Area Facilities Officer

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Are you ready to be the driving force behind spaces that inspire, support and empower? Join Southwark Council as an Area Facilities Officer and play a key role in shaping modern, sustainable workplaces across our borough. You won’t just be maintaining buildings – you’ll be enhancing environments where our people and communities thrive.

What makes this role stand out?

• Real Impact: You’ll directly influence how our staff and residents experience council spaces, ensuring they are safe, efficient, and inspiring places to work and visit.
• Collaborative Spirit: You’ll work with a wide range of stakeholders, from technical teams to contractors to building users, building trusted relationships that keep everything running smoothly.
• Growth & Responsibility: With the authority to monitor performance, manage contracts, and commit expenditure, you’ll have the scope to make a real difference while developing your career in facilities management.

About Southwark Council

Southwark Council is the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues such as The Shard, The Tate Modern and Borough Market along with many social enterprises and we have a young, diverse, and growing population.

At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities.

Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality), underpins all that we do.

Benefits and more information:

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Salary Range: £35,373 - £41,637

The role

What you’ll be doing:

• Visiting and inspecting buildings across the borough to ensure facilities are safe, compliant, and supportive of modern ways of working.
• Building strong partnerships with contractors, colleagues, and building users to deliver excellent facilities services.
• Monitoring and managing contractor performance, covering statutory, planned, and reactive maintenance.
• Overseeing delivery of hard and soft services to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Providing professional advice and reporting to ensure operational programmes are cost-effective, sustainable, and compliant.
• Committing and authorising expenditure within agreed limits.

How you’ll add impact:

Our team provides first-class Corporate Facilities support across multiple sites and depots. We need a dynamic and experienced Area Facilities Officer who will bring a blend of the following:

• A confident and articulate professional with strong influencing and relationship-building skills.
• Experience working in facilities management, with knowledge of both hard and soft services.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team and with external partners to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Strong customer focus with a passion for creating positive building user experiences.
• A proactive, solutions-driven mindset with an eye for detail and service improvement.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, meeting deadlines under pressure.
• Enjoy a balanced approach with flexible home working.

Recruitment timetable

Application Closing Date: 11:59pm on 31st of October 2025

Interview Date: 19th of November 2025

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities.

This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative.

We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian, and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care.
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, in which case we will move the key dates for the process. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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