Job Introduction
Regeneration Division is looking for a dynamic individual with a proven track record of driving cultural change and ready to make a difference from day one. The successful candidate will provide operational leadership for the Council’s Facilities Management (FM) function, overseeing the delivery of high‑quality FM services including planned and reactive maintenance, compliance, and minor works, while ensuring our business assets meet all legal and regulatory standards.
As part of this role, the postholder will work closely alongside the Technical Services Manager, Capital Programme Manager, and Marine Assets Manager, collaborating across disciplines to ensure a cohesive, efficient, and forward‑thinking approach to asset and service management. A key responsibility will be leading significant change management activity associated with the insourcing of staff transferring from the current Joint Venture, ensuring a smooth transition, embedding new ways of working, and shaping a positive, unified team culture.
Are you a first‑rate communicator, highly organised, and with a strong track record of delivering key projects? Do you have experience in complex FM delivery and technical briefs, including consultant procurement, contract design and tendering, as well as the operational management of service delivery? If yes, this could be the role for you.
This is a high‑profile position reporting to the Strategic Service Manager for Facilities Management and Capital Projects. It provides a unique opportunity for the incoming postholder to influence and shape how the service meets current and future operational requirements of the Council, while leading a busy, multidisciplinary team of FM professionals and providing expert guidance across the service.
Interviews are to be held on the week commencing 26 January 2026.
If you would like to have an informal discussion with the recruiting manager please call Daniel Stone Facilities Management and Capital Project Head of Service on 01634 332880
In return we offer you:
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Generous local government pension scheme package
- Access to wider training and development qualifications
- Flexible working scheme
- Travel plan discounts
- Car Benefit Scheme from Tusker
- Access to CAREFIRST advice & counselling service
- Employee discount scheme for national and local retailers
- The Government has introduced new ways of supporting parents with childcare costs. Further details are available here: - https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/
We're committed to making Medway carbon neutral by 2050. We have developed an action plan to ensure we play our part in addressing the climate emergency. Our declaration fits into our Council Plan priority of making Medway a place to be proud of. The main outcome being a 'clean and green environment'. All Medway Council staff can access an additional day’s paid leave to undertake a volunteering activity which supports climate change.
Our organisation:
Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula.
Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London.
We provide all local Government services for a quarter of a million people, looking after education, environment, social care, housing, planning, business and much more - everything from frontline services such as rubbish collection and events like the Dickens Festival to work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure services in Medway run smoothly and cost effectively.
Working at Medway Council means that you get to be part of this journey working alongside talented, professional colleagues to drive forward change to transform the lives of our residents and the communities they live in.
Important Information-
Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile
For further information, and for details of the benefits of working for Medway Council, please refer to the Medway information pack available as a download or to view online.
Please be advised that if you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted. All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email.
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We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date.
