Facilities Manager

Position: Facilities Manager

Salary: circa £40,000

Benefits: 30 days annual leave (plus option to purchase additional days), pension, 24/7 access to our employee assistance programme plus online access to a GP for you and your family (partner and children up to aged 21), employee discount across Heron Foods and B&M, money off a range of products and services via BenefitHub.

Heron Foods is one of the UK’s fastest-growing food retailers with over 330 stores across England and Wales. As part of the B&M retail group, we are really going places, with new store openings planned month-by-month. Last year we ranked at number 6 in Retail Week’s ‘Top UK Retailers to Work for in 2022’ based on Glassdoor reviews and as we have grown, we have retained the ethos and spirit of a family-owned business.

An opportunity has arisen for a proactive, forward thinking and service driven Facilities Manager to come and join our evolving Facilities Team. The role is based at our main distribution and store support centre in Melton East Yorkshire.

Being a key part of the wider Facilities team, you will help form the future of the facilities function across the business, reporting to the Senior Facilities Manager. Service is at the heart of everything we do and we are passionate about getting it right for our internal and external customers.

As the Facilities Manager your roles will include the following:

• Management of facilities (hard and soft) at our Melton distribution Centre and resources including cleaners (contract and internal) and sub-contractors. Services including planned and reactive works to the building services, refrigeration equipment, building fabric and associated support service aspects.
• Delivering a range of FM services to our 332 shops reported in via the Portal, and sent out to our inhouse regional maintenance operatives or external contractors as required.

• Directing, coordinating and planning essential services such as maintenance, cleaning and planned preventative maintenance in line with statutory guidelines and company procedures.
• Ensuring the buildings and assets meet H&S requirements and that facilities comply with legislation and issues are raised to the Senior Facilities Manager.
• Delivery of minor works such as energy saving measures as required e.g. LED lighting replacement schemes.
• Undertaking planned site inspections with documented actions, co-ordinating with contractors on site, initiating and managing any required resolution works.

The successful Facilities Manager will ideally have the following:

• Relevant qualification in a technical, property or FM discipline to HNC / HND level.
• Previous experience in managing the maintenance & repair of a range of building services & the building fabric.
• Negotiation with and supervision of contractors.
• Co-ordination and management of reactive & planned works.
• Working knowledge of statutory compliance related to building services.

What we can offer you:

• A salary of circa £40,000.
• 30 days annual leave with accrual of additional leave for long service plus option to purchase additional days.

• 24/7 online access to a GP for you and your family (partner and children up to aged 21)

• 10% discount across both Heron Foods and B&M stores; double discount weekends throughout the year.
• Wellbeing support via our 24/7 employee assistance program – Smart Health.
• Access to BenefitHub for you and your family for exclusive deals and discounts on everyday purchases, eating out, family days out, financial services etc.
• Ongoing learning and career development including on-the-job training, eLearning or apprenticeships.
• Reward and recognition schemes and celebration of long service & work anniversaries.

If this sounds like the role for you, we’d love to hear from you. You’ll be joining a progressive and expanding company which offers learning and opportunity to grow.

Additional keywords: Facilities Manager, Facilities Coordinator, Maintenance Manager, Facilities and Maintenance, FM.