End Date: Monday 20 January 2025
Salary Range: £38,295 - £42,550
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Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
Do you want to be part of a team that is responsible for transforming our workplaces through the delivery of workplace experience and Facilities Management?
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Works Authorisation Manager
SALARY: £38,295 - £42,550
LOCATION(S): Leeds
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
We have a great opportunity for a Works Authorisation Manager. Your role will be reviewing, challenging, and quality checking the estimates we receive from Mitie, our third-party supplier, above £1,000 before approving the works to be scheduled for completion.
Your responsibilities will include:
1. Reviewing work requests from our third-party supplier, validating work estimates/standard of completed works, and ensuring compliance with regulations and contract agreements.
2. Assuring commercial value of all works against standards and assisting the commercial team with billing queries/issues.
3. Managing backlogs through reporting, escalating business-critical issues, and recommending mitigating actions.
4. Producing regular and ad-hoc reporting including costs, budget spend, project progress, and performance.
5. Collaborating with various stakeholders to support training and projects.
Why Lloyds Banking Group?
We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone, including you.
What you’ll need:
1. Experience working in a facilities management role and dealing with work requests.
2. Experience of cost assurance to ensure you are optimizing expenditure and spending in the right way.
3. Experience of maintaining and monitoring project actions to completion.
4. Great attention to detail, and ability to juggle work, as you’ll be supporting various works requests, contracts, projects, budgets, and costs.
5. Must have good experience within the buildings industry with knowledge of both Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) and Fabric trades.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organization that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.
We were one of the first major organizations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.
As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.
We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition, or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process, just let us know.
Benefits
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
* An annual performance-related bonus.
* Share schemes including free shares.
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
* 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses, and communities. With us, you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow, and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us, which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
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