Facilities Officer

**About The Role**:
**Working Hours**: 35 Hours, Monday to Friday between 6am - 6pm

**Contract Type**: Full Time, Permanent
- Driving Licence - you must always hold a full valid driving licence.

As a Facilities Officer you will manage a quality Facilities Management service within a designated team but also have a service wide role.

If you have the following skills & experience, then we want to hear from you
- Ability to lead and motivate a team of staff.
- The ability to demonstrate effective management of people and resources.
- Management of internal and external contracts.
- Commitment and knowledge to ensure compliance with health & safety procedures.
- Excellent communication skills to enable collaborative working with customers, colleagues, internal, external contractors and suppliers.
- Enthusiastic, hardworking and a committed team member.
- Recognise your own personal development needs and support staff, through appraisal, to identify their individual needs.
- Excellent time management with the ability to take a proactive approach whilst also dealing with reactive issues.

The Facilities Officer will contribute towards the goals of the team through the provision of high quality and responsive facilities management.

Your main responsibilities will be:

- Carrying out safety inspections and reporting defects to ensure safe working environments.
- Managing orders for maintenance and repair works in line with procedure, budgets and timescales.
- Deal efficiently with all internal and external customer correspondence.
- Undertaking the management of resources, including the direct line management of a team.

**About Us**:

- We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.
- When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here.
- To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ - the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:

- We take time to listen and understand
- We work together and trust each other
- We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
- We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
- We’re proud and passionate about Manchester
- A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.**Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council**-
**Guaranteed Interview Scheme**

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

**Accessibility**

As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work.**When you join us**

We want everyone to be able to be themselves at work and give their best. If you need additional support to undertake the duties of the role, we’ll make every effort to source any necessary aids, adaptations or equipment. If, however, any task proves to be unachievable, we will look at redesigning parts of the role.**Other relevant information**
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
- Our Manchester Strategy/Behaviours.pdf
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