Job Description

Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to contribute to the successful delivery of the Services within Facilities Management (FM).

Hours: 37 supporting 7am - 7pm service

Worksite: Manor Lane, but can work across whole of Sheffield

The FM Service Delivery Team - what we do?

Acts as building owner for the delivery of Facility Management activities to ensure that sites are Clean, Safe, Warm and Fit for Purpose, through our internal teams and contract partners, for staff and service users throughout Sheffield. Its supports operations across the corporate estate with 400 sites with approximately 800 assets to manage ranging from vacant space/buildings, depots, office buildings to large heritage sites such as the Town hall. Deliver services from performance auditing, statutory compliance monitoring, cleaning, security, catering, mail, vacant property management, meeting support, reception functions, site opening and closing and coordination. Has approximately 120 staff delivering services in the team Has a budget of around 10 million annually

The role we want you to undertake

The role will require the successful candidate to be responsible for


An assigned region of Sheffield and the operation and performance of the sites within it, The performance, operation and development of a regional team of Facility Managers and staff delivering service to these sites. The performance of contract partners supporting operations Ensuring effective liaison with the users so they can fulfil their function delivering services to the people of Sheffield.

The person we want to join us

The successful candidate will be a person


You will need manage to deliver against Shefield values People are at the heart of what we do Openness and honesty are important to us Together we get things done With the extensive experience of and proven track record in successfully managing a team and delivering premises related or service delivery functions. That will be key in ensuring effective delivery and improvement in their region and the service. They will need to be successful in managing a large team and building service delivery to ensure the key building blocks of Facility Management. That will need to ability to manage and support staff, raise standards, undertake effective communication, monitor partner providers' activity, in each of your assigned buildings with effectively reporting against your objectives. You will need to have excellent management and in-depth financial skills, along with effective problem-solving attributes. You will need to be enthusiastic, confident and well organised. Ideally, you will have a formal qualification in Facilities Management or a related activity. You will also need extensive knowledge and/or formal qualification/experience of Facility related Health and Safety, compliance activities and can effectively monitor a large in-house staff team along with ensuring effective contractor performance to ensure our success. The Service makes extensive use of operational IT systems to support, manage, monitor service delivery and establish data to decide current and future resource allocation. Ideally, you will need experience in implementing and developing this type of activity. You will need to demonstrate excellent customer liaison skills to ensure you to deliver on the wide-ranging objectives required by the post.

The benefits

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year with opportunity to discuss a wide range of flexible working opportunities, which benefit you and the Council. We offer a generous holiday entitlement. Electric car benefit scheme Cycle benefit scheme Public transport discounts




If you would like to find out more details of the post, please contact Chris Noble on 07816096922



We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.



It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.





Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.



Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.



If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.



Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

Job details

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Job reference
REQ003248
Date posted
28/04/2025
Application closing date
28/05/2025
Location
Sheffield
Salary
Grade 09, 45,718 to 49,237
Package
Permanent
Contractual hours
37
Job category/type
Management