Senior FM Hard Services Administrator

Job description

Contract Terms

Starting salary: PO1, (£38,934 – £40,755)
Hours per week: Full-time, 36 per week
Contract type: FTC, 12 Months 
Closing date: 16th February 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

We are seeking a dedicated and responsive individual to join our team as a Senior Administrator within the FM Hard Services team. The successful candidate will play a crucial part in supporting the Operational Hard FM Manager with the day-to-day operations, ensuring that our services meet the highest standards.

Responsibilities will include managing a variety of IT systems and processes to provide essential support, essential for the delivery of key council functions and services. The post holder will coordinate the work within the team to ensure continuous coverage for critical duties, prioritising key areas of work, and provide effective support to our clients.

About the Team

The Hard FM (HFM) service is responsible for the delivery of ‘hard’ facilities management services (e.g. electrical, mechanical, fabric), across the Council’s operational buildings.

HFM is headed up by the Hard FM Operational Manager who manages 18 inhouse personnel; including, 1 Project Manager ,13 engineers (Electricians, Plumbers, multi skilled staff ) and 4 administrators. Responsibilities include:

• Planned maintenance to ensure buildings are legislatively compliant, safe, and fit for purpose
• Undertaking reactive maintenance via requests from the Property Helpdesk system
• Managing a range of accredited maintenance contractors to undertake works as required.

About You

We are seeking an experienced administrator who works well in a fast-paced environment. You must be able to manage their own workload and organise others within the team.

This is a great opportunity to gain local authority experience with a commercial team who manage a diverse building portfolio. Your role will involve working alongside other FM colleagues, such as Corporate Projects, Portfolio Officers and the Compliance Team. Within your team you will work closely with the Operational Hard FM Manager, the engineering staff with a range of skill sets and third-party contractors.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process. If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk.