Facilities Manager – Leighton Moss

Are you a highly organised, self-motivated, creative problem solver looking to develop your administrative and facilities management skills? Would you like to work at one of the RSPB’s flagship reserves?

We’re looking for a new Facilities Manager at Leighton Moss reserve. This is a fantastic opportunity to join the team at Leighton Moss in North Lancashire, in the heart of the Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape. Known for its stunning reed beds, rare wildlife like bitterns and otters, and exceptional visitor experience.

As Facilities Manager, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring this inspiring place runs smoothly – helping both people and nature thrive.

Where else can you step out of the office for your lunch break and be immersed in nature?  

As the Facilities Manager you will be responsible for ensuring the infrastructure and support services are well maintained, operate within budget, in line with good practice and within legal frameworks. You will provide comprehensive business/operational support facilitating delivery of work programmes and an effective working environment. You will ensure RSPB is accredited by Green Dragon and compliance is maintained. You will manage the administration of the site as well as managing staff and volunteers and ensuring a high level of customer service. 

Essential skills, knowledge and experience:

• You will have the self-motivation and organisational skills to effectively prioritise and deliver a large and varied workload – maintaining our buildings, supporting the visitor business and land management operations and providing admin support to managers.
• Ability to ensure H&S compliance is met, knowledge and experience of writing and implementing Risk Assessments and Emergency Procedures.
• Good verbal and written communications skills and ability to engage with a wide range of audiences.
• Ability to plan, prioritise and problem solve. Be calm in a crisis, be able to juggle multiple demands on your time and cope well in reactive circumstances and be confident and assertive in a team environment.
• You will be proficient at using a variety of IT programmes/software including Microsoft 365 especially SharePoint and show an ability to learn unknown/bespoke software packages that are utilised within the RSPB. You will be able to impart this knowledge on others.
• Ability to provide high levels of customer service.

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience:

• To be confident in building management and dealing with trades people.
• Be able to support the site manager with a level of budget management.
• You will have experience of overseeing the administration of the site.

Benefits:

• Competitive Pay: Fair salaries aligned with sector standards.
• Generous Leave: 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service.
• Well being Support: Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing resources.
• Learning & Development: Continuous opportunities for professional growth and training.
• Inclusive Policies: Family-friendly policies, including enhanced parental leave
• Life assurance, sick pay, flu vaccines
• Volunteer day each year with a charity of your choice
• Up to 7% pension match
• Option for a sabbatical after 5 years

Additional Information:

Leighton Moss is really easily accessible:

• • it’s 3 minutes walk from Silverdale train station, which has trains every hour or so, 15 mins to Lancaster, 40 mins to Preston.
  • It’s 15 minute drive from J35 of the M6.

The role is site based, there may be potential for occasional days working from home.

This is a permanent, full-time role for 37.5 hours per week. 

We are looking to conduct interviews for this position from week commencing W/C 25th August. For further information please contact [email protected]

As part of this application process you will be asked to complete an application form including evidence on how you meet the skills, knowledge, and experience listed above. Please use the numbered essential & desirable criteria above as individual headings to focus your skills, knowledge and experience. Don’t be concerned if you cannot complete information for all the criteria but do bear in mind that many skills are transferable.  Also, rather than saying you can do something or have experience of something, give real examples that demonstrate it.  

We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.

The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.