Facilities Manager

CliniMed Ltd; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare solutions provider in High Wycombe is seeking a Facilities Manager to oversee operations across multiple buildings. This critical role includes managing services, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, and leading a team. The successful candidate will have strong leadership and project management skills, experience managing budgets, and excellent communication abilities. Responsibilities include coordinating maintenance, managing contractors, and driving operational excellence. This is a 12-month fixed term contract requiring flexible working hours.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and project management experience.
• Proven ability to manage multiple buildings effectively.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Responsibilities

• Manage all hard and soft services across multiple locations.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards.
• Oversee planned preventative maintenance programs.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Compliance requirements

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Job description

12-month Fixed Term Contract. This role requires flexibility in working hours, including occasional early starts,eveningsand weekends.

Estimated Start Date: March 2026

Job Summary

Reporting to the Head of Transport and Logistics, the Facilities Manager willbe responsible for managing all hard and soft services across 5 buildings on the Knaves Beech Industrial Estate. This role is critical in supporting the core functions of the business while providing effective line management for a team of5staff members. Working closely with the Facilities Coordinator and Facilities Operative, the successful candidate will drive strategies that deliver operational excellence and ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards. Key responsibilities include overseeing planned preventative maintenance programs, managing the on-site fleet and pool vehicles, and leading infrastructure improvement projects from conception to completion. The Facilities Manager will also be accountable for budget control, ensuring cost efficiency without compromising service quality, and will act as the primary point of contact for internal stakeholders and external contractors. Strong leadership, project management experience, and a proven ability to manage multiplebuildingsare essential, along with excellent communication skills and a thorough understanding of compliance requirements.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Managing and planning essential central services such as reception,postroom/mail, security/access control, maintenance, cleaning, archiving, catering, meeting rooms, wastedisposaland recycling;
• ensuring the buildings meet health and safety requirements and that facilitiescomply withlegislation;
• Responsible for the coordination/management of building maintenance as required;
• Responsible for the project management and supervising/coordinating the work of contractors;
• Co-ordination/management of any refurbishments, renovations or office moves
• Responsible for meeting room facilities in conjunction with IT
• Management of all direct reports including, but not limited to, staff planning, recruitment, performancemanagementand reviews.
• Activities will include:
• Preparing documents to put out tenders for contractors;
• Calculating and comparing costs for required goods or services to achieve maximum value for money;
• Planning for future development in line with strategic businessobjectives;
• Managing and leading change to ensure minimum disruption to core activities;

Project/Initiative Management

• Elicit business requirements using a variety of approaches. For example, interviews, requirements workshops, surveys, business processtaskand workflow analysis
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders to analyse needs and requirements
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Drive and challenge functions on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans and processes
• Strong analytical, project and people management skillsrequired, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret stakeholder business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts
• To use project management skills to ensuregood progressagainst key milestones and to mitigate risks, taking personal responsibility for successfully managing projects to completion

General

• Responsible for monitoring and reporting on the key performance indicators for Facilities.
• Support the Head of Transport & Logistics/Finance Directorin matters of departmental strategic planning asdeterminedfrom time to time.
• To implement the Company’s Quality & Environmental Policy as documented in the Quality and Environmental Manual.
• Implementation of companies Health and Safety policies and procedures.
• Involvement with ad hoc projects as required by theHead of Transport & Logistics,FinanceDirectorand the business.
• Perform any other taskreasonably requestedby theHead of Transport &