues to ensure the delivery of an effective hard facilities maintenance service in line with contractual obligations and budgetary constraints. Managing a skilled maintenance team delivering planned and reactive maintenance you will ensure contract compliance with all statutory regulations, current legislation and local codes of practice and policies across the sites. Specific key duties include:

• Ensure that we deliver an outstanding maintenance and repairs service by providing excellent team leadership, long term planning of resources and delivering continuous improvements to the services/operations we provide.
• Ensure contractual commitments are met in accordance with KPI s/SLA s
• Managing these contracts on a day to day basis you will use your influence and impact to maximise financial profit levels and effectively manage risk while meeting or exceeding contractual key performance indicators.
• You will have responsibility for daily, weekly, monthly and annual planning and attending client contract monitoring meetings ensuring that all supporting documentation are available to demonstrate service delivery performance.
• You will build a balanced well performing team around you with a constant eye on succession planning. You will ensure your team understands what their job entails and that they carry out their job to a consistently high level by setting and driving stretching targets whilst ensuring our Company and Clients Policies and Procedures are adhered to.
• Identify and mitigate risk in all areas of contract and operational performance.
• Control and monitor the performance of the specialist service providers and any sub contractors.
  
  The preferred candidate will have previous experience gained in a Hard Facilities Management role, perhaps as Contract Manager, Hard Services Manager, Hard Facilities Manager or Account Manager. Ideally you'll also have some previous PFI (Private Finance Initiative) experience.
You will have managed services across a multi-site operation, with experience gained ideally within a healthcare/NHS setting. You may have worked directly for the NHS, for an FM contractor providing service to the NHS or for a consultancy delivering services into this market. We will however also consider candidates with experience gained within a commercial maintenance environment (for example the maintenance of other public buildings). You will also have excellent previous experience of leading teams that manage directly employed and subcontracted trades with up to date knowledge/qualifications within health and safety. You will have strong financial acumen, using your expertise to ensure that the financial interests of both Rydon and our Clients are managed. You will also demonstrate excellent long-term planning/strategic thinking in order to recommend and implement continuous improvements to benefit our client and Rydon.


• A competitive starting salary.
• A car allowance of £5.472 per annum.
• 25 days annual holiday.
• Holiday Purchase Scheme: Buy up to an additional 5 days holiday
• Pension Scheme: 4.5% contributory.
• Health Cash Plan: helping you spread the cost of essential healthcare
• 24/7 EAP Service: free advice, counselling and support for you and your family whenever you need it.
• Wellbeing and mental health champions readily available at work.
• Access to an employee discount scheme which includes a wide-range of special offers and discounts on insurances, lifestyle goods and services.
• Flexible benefits for you to choose from including Private Medical, Critical Illness, DenPlan and Cycle to work schemes.
• Employee Referral Scheme: recommend a personal connection to us and claim a cash reward for their successful hire.
• Free Flu Vaccinations
• Full training, ongoing coaching and support
• Opportunities to progress your career across the business
This is an excellent opportunity with onward development for you and the team you lead., As a well established, progressive company we are committed to attracting and retaining individuals by offering an excellent benefits package that includes a wide range of core and voluntary benefits.