Facilities Manager – 9 month FTC (maternity cover)
Cambridge /
Operations – Site, Facilities and H&S /
Fixed Term
/ On-site
Frontier is an established, market leading independent developer and publisher of videogames for PC and consoles. We have achieved serial successes across a wide variety of titles including Elite Dangerous, Planet Coaster, Jurassic World Evolution, Planet Zoo and F1 Manager. Founded in 1994, we are based in the world-leading technology cluster and historic city of Cambridge, England. With a growing team of over 800 talented people supporting our existing portfolio and ambitious future roadmap, along with our publishing label Frontier Foundry, we are passionate about creating innovative genre-leading games and authentic worlds for our communities of players.
Purpose of the role
We have an opportunity for an experienced Facilities Manager to join our growing H&S and Facilities Team on a 9 month fixed term contract, starting in April 2023, reporting to the Head of Health and Safety and Facilities. This is a hands-on role, responsible for the co-ordination and delivery of soft facilities management within a busy games studio.
Key Responsibilities
- Provides professional support to the Head of Health and Safety and Facilities
- Management of all soft facilities services within the studio
- Ensuring facilities compliance with environmental, health & safety standards
- Promote high-level of satisfaction among facilities team members and the client users by promptly responding to their service requirements
- Develop a close working relationship with soft FM sub-contractors and ensure they fully understand the client culture and ensure that a high quality service is delivered (security and cleaners)
- Manage and deliver relevant soft FM contract and service agreements and consumables, within budget and to the standard required
- Identifying and managing potential risk and opportunities
- Work closely with the H&S team and report back any Health, Safety & Environment issues that are identified
- Responsible for ensuring that on-site facilities such as breakout and meeting rooms, provide accessible areas to enhance in studio collaboration
- Manage the internal FM helpdesk ensuring that tasks are logged, distributed effectively and are completed in a timely manner
- Work with key stake holders to provide facilities support on internal employee engagement events
- Deliver site reporting requirements, producing accurate and timely reports to the Head of H&S and Facilities
- Lead on Soft FM environmental improvements such as waste management
- Line-management of members of the facilities team.
About You
- Previous Facilities Management experience
- Able to problem solve and forward thinking
- Able to work independently, have a ‘can do’ attitude, work flexibly and be solution and delivery oriented.
- Able to prioritise and organise workload
- Experience managing and supporting team members
- Professional Membership of appropriate institution such as BIFM (desirable but not essential)
What we can offer you
We offer the chance to work with talented and passionate people, developing and publishing sophisticated and enduring games in a creative and collaborative environment. We love what we do, and we work hard to provide outstanding experiences for our player communities. Frontier rewards this passion and determination by sharing in the company’s success and by supporting our teams to keep doing what they love.
Well-being is a big focus at Frontier and we are continually evolving how we can support our staff. We encourage a healthy work/life balance and host a range of well-being activities, initiatives and sessions to support both mental and physical health.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes a success-based annual bonus, share option schemes, pension, life assurance, private family healthcare, flexitime working hours, enhanced maternity/paternity package, in-house subsidised catering, support with relocation, a Cycle to Work scheme and free bike servicing, and social events.
We welcome and encourage applications from qualified candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.
