Job Description
Job Description
Facilities Manager & Health & Safety Officer
Gatehouse Bank plc
London – Onsite
Role purpose
To be responsible for all premises and facilities related matters for all bank offices and all aspects of Health and Safety.
Key responsibilities
- Act as the primary contact with the relevant landlord(s) and manage any issues concerning the offices. and their upkeep.
- Manage the processes and tasks around the relevant service providers to ensure smooth running of the facilities and offices.
- Manage the process for any new office relocation activity including moving, fit out and ultimately dilapidations together with internal moves.
- To act as Health & Safety Officer for the Bank and manage all associated responsibilities to ensure all aspects of Health and Safety are maintained, recorded and up to date.
- To report Health & Safety updates to EXCO on a monthly basis.
- Attend, as a member and present regular updates at the Operations committee.
- To provide Health & Safety support to all staff both when home and office working.
- To manage the monitoring of the quality and standard of service provided by service providers with regular reviews and addressing issues promptly. Where necessary, identify new service providers, obtain competitive quotes, and manage the new supplier process to set up contracts.
- To manage office expenditure - recordkeeping, invoice tracking and facilities budget.
- To have line management responsibility of the Office Assistant.
- To oversee regularly reviewing and updating relevant Office Management processes and procedures and ensure implementation.
Skills required
- Experience of Office and Facilities Management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience of working with data from multiple sources.
- Knowledge of Microsoft packages such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Excellent organisational, time management and administrative skills.
- Proactive approach and ability to use initiative.
- Ability to work independently and autonomously.
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines.
- Able to work with discrete information and an understanding of confidentiality issues.
- Beneficial skills, knowledge, and experience:
- Experience of managing a team.
- Knowledge of equality and diversity legislation.
About us
Founded in 2007, we are a challenger bank that operates in accordance with Shariah principles, with offices in London, Milton Keynes and Wilmslow. We’re one of the fastest growing banks of our kind in the UK and are a subsidiary of Gatehouse Financial Group Limited.
We offer personal and corporate savings products and finance for UK residential and commercial property, in addition to sourcing and advising on UK real estate investments.
Our way of operating is stable, transparent, and shares risk and reward in an equitable way. That’s why we talk about balanced banking.
Additional details
We offer a highly attractive reward package; the typical benefits include:
25 days holiday entitlement increasing with service
Pension Plan
Private Medical Insurance
Dental Cover
Income Protection
Life Assurance
Employee Referral Bonus
Gatehouse Bank is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
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