Job Description

Better places, thriving communities.
Senior Facilities Manager - County Hall
Location: Chelmsford
Employer: Mitie
Contract: Full-time
Join us as Senior Facilities Manager at County Hall - a 41,000 m flagship site and the highest-profile building in the Essex County Council portfolio. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll drive exceptional service delivery, lead a multi-disciplinary team, and ensure the building operates safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards.
The Role
We're looking for a proactive FM leader to oversee all hard and soft services, manage compliance, and build strong relationships with senior stakeholders. You'll coordinate contractors, deliver PPM and reactive works, lead audits, manage budgets, and champion sustainability and continuous improvement across the site.
What You'll Be Doing

• Lead day-to-day FM operations across a large, complex site
• Manage an onsite team (FM, Supervisor, 6 Engineers)
• Oversee PPM, reactive works, soft services, and contractor delivery
• Ensure full Health & Safety and statutory compliance
• Drive service excellence, efficiency, and innovation
• Manage budgets and support refurbishments, moves, and space planning
• Lead audits, risk management, and business continuity
• Support CSR, apprenticeships, and community initiatives

What We're Looking For
Qualifications

• IWFM/CFM or equivalent FM qualification
• Strong technical knowledge (HVAC, electrical, plumbing, BMS, water systems)

Skills and experience

• NEBOSH/IOSH, Asbestos Management, L8 Water Hygiene
• Experience leading multi-discipline FM and engineering teams
• Strong stakeholder and contractor management skills
• Excellent communication, organisation, and problem-solving abilities
• A collaborative, people-focused leader with high standards

#FMH
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we'll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days' holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there's a chance to scoop a top prize of 10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
Since 1987, Mitie's 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK's leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
Join our Mitie Team.
Together our diversity makes us stronger.

Skills Required