Senior Facilities Manager
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Working for Sheffield City Council
As one of the largest employers in Sheffield, with over 7,000 employees, we aim to recruit and develop people who share our passion for Sheffield. If you work for us, you will be part of a team, which provides a huge range of services to our 574,000 residents, businesses large and small, as well as to our many visitors to the city.
The Senior Facilities Manager is an exciting opportunity for you to be part of implementing a new approach to managing our street scene across the city. Our vision is to ensure we join up all Streetscene services for the benefit of our customers.
In Sheffield we want everyone to have a great neighbourhood that people are happy to call home. We deliver high quality neighbourhoods which are clean, green, resilient and safe, and where people can live healthy lives. In order to achieve this, we work as one team for Sheffield to meet challenges head on and involve local people to improve our services and quality of life in our city.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced professional with a background in Street Scene management, with excellent resource management skills and the ability to lead a multi-skilled team of maintenance and horticultural supervisors and operatives to deliver joined up services focussed on the needs of our local communities.
We're looking for someone who can demonstrate versatility and focus on innovation to improve our street scene, someone who can work with our communities to make the most of local strengths to deliver sustainable outcomes and improvements.
You will directly manage a team already delivering place management in the city centre, and your teams will lead the council's approach to solve street scene issues by working with teams not directly under your management and improving the skills and resilience in your own team. You will manage your service using a 'Team around the Place' approach through embedding a culture of excellence and versatility in your teams, working with services such as Highways, Waste, Parks, Housing, South Yorkshire Police and volunteering groups.
So, if you are a people manager who can work with partners and stakeholders to deliver new ways of working to get the best for our communities, then we look to receiving your application.
Additional information is included to enable you to be aware of the scale of our ambition and the strategic ambitions you will help us realise
- Shefield's City Goals Sheffield City Goals
- the Council Plan Sheffield City Council Plan 2024-28 | Council Plan
We're ambitious
Our Council vision is for Sheffield to flourish as a modern city that is socially and environmentally just, with great opportunities and wellbeing for everyone.
Our priorities are to empower people and businesses to thrive, build sustainability into all areas of life and keeping Sheffield's diverse communities at the heart of all our plans.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy sets out our equality commitments to the people of Sheffield and our staff and how we will meet them.
We are a City Council, where we are investing for the future. This includes investment in the skills and capabilities of our workforce and attracting new talent to deliver for Sheffield and ensure our people reflect the city we serve.
We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.
It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.
Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.
Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.
If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.