Facilities & Compliance Manager

Facilities & Compliance Manager
Salary: £38,000 – £42,000 per annum
Hours: Full Time – 37 hours per week
Location: Newton Aycliffe – Able to operate from local bases as appropriate

About us

Groundwork aims to be the UK’s leading regeneration charity, working through partnership to create communities in which people are proud to live and work. This programme will deliver Groundwork’s mission of supporting people to improve their prospects and reach their full potential. As an organisation, we are proud of the effective role that our Community Project Managers play in delivering significant social, environmental and health outcomes with communities across the region.

About the role

Are you an experienced Facilities Manager with a background in overseeing workplace health and safety and business compliance?  Groundwork North East & Cumbria is a successful charity working across out local communities to carry out hundreds of diverse community-led projects that change people’s lives now, and also make our communities more resilient for the future.

We have a great opportunity to join our team in a leading role maintaining and developing our portfolio of owned and leased buildings and office facilities located across the North East and Cumbria.  We are looking for a successful Facilities Manager preferably with experience of looking after multiple sites and with up-to-date knowledge of health and safety regulation and good practice. You will be an enthusiastic self-starter, with a can-do attitude, who can juggle and manage a varied workload as well as having excellent, communication, negotiation and relationship management skills.

As part of our wider corporate services teams, you’ll be supporting our successful and passionate operational teams to deliver projects which make a real difference in our local communities.

Closing date: Midnight on Thursday 6th March 2025

Please note, should we receive a high volume of applications, we may look to close the role early, therefore we recommend an early application.

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

Make yourself at home
We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults

This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.

No agencies please.