Senior Facilities Manager
Bury Council
Bury
Flexible
£50,269 - £51,356
Permanent
Expires 31/10/2025
About the Role
Post Title: Senior Facilities Manager (buildings)
Team: Facilities Management
Salary - £50,269 £51,356
Are you ready to lead the future of Facilities Management across a diverse and dynamic estate?
Bury Council is seeking a motivated and skilled professional to take charge of Facilities Management across its corporate estate. In this pivotal role, you’ll bring significant expertise, strong leadership, and a proactive mindset to develop and implement strategies that meet the evolving needs of our buildings and services.
You’ll oversee budgets, drive strategic planning, and champion health and safety initiatives making a real impact on how our estate operates.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee FM operations across Bury Council’s corporate estate
- Ensure statutory compliance through testing and certification
- Manage digital FM platforms and smart building technologies
- Control revenue and capital budgets for operational sites
- Support and deliver health and safety strategy across the FM service
If you’re a strategic thinker with a passion for service improvement and a track record in compliance and leadership, we’d love to hear from you.
The Key responsibilities for the role are outlined in the attached Job Specification alongside the key requirements criteria.
Normal hours of work are 37 hours per week based around the usual business working week. Dependent on service requirements, you may be required to work on a rota basis.
Flexi scheme is in operation, working hours are 37 per week based in Bury Town Hall.
Employee Benefits include:
- Local Government Pension Scheme.
- A range of attractive work/life balance policies in place together with a number of employee benefit and health and wellbeing offers including employee assistance programmes.
- 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years
- Fantastic training and development opportunities
- Employee discount scheme which provides discounts with local business within the borough as well as a cycle to work scheme and car lease scheme
We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.
We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities, and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore, we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.
For further information please see:
- Job description and person specification
- Work demands form (JA1)
- Privacy notice
About Bury
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.
Please note we are unable to support with sponsorship at this time.
As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way
Benefits of working for Bury Council
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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.
We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.
If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.
Next steps
For an informal chat regarding the role please contact Jason Kelly at j.kelly@bury.gov.uk
Interviews will be held week commencing 17th November.
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