Millers Vanguard are looking for a highly motivated and experienced facilities manager to manage our small in-house facilities team. They will look to implement process and control spend across our 4 buildings whilst also developing our own FM structure.

You will proactively implement and manage processes and routines alongside taking the lead in reacting swiftly and efficiently to any operational matters that arise.

You will be working closely with the operations manager to ensure that the maintenance function is run smoothly and efficiently, whilst identifying any changes which can be made to improve process. Therefore, you will be responsible for the overall success of the department with full accountability for performance against KPI’s as well as working to agreed budgets.

The candidate will be highly motivated and organised, whilst also being able to work autonomously, striving for the highest standards possible for Millers Vanguard.

Your Role:

• Oversee onsite maintenance, PPM schedules and repairs.
• Management of a team of cleaners and gardeners to ensure meticulous standards of our buildings and gardens
• Oversee refurbishment and improvement works from project initiation to completion
• Liaison with 3rd party contractors from maintenance trades
• Act as key point of contact for all facilities matters
• Control the facilities spend
• Maintain accurate record for all statutory checks (gas, electrical, fire safety etc)

Ideal Candidate

• Experienced Facilities Manger who is capable of managing small team and projects from start to finish.
• Must posses a keen eye for detail and take pride in the appearance of the buildings across our estate.
• A technical understanding of facilities management is required and the candidate must be comfortable liaising with various contractors.

Desirables

• A facilities & maintenance background (building maintenance and electrical background desirable).
• Experience of workflow & shift planning across multiple disciplines (Building, cleaning, electrical).
• A keen eye for detail and organisation.
• The ability to use Microsoft Excel to analyse data.

Company Information

Who are we?
Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows: 

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people
Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments:

• New (2021) Technical response centre
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Career Development
Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Why Join Us

• Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• Incremental holiday allowance (up to 32 days per year)
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families