Facilities Manager

Req ID: 472759

Location: London

Appointment Basis: Permanent

Apply by: 19/03/2025

Salary: £60,000 - £65,000 DOE plus bonus and excellent benefits

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Alstom is the UK & Ireland’s leading supplier of new trains and train services, and a leading signalling and rail infrastructure provider. Alstom have built, or are building, just under 40% of the UK mainline train fleet; as well as the entire fleets in service with London Underground and Dublin Luas. We provide the widest range of smart solutions in the rail market, from innovative high-speed rolling stock, metros and trams to maintenance, modernisation, infrastructure and signalling.

Your future role

Reporting into the Head of Facilities Management, you’ll work alongside highly motivated professionals within the Alstom Team committed to best in class performance. You will lead our Integrated Facilities Management partner across several sites. You will also need to work closely with both internal and external stakeholders to demonstrate best in class performance for Planned, Reactive and projects in a complex environment.

You will be fully responsible for safety, statutory compliance, critical plant availability and reliability and the associated budgets. You will fully understand and work to current Health & Safety requirements, ensuring the safety of all staff, together with adhering to our environmental standards and polices, and fostering our values of agility, inclusivity and responsibility.

We’ll look to you for:

• Ensuring the sites maintenance activities delivered by our IFM partner (CBRE) are completed on time.
• Reactive tasks are assessed, prioritised are repaired to maintain operational capability.
• Leading stakeholder engagement on all facilities matters, with particular regards to the safety of Alstom staff, Customers and their guests and contractors.
• Form part of the senior management team for each of the sites you will cover, ensuring Alstom safety policies and processes are followed by carrying safety conversations, audits and planned general inspections in relation to lost time accidents.
• Ensure full compliance with statutory compliance and maintain compliance to ISO standards 9001, 14001, 45001
• Ensure records for all plant and equipment are regularly updated by the IFM provider and assessed for accuracy routinely.
• Fully budget for both OPEX and CAPEX expenditure, ensuring capital risk is highlighted within a risk matrix and supporting action plan to support long term strategic planning.
• Develop CDM project scopes for stakeholders, to ensure tenders can be held, were budget and time are fully resourced.

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role: 

• HNC Qualification in Engineering or Building Services or equivalent experience.
• Experience of infrastructure and equipment repair management in the railway industry or similar
• Budget management.
• Supplier management.

Desirable Technical Knowledge / Experience

• A mechanical / electrical background from a production environment would be preferred, although not essential.
• Holding people accountable (both internally and externally)
• Staff management.

Things you’ll enjoy

Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career.

You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension) 

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

What we offer

We offer a highly competitive remuneration package, including a performance related bonus, 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday. Contributed healthcare, life assurance, an excellent company-contributed pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.

Alstom is the leading company in the mobility sector, solving the most interesting challenges for tomorrow’s mobility. That’s why we value inquisitive and innovative people who are passionate about working together to reinvent mobility, making it smarter and more sustainable. Day after day, we are building an agile, inclusive, and responsible culture, where a diverse group of people are offered opportunities to learn, grow and advance in their careers, with options across functions and geographic locations. Are you ready to join a truly international community of great people on a challenging journey with a tangible impact and purpose?

Equal opportunity statement:

Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.  All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law. 

As a 'Disability Confident' employer, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

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