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Strategic Manager - Facilities Management

Employer
Kirklees Metropolitan Council
Location
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Salary
£49,497 - £50,396
Closing date
12 Sep 2021

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Huddersfield’s towns and valleys weave together vibrant, young, dynamic communities with breath-taking Yorkshire landscape. The Kirklees area has built on its proud industrial heritage by being a place that encourages innovation and entrepreneurship.

Our vision for Kirklees is to be a district which combines a strong, sustainable economy with a great quality of life - leading to thriving communities, growing businesses, high prosperity and low inequality where people enjoy better health throughout their lives. As we strive to deliver fantastic services to our residents, we want to attract the very best people to help deliver our vision.

This post represents an exciting, diverse and challenging opportunity to become the new Strategic Manager for Facilities Management at Kirklees Council. You will be leading an existing team dedicated to delivering an FM service for corporate buildings and land that ensures that the Council meets its statutory and legislative requirements around land and property Health & Safety and compliance and delivers great value for money and innovation in the ways that we meet the needs of our customers and residents.

We are looking for an individual who is passionate about property and land compliance and Health & Safety, someone who has a wealth of experience and knowledge in Facilities Management, preferably in a local government setting but this is not an essential requirement, and who has a track record of successfully managing and motivating a large team.

You will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and great interpersonal skills. This post is a great opportunity for a strongly motivated individual with highly developed organisational and negotiation skills, who is prepared to work flexibly and as part of a team, in a high profile, demanding and political environment.

If this person is you then we look forward to hearing from you.

At Kirklees Council, we want to support your professional development to give you the right skills, confidence, and support to enable you to achieve your full potential. We offer a variety of courses and training designed for this purpose.

We value the importance of having a good work life balance so we offer provisions as an employer such as flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, a variety of special leave policies and employee healthcare services.

Please read the attached Job Profile and refer to the section detailing the essential and desirable criteria for this position. In your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the shortlisting criteria.

Based in Huddersfield Town Centre though currently working from home. Hybrid system of office and home working is the likely future working model. The successful candidate will be expected to travel around Kirklees as part of the remit of this role.

For more information about this post please contact Jonathan Quarmby – Strategic Manager for Facilities Management - on 01484 221000.

Closing date

12 September 2021, 11:55 PM

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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