Facilities Manager
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Husam Arif
Benefits
Life assurance
Private medical insurance
Additional holiday purchase opportunities
Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%
Enhanced family leave & policies
Share plan schemes
Free health & wellbeing services
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Green car scheme
Facilities Manager
We're looking for a Facilities & Maintenance Manager to join our Velindre Cancer Centre team based in Wales.
Location: Velindre Cancer Centre, Wales
Hours: 40 hours per week
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead the delivery of facilities, maintenance and engineering services within a specialist cancer care environment. As a key member of the site leadership team, you'll be responsible for ensuring the hospital environment remains safe, compliant and fit for purpose for patients, staff and visitors. You'll oversee planned preventative maintenance, reactive repairs, statutory compliance and day-to-day operational delivery across the estate, providing leadership to in-house teams and specialist sub-contractors. This role requires a proactive, organised and collaborative approach, balancing operational service delivery with team leadership, compliance assurance and stakeholder engagement.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Facilities & Maintenance Manager, you'll be working within the site leadership team, supporting them in maintaining a safe, compliant and operational estate. Your day to day will include:
- Leading the delivery of facilities and maintenance services, ensuring the estate remains safe, compliant and operational at all times
- Overseeing planned preventative maintenance, reactive maintenance and lifecycle activity across all systems and infrastructure
- Managing statutory compliance across electrical systems, HVAC, water hygiene, fire safety and building safety, maintaining accurate records and audit documentation
- Leading, motivating and developing your team, including managing performance, training and wellbeing while promoting an inclusive culture
- Coordinating sub-contractors and supply chain partners, monitoring performance, quality and compliance standards
What are we looking for?
This role of Facilities & Maintenance Manager is great for you if:
- You have significant experience in a facilities management, estates management or maintenance management role
- You have demonstrable experience managing maintenance delivery, statutory compliance and sub-contractor performance
- You possess strong technical knowledge of building maintenance, engineering services and estate operations
- You hold IOSH certification or equivalent health and safety qualification with experience carrying out risk assessments
- You have a Full driving licence
Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.
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Location: Cardiff
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Vacancy ID: 12759
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Background check: DBS - Basic
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Closing date: 25 Oct 2026
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Contract type: Permanent
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Working hours: Full Time
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Flexible working: Yes
Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.
