Job Description

About the role
Our client owns and manages a collection of high-end, boutique hotels in the UK and internationally. Many of the London properties are housed in listed buildings, full of character, with a unique style and creative charm woven throughout each location, expressed through the decor, rooms, and menus. This role will initially focus on the UK properties, with clear potential to expand internationally across the wider portfolio. The position requires careful planning, technical expertise, and hands-on management, with a strong focus on delivering excellence in hard services across the estate.
About you
We're looking for an experienced Facilities Manager with an engineering, trades, or degree background. You'll have the knowledge and confidence to work alongside contractors on a technical level, ensuring proposals are fully understood and best practice is followed. You'll be comfortable managing reactive issues, planning and delivering cyclical maintenance, and overseeing multiple properties and their technical systems. Familiarity with BMS systems, energy efficiency measures, and sustainability initiatives is important.
Previous experience in hotels is essential. What matters most is your ability to take ownership of the facilities function, manage responsibilities across multiple sites, and ensure all technical and compliance requirements are met to a high standard.
Key Responsibilities:

• Contract reviews and negotiations for suppliers and services
• Deliver an annual maintenance schedule across the estate, cyclical and planned
• Preparing annual CAPEX budgets
• Manage all health & safety, risk registers, CDM, compliance and operational plans
• Management of a small team at each location and external contractors, driving value and best practices
• Work closely and support the general managers of each hotel
• Manage utilities providers and ensure all testing and certification is carried out across the estate
• Roll out of BMS installation programme
• Attend and contribute to team and executive meetings
• Respond to critical situations as needed

We're looking for someone responsible, dependable, and confident, able to take charge, manage competing priorities, and deliver results across a technically complex portfolio of properties.
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For more information please contact Hugo Oliver 02038 174000/ 07947 648308 or email Holiver@carriera.co.uk
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