FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE MANAGER - £39,500 PER ANNUM

ExCeL London, the home of world leading events is enjoying a period of significant growth and is set to become Europe’s largest connected convention centre with the opening of a new extension in Spring 2025, increasing capacity by 25%. To support this exciting expansion, we’re growing our world class hospitality team that will help to deliver over 400 leading industry events every year. ExCeL London Hospitality caters for the biggest, most influential events in the UK, from executive meetings to large scale conferences and exhibitions. We boast a highly trained team of managers, chefs and waiting staff, who ensure our customers receive the best possible service.

WHO WE ARE:

Levy UK + Ireland is the vibrant and exciting sector of Compass Group, the world’s largest catering company. We work at some of the greatest venues in the world, delivering legendary experiences in food, drink, and hospitality.
In the UK, we are proud to have a wealth of long-standing partnerships with venues across sports, entertainment, and events. Our partnerships include venues such as Wimbledon, Twickenham, Edgbaston, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, Principality Stadium, Scottish Event Campus (SEC) and ExCel London.
We are culinary champions – it’s what we do and it’s what we are passionate about. At the core of our work is the belief that sustainably sourced great food and drink, coupled with exceptional service is key to creating legendary experiences.
Focussed on ‘doing the right thing’ for our people and the planet, sustainability, wellbeing, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of what we do.
We have a commitment to being Net Zero by 2027, are official partners of the British Paralympic Association, and are proud to pay all our team members at least the Real Living Wage or London Living Wage.

OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

The Facilities and Maintenance Manager will be in charge of any aspects of the company maintenance procedure. They will own the company asset lists, manage and action the full repairs process.
Alongside the Head of Logistics leading the implementation of change programmes to deliver operational benefits, you will bring up and drive new procedures across the company.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Delivery of consistent and exceptional service standards to achieve and ideally exceed agreed unit targets and grow our reputation for legendary customer service.
• Responsible for the company assets maintenance as well as managing and keeping up to date the assets list spreadsheet.
• Responsible for the entire company areas maintenance as well as managing and keeping up to date the areas maintenance logs.
• Responsible to offer guidance and solutions over minor repairs which can be sorted internally.
• Book call outs and repair visits in accordance with level of business across the areas the maintenance must take place.
• Responsible to report back to the venue any maintenance issues falling into the “host responsibilities category”.
• Working alongside the Health and Safety Manager to release hot work permits and obtained risk assessment methods.
• Liaise with 3rd party supplier, contractors, and engineers to facilitate the communication.
• Attending company and business meetings once requested.