Facilities Manager - Soft Services
17 hours ago
Slough
Soft Services Manager – Scientific The Opportunity An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Soft Services Manager to take ownership of cleaning and support services within a highly regulated healthcare environment. This role plays a vital part in ensuring cleanrooms, controlled spaces, and general areas are maintained to the highest possible standards of cleanliness, safety, and compliance. What You’ll Be Responsible For Ensuring Standards • Take full responsibility for cleaning operations within cleanrooms and controlled environments, • Maintain strict compliance with all regulatory and hygiene requirements, ensuring full audit readiness, • Create, review, and implement SOPs relating to cleaning activities, • Monitor environmental standards, including contamination control and particulate levels, • Oversee a range of services including cleaning, waste disposal, pest control, laundry, and hygiene, • Maintain consistently high standards across both clinical and non-clinical settings, • Manage specialist cleaning activities such as terminal cleans and decontamination procedures, • Manage and support cleaning teams and supervisors to deliver excellent service, • Ensure all team members receive appropriate training in infection control, and health & safety, • Ensure all operations align with current health & safety legislation, • Conduct risk assessments and maintain safe working practices, • Perform regular quality checks and internal audits, • Maintain accurate documentation and cleaning records, • Support external inspections and regulatory audits, • Deliver services in line with agreed KPIs and SLAs, • Provide reporting on performance and service delivery, • Demonstrated experience in a Soft Services or Facilities Management role within regulated industries such as healthcare, pharmaceutical, or GMP environments, • Proven leadership and team management capability, • Solid understanding of health & safety requirements, • Experience with audits, compliance processes, and quality systems, • High attention to detail with a commitment to excellence, • Well-organised with strong problem-solving ability, • Comfortable working within strict regulatory frameworks, • A proactive leader who develops and supports others, • Driven to continuously improve standards and performance