Premises Manager

Skanska, one of the world’s largest development and construction companies, dates back 135 years and had a 2021 revenue of around £12.5 billion. We have 3,300 experts in the UK alone, could joining us be your next career move?   

Our Building Services division provides complete Facilities Management of properties throughout the UK, providing mechanical and electrical engineering support, cleaning, catering and grounds maintenance on a planned and reactive basis, using technological solutions to manage our teams in the most efficient ways.   

We are looking for a Premises Manager to join the Commercial Property Maintenance team on one of our projects in Bristol.  

The purpose of the role to ensure that Building Services operational delivery performance is in line with contract obligations and Skanska business processes. Services to be delivered with high levels of customer satisfaction and ensuring that all sites remain compliant.

Must have a ‘Can do’ attitude and ability to work under own initiative vital to this role along with a desire to deliver first class engineering and client satisfaction. 

What you’ll do:

•   To Manage the Premises Assistance in the provision of all related services within the school location.
• To work in conjunction with Lead engineers to ensure both reactive and PPM works are
• To comply with all statutory and regulatory requirements, including Health and Safety legislation and safe systems of work.
• To ensure all planned and reactive maintenance is carried out as determined by the contract PPM plan, SLA’s, KPI’s and line manager.
• To be included on and as part of the on-call rota and to cover any absences.
• Monitoring the output of each site premises team member, to ensure the cleanliness of the school premises and furnishings is maintained and the reporting of any deficiencies or authority damage is effective.
• Manage and oversee the delivery and control of materials and stock to ensure budgets are maintained whilst having a sufficient stock of parts and materials in order minimise potential for unavailability or service performance deductions.
• Ensure effective and timely reporting of management, health, safety, welfare, environmental, labour, utilities and personnel information and data to contract office and or representatives as required.
• Seasonal weather monitoring and management in conjunction with Senior Premises Manager, to ensure sufficient access to each premises and classroom in the event of snow or minor flooding or similar emergency situations.
• To facilitate and oversee the day-to-day management of contractor activity on site in conjunction with respective Premises Assistants.
• To undertake any other reasonable tasks and duties relevant to the post and grade as may be determined by Line Manager

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Experience of FM service delivery
• Sound knowledge of H&S Legislation and COSHH
• ISOH Managing Safely
• Experience of building maintenance systems
• Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing with all levels of employee, customer and client
• Ability to manage and prioritise a demanding and varying workload
• Ability to manage and deliver works on time and on budget
• Knowledge of Concept CAFM systems preferred.

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska. 

Flexible working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role. 

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [email protected] or call 0330 105 2000 – Option 5 & 1, if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application. 

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [email protected] 

Closing date

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.