Estates Facilities Deputy Manager

On behalf of NHS Blood And Transplant , we are looking for an Estates Facilities Deputy Manager (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract based in Manchester .

As an Estates Facilities Deputy Manager , your main responsibilities will be:

- Coordinate the delivery of Estates & Facilities services across multiple sites, supporting operational efficiency, compliance requirements, and high standards of customer service.
- Liaise with contractors, suppliers, and specialist service providers to ensure maintenance works, facilities services, and smaller project activities are completed safely, on schedule, and within agreed budgets.
- Support the management of health, safety, fire, environmental, and statutory compliance requirements, helping to ensure properties, plant, equipment, and facilities remain compliant with relevant regulations and policies.
- Assist with business continuity, risk management , and emergency response planning, providing operational support and helping maintain resilience across multiple facilities and locations.

Essential:

- Experience coordinating facilities management services including maintenance, cleaning, security, waste management , reception, space management , and contractor activities across one or more sites.
- Knowledge of health, safety, fire, and statutory compliance requirements, with experience supporting risk assessments, permit-to-work systems, inspections, and compliance records.
- Experience managing contractors and service providers, ensuring work is completed safely, to agreed standards, and within required timescales.
- Excellent stakeholder and customer service skills, with the ability to act as a key point of contact for building users, suppliers, contractors, and internal departments.
- Ability to support facilities projects and business continuity activities, including office moves, space planning, building inspections, and coordination of reactive and planned maintenance works.
- Excellent organisational and administrative skills, including scheduling maintenance activities, maintaining records, managing asset information, and producing reports or spreadsheets.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".