Assistant Facilities Manager

Dalkia have an opportunity for an Assistant Facilities Manager to join our team at Sizewell C near Leiston.

We are looking for someone ideally with a background in facilities, to join the team and provide support to the Facilities Manager, at a recently constructed building which is currently the centre of operations for our Sizewell C project. You will provide crucial support to the management team and the support staff, in ensuring that the building is delivering safe and compliant activities and services across the site and maintained to a high standard, allowing our client EDF to carry out successful business operations across the project.

Overview of responsibilities

• Support the Facilities Manager with all activities and services within the property
• Ensure a safe working environment is maintained for customers, staff and contractors and that Health and safety and EDF “lifesaving” rules are met on site.
• Assist the Facilities Manager with planning the work of contractors and in-house teams to deliver essential core services such as reception, security, maintenance, mail, cleaning, waste disposal and catering; using best allocation of team resources.
• Checking that agreed work by staff or contractors has been completed satisfactorily and following up on any deficiencies, carrying out monthly audits on the cleaning standards and sending reports on time to the Helpdesk
• Assisting the Facilities Manager with the delivery of a fully compliant site, supporting with uploading documents to the Helpdesk team and escalating all non-compliant elements to the compliance team. Work with the Landlord team and ensure all Landlord non compliances are also escalated.
• Liaising with the EDF helpdesk and other members of the wider account to ensure priorities are met.
• Responding appropriately to emergencies or urgent issues as they arise, including the investigation of all incidents arising on site

Qualifications / Experience

• Role in similar position preferred
• Good communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work well without supervision
• Highly motivated
• Clean Driving License
• Excellent client facing skills
• Flexible working (may be occasional need to work outside usual office hours which could include evenings or weekends)

Benefits

• Salary: £35,000
• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Life Assurance
• Flexible Benefits Scheme – including eye care voucher, store discounts for major retailers, salary sacrifice electric car vehicle lease scheme, personal IT equipment loans, impartial financial / savings guidance
• Access to wellbeing programmes
• Employee recognition programmes which reward exceptional achievements
• Employee Referral bonus with generous bonuses for ‘referring a friend’
• The opportunity to use one working day per year volunteering to help the local community
• Employee Assistance Programme - free, confidential 24/7 365 support on all lifestyle matters
• Full induction and training
• Smartphone and Tablet / laptop
• Access to our extensive career portal with career planner tool and online learning

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