Senior Facilities Manager

• Directly manage a dedicated portfolio of residential properties across the North of England, ensuring buildings are compliant with relevant Health and Safety, Fire Safety and Building Safety legislations, well maintained and operated effectively.
• Take personal responsibility for statutory compliance, planned and reactive maintenance, building performance, contractors, lifecycle planning, budgets and customer outcomes.
• Lead a small FM team and ensure equivalent standards across their allocated properties.
• Support and train onsite teams and directly deliver building-specific resident engagement where required.
• Support the Head of Facilities Management and Building Safety in delivering a consistent service aligned with Grainger’s values.
• Set and maintain high standards for facilities, health, safety and environmental management across the dedicated portfolio and team-managed properties.
• Take direct responsibility for statutory maintenance, PPM, reactive maintenance and compliance actions, ensuring timely, evidenced completion.
• Ensure team members deliver equivalent standards through clear objectives, review, challenge and assurance.
• Undertake weekly visits to each directly managed estate/property to review compliance, building condition, records, service delivery and actions.
• Undertake quarterly assurance visits to estates/properties managed by team members.

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Founded in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1912, Grainger plc, a FTSE 250 business, is the UK’s largest listed residential landlord and leader in the fast-growing build-to-rent sector, providing c.11,100 rental homes to over 25,000 customers. With a pipeline of secured build-to-rent development projects totalling c.4,500 homes and £1.3bn, Grainger is creating thousands more rental homes by investing in cities across the UK.

Grainger works in partnership with a large number of public sector organisations to deliver new homes to local communities, including Transport for London, Network Rail, the Ministry of Defence, Lewisham Borough Council and the Local Pensions Partnership.

Grainger’s build-to-rent developments provide a range of customer benefits from professional on-site resident services teams, resident amenities including gyms, residents’ lounges, roof terraces, meeting rooms and co-working space for those working from home, and superfast 250MB fibre optic broadband.

Recognised as a FTSE4

Good business, Grainger also takes a leading approach to sustainability, specifically Environmental and Social issues (ESG) and has an ambitious target to be net zero carbon in the operations of its buildings by 2030, to have a diverse and inclusive workforce and to make a positive social impact in locations where it invests and operates.