Facilities Supervisor

Rutland County Council Property Services department are looking to recruit a Facilities Supervisor to work with our dedicated team of staff providing help and assistance to those accessing and using our buildings.  Are you someone who takes pleasure in making sure things run efficiently? Can you motivate and lead a team to ensure the highest service standards are reached? This vacancy has arisen due to a staff member retiring after years of dedicated and loyal service.  This is an exciting opportunity for the right person, this could be the role you have been looking for……

 About you……

• Good communicator who is patient and diplomatic
• Flexible in your approach to work and able to pick up new challenges each day
• Able to prioritise tasks
• Able to motivate, lead and support a team 

About the role…
We provide facilities support to a diverse portfolio of property that includes commercial business parks, corporate offices through to historic public access buildings that are occupied by colleagues, visitor, services users, Council Members and a broad range of commercial tenants.

You will lead a small team of premises staff to ensure our buildings are efficiently maintained, operational and secure in accordance with business needs whilst assisting occupiers with essential soft facilities support to achieve their service targets

Although some of our property assets operate extended hours, the facilities team routinely work a two-shift pattern of earlies and lates, 5 days a week to ensure flexibility of access and support to our occupiers.  The Facilities Supervisor will periodically be required to participate in this shift pattern to assist with absence cover or supervision arrangements in addition to providing out-of-hours’ duty support as required.

Please note, you will require a full driving licence to be able to travel to all our sites in Rutland.

The Facilities Supervisor Interviews will be held on 20 & 21 February 2025.  Please be advised this could be subject to change, in which case we will give appropriate notice.

We will be reviewing applications on a regular basis and inviting those who meet our essential person specification criteria to interview. If you’re interested in this role, we strongly encourage you to apply without delay.

To be successful in this role, you may have experience working in roles that have required customer facing support, property related environments such as caretaking, property maintenance or commercial soft services or hotel support provision, supervision of 3^rd parties such as contractors or staff.

Our offer to you:

Rutland Council is committed to Flexible Working and understands the benefits of supporting employees to manage their work and life balance, whilst meeting the needs of the service.

We are committed to supporting and empowering our staff to be the best workers that they can be, and Rutland Council is the place you want to be.    Our benefits go beyond the salary – being part of a great team, excellent Local Government Pension, generous annual leave, opportunities to learn and develop your career, and a demonstrable commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our staff.

Due to the nature of the role, it will be necessary for the successful candidate to be based primarily in Oakham, although occasional travel to other sites within Rutland will also be necessary to deliver our service.

Find out more:

To learn more about working with us visit https://jobs.rutland.gov.uk or if you have any queries about this role please contact Diane Grattage on Tel: 07748 886252 or at Dgrattage@rutland.gov.uk.

If you are experiencing problems or have any queries about the application process, please call us on 01572 758291 or email us at recruitment@rutland.gov.uk