# Facilities Manager

**Company**: ABM UK
**Location**: Belfast, Northern Ireland
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Facilities & Maintenance

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## Description

We are seeking a Facilities Manager to lead the safe, compliant, and cost-effective delivery of hard FM and utilities services across assigned Belfast sites.

As a Facilities Manager at ABM UK, you will be responsible for:

- Leading reliable hard FM and utilities delivery, covering PPM, reactive response, statutory maintenance, critical assets, and safe plant operation across assigned sites

- Directing engineering teams and contractors, coordinating shutdowns and remedials, and improving asset reliability, CAFM accuracy, and service performance without disrupting production

- Maintaining effective safety and compliance controls covering PTW, RAMS, isolations, competent appointments, audits, risk registers, and corrective actions

- Leading site incident response and escalation, supporting business continuity, and ensuring specialist advice and authorisations are used when required

- Developing and managing site employees, setting clear standards for performance, conduct, attendance, competence, and quality

- Managing staffing, training, and cover; agreeing grounds-work priorities with Soft Services Managers

- Acting as the principal ABM operational contact for assigned sites, leading reviews, and providing concise reports on performance, risks, and priorities

- Resolving client concerns, supporting contract-wide governance, and providing delegated management cover within agreed authority and escalation limits

- Managing delegated budgets, forecasts, purchasing, and financial controls; providing accurate cost, risk, and performance information

- Challenging supplier performance, quotations, and variations, identifying value-for-money opportunities, and supporting formal change control

- Maintaining the visual appearance and presentation of assigned sites through regular site audits; recording issues, assigning hard-services defects, and referring soft-services concerns to the relevant Soft Services Manager for action

The ideal candidate will have:

- HNC/HND, degree or equivalent in engineering, building services, or FM; alternatively a recognised trade qualification with substantial senior FM leadership experience

- At least five years in technical FM, engineering, or utilities operations, with demonstrable people leadership in an industrial, critical, or regulated environment

- Sound understanding of PPM, reactive maintenance, statutory compliance, PTW, safe systems of work, and CAFM

- Proven ability to manage site teams, subcontractors, client relationships, and operational reporting

- Experience in budgets, purchasing, quotation review, financial control, and use of Microsoft 365 applications

- Strong communication and decision-making skills; full driving licence and ability to work across sites and support out-of-hours escalation as required

## Skills

### Required
- engineering
- building services
- FM
- PPM
- reactive maintenance
- statutory compliance
- PTW
- safe systems of work
- CAFM
- Microsoft 365

### Nice to have
- NEBOSH
- IOSH
- IWFM
- IET
- CMI

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