Job Description

VINCI Facilities
Facilities Manager
Sub Division: Facilities Management
Location: Watford
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time - 40 hours - Monday to Friday
Creating and maintaining great places to live and work delivered by excellent people who care...
Purpose of Role
VINCI Facilities has been awarded a prestigious contract by the Department for Education (DfE), delivering Total Facilities Management across a new portfolio of schools. This includes pre-opening services to support school readiness, mobilisation, and full operational FM post-opening.

We're now recruiting a Facilities Manager to oversee multiple education sites across London and the South East. This is a key role ensuring safe, compliant, and high-performing environments for students and staff, while leading service delivery in line with contract KPIs.
Responsibilities

• Day-to-day management of hard and soft FM services across a cluster of school sites
• Line management of on-site teams and supervision of subcontractors
• Ensure health & safety, statutory compliance, and quality assurance are met or exceeded
• Build trusted relationships with school leadership teams and the DfE
• Lead site audits, lifecycle planning, and reporting using CAFM systems
• Drive service excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement across your portfolio

Essential Qualifications/Skills

• Experience in facilities management across multi-site environments - ideally within education, PFI, or public sector
• Strong knowledge of H&S legislation, statutory compliance, and building services
• A confident leader, with strong communication and client-facing skills
• NEBOSH/IOSH and FM-related qualifications are highly desirable
• A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel between sites

In return for your hard work we offer additional training and development, 26 days holiday (+ bank holidays), generous pension contribution, life assurance and much more.
We are VINCI Facilities - experts in the built environment. VINCI Facilities is a Facilities Management and Building Solutions provider, delivering cost-effective and sustainable bespoke solutions to customers in the public and private sectors. We are committed to working towards a lower carbon society, focusing on sustainable and innovative methods to exceed our partners' goals and add value for all stakeholders - and we were named the top-ranked FM service provider in the Sustainable FM Index for 2020. We put our people first. Always working as a team and collaborating from start to finish. We are the trusted expert in the built environment because we listen to our team and create a workplace that maximises their potential.
Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Facilities is about recognising and celebrating each other's differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.
VINCI recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.

Skills Required