Facilities and Security Manager

Role Responsibility

Do you want to lead Facilities Management for KCC?

Kent County Council have an exciting opportunity for a senior management role leading the Facilities Management team which is part of Property Strategy and Commissioning based in Maidstone with responsibility for in excess of 600 buildings within Kent.

KCC is one of the largest counties in the country with a diverse property portfolio, it adopted a TFM model in 2015 and is now at the start of a procurement exercise to replace these contracts with one hard services contract across the whole county along with a number of soft services contracts.

The job holder will manage a budget of circa £16 million per annum for the corporate estates with a wide portfolio of buildings.  Further information giving an indication of the services that the job holder will manage are set out in the background document.

Reporting to the Head of Property Operations, the role holder will lead the delivery of Facilities Management services across all of KCCs buildings. The job holder will be responsible for compliance, hard and soft services, security, procurement of FM contracts and ensuring that the Councils buildings are maintained and available to enable the council to deliver its services.

In addition, the post-holder will ensure close working relationships are maintained with other groups within the Infrastructure Division and the wider council to deal with strategic, day to day and emergency matters.

Please note shortlisted candidates will be invited to complete a psychometric assessment as part of the recruitment process

Please contact Sam King at Samantha.King2@kent.gov.uk or 03000419767 for additional KCC’s Property portfolio.

Contact Details

James Sanderson - 03000 417606 or James.Sanderson2@kent.gov.uk