Head of Facilities Management

Job Title:                  Head of Facilities Management
Location:                  Kyle of Lochalsh OR Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK 
Package:                  Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type:                Full-time / Permanent
Role ID:                    SF17390

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as the Head of Facilities Management at our sites in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, at Kyle of Lochalsh (BUTEC) or Benbecula, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

This lead role will give you the opportunity to learn new skills and develop into and array of different areas across QinetiQ and support our businesses in across the UK.
 
The Role
As the Head of Facilities Management, reporting to the Head of Estates Delivery for UK Operations, you'll have a role out of the ordinary. You will oversee both hard and soft service maintenance operations as well as manage their responsibilities across budget, employee engagement, change management, external stakeholders and continuous & future projects; under the LTPA contract.

Day-to-day, you will continuously find ways to improve the facilities at Kyle of Lochalsh/Benbecula in addition to the infrastructure; which will ensure site operations can continue efficiently and to a high standard. You’ll define the strategy on all aspects of property service delivery and ensuring compliance is maintained accurately and aligned to the contractual documentation.

You will also:

• Oversee both hard and soft service maintenance operations, including budgeting, scheduling and planning the tasks and also arranging and coordinating with the people who carry out those tasks. Define the site strategy for the delivery of all aspects and ensure compliance is maintained
• Provide appropriate input and advice to IDT’s, project and trial test readiness reviews, inspections and services for upgrading
• Management of budgets and other financial aspects including the effective management of cost centre budgets and demand plans, providing accurate forecasting and reporting, collaborating across the business as required, reconciling conflicting demands, reviewing and revising timing of work to agreed deadlines
• Analyse and aim to discover where there is an opportunity for continuous improvement on site and will be looking to answer questions such as; where can we look to put processes in place to improve? Can we change equipment, process, tasks, planning or employee placement and gain the same results?
• Foreseeing and planning to avoid potential impact that the property ops activities and may have on the delivery of capability or the sites tenants
• Dealing with outsourced contracts and contractors – Covering logistical, financial and regulatory aspects whilst building customer satisfaction through effectively sized and empowered operations teams – employee satisfaction elements

Look to work toward goals such as:

• Supporting QinetiQ’s NetZero target – identifying NetZero opportunities at the sites in Kyle of Lochalsh/Benbecula – are we compliant with statutory and mandatory requirements? How can we control sustainability?
• Defining strategy on all aspects of property services delivery and ensure compliance is maintained accurately and aligned to the contractual documentation

This role is full time. The standard working hours are Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 16:30. Flexible mobility around UK required; there is a requirement and expectation of onsite presence and nights away from home notwithstanding the hybrid model.

Essential experience of the Head of Facilities Management:

• Experience in scheduling, planning and overseeing routine maintenance, hard and soft including lifting and shifting, cleaning and grounds maintenance operations
• Managing key management figures as well as engineers, operatives and external stakeholders
• Budgeting and financial management experience
• Organising, manage and monitor resources, risks and issues as well as conflict management
• Compliance to regulations experience
• A change management champion, resilient

Qualifications of the Head of Facilities Management:

• Health & Safety qualification (IOSH or NEBOSH General Certificate)

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance as a minimum.
UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Our Benefits:

• Adaptive and flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
  Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant.

Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community. 
 

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

About QinetiQ

As a company of thousands of dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Security

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information, which mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Application Guidance
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please contact your regional recruiting team in strictest confidence. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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