Assistant Facilities Manager - Chiswick

At Danone, we value output and personal contribution, enabling ‘Danoners’ to be their most energised, healthy, and productive selves. In this role ou will be joining a small team with a keen focus to provide a great working environment for Danone employees in the Chiswick Park offices. This fast-paced role offers an excellent opportunity to hit the ground running from the get-go and involvement in different facilities projects.

Location: Building 7, Chiswick Business Park, 566 Chiswick High Rd, London

Role Purpose

The Assistant Facilities Manager is responsible for the support of day-to-day delivery of office services, facilities and WISE² responsibilities delivery across the Site. The assistant Facilities manager will also effectively support the Facilities Manager to deliver a reliable, safe, high quality and punctual service.

Role Focus

• To support the facilities manager with the delivery of office service, facilities and environmental targets for the sites including waste management initiatives, energy consumption efficiencies and CSR related projects.
• To maintain amend and where required create SOP’s, and other process related documentation.
• To deliver near miss and incident reporting relating to the site and take a proactive approach to regular safety monitoring and reporting via Enterprise system through to completion
• Attend meetings and support projects alongside the facilities manager.
• Manage and support the reception team across the site ensuring all agreed work tasks are completed.
• Prepare / disable facilities items, locker audits and general house keeping for all new starters & leavers.
• Raise Purchase Orders through One Buy for the office services functions and manage the finance tracking for the office services costs.
• Any other ad hoc administrative duties which may be reasonably expected

About You

As a successful Assistant Facilities Manager, we would love to see you demonstrate -

• Advanced knowledge and experience of Microsoft packages and ability to learn the use other software packages (e.g. Safety Management Software)
• Strong proven experience in an FM or related customer services environment
• Basic knowledge of Facilities Management SLA's / KPI's
• Experience in dealing with suppliers / contractors
• Experience in working with contractors and external service providers, and ensuring that acceptable standards of service are provided at all times
• Capable of operating to tight schedules in a demanding environment
• Coordination, organization and networking capabilities; good level of autonomy
• Responsible for multiple services at site level
• Strong communicator with confident oral and written skills
• Strong customer service ethic and a team player mindset
• Ability to work to pressured deadlines and take on challenges when required
• Excellent communicator at all levels
• High attention to detail

Danone are a world leader across 3 categories: Essential Dairy & Plant Based, Natural Sourced Waters and Specialised Nutrition, many of our consumer brands are household names, ranging from heritage brands like Cow & Gate and Harrogate Waters to international favourites like Actimel, Alpro and evian. In the UK & Ireland and in every market in which we operate, we are committed to delivering health through food and drink to as many people as possible.

We operate at 5 production sites as well as our 3 HUBS in Chiswick, Trowbridge and Dublin - led by our people who power everything we do and are key to our success. We are a team of 2000+ Danoners, part of a 100,000 strong global family.
‘A force for good’, we are the first top 10 branded food and healthcare manufacturer in the UK & Ireland to certify as a B Corp. We are part of a growing global community set up to balance purpose and profit, helping to create a better world while thriving as businesses.

Our mission and values guide how we behave, our flexible ways of working, how we connect with our communities and how we grow & develop our people. We offer a competitive package including a double matched pension, annual bonus, private healthcare, life assurance, flexible benefits and product vouchers.

As a global company, Danone serves a huge array of different communities, with different cultures, local tastes and habits. Our teams need to represent the diversity of these millions of people and we therefore encourage applications from all backgrounds and aim to create a workplace where our Danoners can be their true authentic selves.