Team Manager – Facilities
Job Description
Landmarc Support Services have an exciting opening for Team Manager to manage the service provision across the training area and facilities at Brunswick. You will be responsible for the management and allocation of Training Facilities as well as the wider rural estate.
This is an exciting role for anyone that has a solid foundation in an operational management role and is looking to develop their career within a unique environment.
Package Description
Landmarc will provide you with a competitive salary; in addition to this, we also offer the following main benefits, amongst many others:
Pension
Landmarc offers all employees an opportunity to join our company stakeholder pension scheme, whereby the company will contribute up to 8% of the employee’s salary.
Holiday
Employees are entitled to 25 days’ pro rata during each year of employment plus public holidays. Three extra discretionary days added to our annual leave allowances at Christmas.
Annual leave allowance will increase in recognition of your continued service.
Holiday purchase – purchase up to 10 more days’ holiday to use throughout the year.
Other benefits
Edenred – employee savings scheme
Tusker – salary sacrifice car scheme
Annual salary review, in consultation with the recognised Trade Unions
Life assurance insured for three times your annual salary, to help the loved ones.
Reimbursement of professional fees and on-going training
Family friendly policy
Sick pay
Main Responsibilities
Primary duties
- To line manage a team of people being responsible for (but not limited to) managing performance, attendance, behaviour, capability, welfare, health and safety and record keeping.
- To ensure that all people are capable of completing the tasks they are allocated and that resources are fit for purpose in order to deliver the contract, e.g.:
- Manage day to day workloads to ensure that work orders & PPM’s are completed to the necessary standard and on time
- Task allocation, workload planning, performance monitoring and work checking
- Manage individual and team performance, as well as motivation and target setting
- Manage team skills and capability
- Manage the use of resources and equipment (plant, vehicles etc.)
- Ensure operatives are fully employed, with a ‘can do’ attitude, sharing spare capacity across the Region/Company as and when required
- Produce risk assessments and method statements for various tasks as required
- Record keeping (i.e. plant, vehicles, HR, H&S, etc.)
- To ensure that the facilities are fit for purpose in accordance with the booking allocation and compliance with the contract, e.g.:
- Manage accommodation usage and bids, as well as carry out routine inspections to identify any maintenance tasks
- Ensure the tasks identified, or requested, across the estate are monitored and completed to the required standards
- Manage military accounts such as stores and POL
- Manage delivery plans as delegated by the Rural Estate Delivery Advisor, Built Estate Delivery Advisor and National Training Area Managers
- Work with the Maintenance Manager to manage, monitor and allocate any bought in services or contractors
- Identify best practice and promote continuous improvement in line with industry standards, contract requirements, environmental best practice and compliance
- To liaise with all stakeholders to ensure effective accommodation, facilities, and training area delivery, e.g.:
- Local and regional support through technical and specialist advice on site facilities and training areas
- Handover/ take back of facilities with service users including providing information on ‘maximising’ the use of the facility and camp
- Effective and accurate use of BAMs, or other booking processes, including the production and on-time submission of monthly updates and accounts
- Manage stakeholder communications and provide direction and advice to all training estate users, including the general public.
- To complete all relevant documentation utilising both IT and paper based systems.
The Ideal Candidate
What you know
- Knowledge of management theories and techniques and proven people management experience.
- Understanding of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and contractual requirements.
- Experience of communicating with customers.
- Knowledge of facilities management systems and H&S, such as CoSHH, BICSc., manual handling, risk assessments and safe systems of work to IOSH Managing Safely level.
- Knowledge of workload scheduling and work order processes, preferably in a multi- tasking environment.
What you can do
- Highly developed people management skills including providing feedback (both positive and negative) to ensure teams are motivated and engaged.
- Able to plan and deliver service requirements to tight deadlines and appropriate quality standards
- Able to scutinise and prioritise all necessary purchases and manage budgets to best advantage
- Able to communicate clearly with people at all levels
- Able to drive continuous improvement, including maintaining your own up to date knowledge of essential operating systems and industry standards
- Able to performance manage individuals, teams and outputs by utilising appraisal processes and other management tools.
- Good general IT skills and a working knowledge of relevant MS packages.
About The Company
Landmarc provides the support services that enable Armed Forces from around the world to prepare for frontline military operations across the UK Defence Training Estate (DTE). This includes maintaining and delivering safe and sustainable infrastructure, managing and operating training areas and ranges and delivering multi-million pound projects to improve vital training assets.
By joining Landmarc you will be supporting our vision to provide the best training experience we can for our Armed Forces. We are the first and only Special Purpose Vehicle to be contracted by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) as their Industry Partner on the UK Defence Training Estate and the only company that is solely dedicated to the UK DTE, delivering essential support services since 2003.
