Head of Facilities
When a business has just one location, there’s always going to be a person whose job it is to ensure the building itself and all its functions are running properly. It might be an office manager, plant manager or such like. But businesses with multiple locations need a more strategic, joined-up and budgeted way to run the properties, and that task is fulfilled by the head of facilities.
The role will be a blend of planning the facilities for future needs, ensuring the books are balanced for all the locations and planning maintenance, cleaning, services, safety and so on – in summary, keeping the facilities functional, profitable, legal and sustainable.
Under the head of facilities, management usually acts on a hierarchical basis, more so in larger operations with multiple plants, offices, depots and storage facilities. That means the head of facilities will often be based in the head office and will delegate tasks and goals to facility managers at the locations, but there will also be regular attendance on-site within the region covered.
The skills required
Head of facilities jobs usually demand experience in overseeing multiple locations of an organisation, and successful candidates will be able to demonstrate a strong aptitude for delegation to, and communication with, the various location managers. The job will be a blend of strategic planning and more urgent decision-making – you could be where the buck stops when a location manager needs to troubleshoot a pressing issue and a potentially costly decision has to be made and then justified to the board.
For some positions, however, experience managing a single facility will be a sufficient qualification, as many of the budgetary and management skills scale up straightforwardly.
Head of Facilities Jobs in Dumfriesshire
Dumfriesshire is a region in the central south of Scotland, bordering England to its south, Kirkcudbrightshire and Ayrshire to its west, and Lanarkshire, Peeblesshire and Selkirkshire to its north. Today it is part of Dumfries and Galloway, a county that stretches roughly along the route of the A7 in the east all the way over to the Irish Sea in the west. Its historic county town, Dumfries, is relatively large, with a population of over 40,000, and the same town is now the headquarters of Dumfries and Galloway. The town of Gretna, famous for marrying eloping couples, is just inside Scotland in Dumfriesshire.
The A74(M) and the main England to Glasgow railway passes through Dumfriesshire, and these provide good links between the cities of Edinburgh and England. There is certainly the potential for Head of Facilities jobs to be created in Dumfriesshire, as there is wherever good communications link major centres of population.
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