Job title: Facilities Manager

Hours: 37.5

Location: Havant  

Salary: Competitive

Looking for a workplace that ignites your passion, values respect, encourages innovation, and embraces being dynamic? Look no further! This role offers you the opportunity to join a team that believes in empowering its colleagues to unlock their full potential with Horizon.

The Trust:

Horizon Leisure Centres is a leisure trust operating since 1997, with centres in Waterlooville, Havant and Guildford. We are passionate about health and wellbeing and are committed to making an outstanding positive impact on our customers and within our local community. Our mission is to support and inspire our local communities to live healthier and happier lives by providing affordable access to sport and leisure facilities to all.

The Role:

The Facilities Manager is responsible for leading Horizon Leisure’s estate and asset management approach, ensuring that our buildings, infrastructure, plant and equipment are maintained, optimised and strategically developed to support operational excellence, customer experience and long-term sustainability.

The role provides leadership across planned and reactive maintenance, asset lifecycle management, contractor performance, and capital investment planning across Horizon’s leisure centres and wellbeing facilities.

Working closely with the Head of Operations, the Facilities Manager will develop and deliver a structured approach to estate management that ensures facilities remain safe, compliant, financially sustainable and fit for the future.

This role works in collaboration with the Health & Safety Manager to ensure the estate supports Horizon’s wider compliance and risk management framework.

Interested? Want to know how you can join our team? Take a look at this great opportunity! 

We are looking for a Facilities Manager to join us in transforming our business from 'good' to 'great'! This is a thrilling time for our company, and we need a key team member like you to help us achieve unprecedented success. 

The main focus of the role will be to:

• Lead the development and delivery of Horizon Leisure’s Asset Management Strategy across all operational sites.

• Develop and maintain a rolling 5-year Asset Management and Lifecycle Strategy covering all property, plant and equipment.

• Ensure lifecycle planning informs long-term estate sustainability and operational performance.

• Work collaboratively with Havant Borough Council on lifecycle planning, capital investment and estate improvements.

• Produce an annual capital prioritisation plan informed by condition surveys, lifecycle data and operational risk assessments.

• Identify and develop invest-to-save opportunities, including plant upgrades, infrastructure improvements and energy efficiency projects.

• Lead the delivery of capital improvement projects ensuring delivery on time, within budget and aligned to operational needs.

• Work collaboratively with the Health & Safety Manager to ensure building infrastructure supports the organisation’s health and safety framework.

• Maintain oversight of property, infrastructure and facilities-related risks within the organisational risk register.

• Work collaboratively with the Health & Safety Manager to ensure building infrastructure supports the organisation’s health and safety framework.

• Ensure all building systems and infrastructure are maintained in accordance with relevant regulations, standards and best practice.

Skills and competencies: 

• Strategic thinking and asset planning capability

• Excellent organisational and project management skills

• Ability to manage multiple priorities across multiple sites

• Strong leadership and people management skills

• Data-driven decision making

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management

Qualifications:

• NEBOSH General Certificate (desirable) or relevant facilities qualification.

• Facilities management qualification (e.g. IWFM, IOSH, or equivalent) desirable.

• Project management training or experience desirable.

What you can expect from us: 

• A comprehensive induction and training programme; you don’t need to have worked in the leisure industry before. We will teach you all you need to know! 

• Support from the wider team who have a great deal of combined knowledge and experience and who are eager to help you succeed! 

• An environment that encourages innovation and free thinking, surrounded by really dynamic, empowered individuals.  

• Variety; no two days is the same!

• Act as the organisational liaison with Horizon’s outsourced IT provider in relation to facilities infrastructure where required.

Benefits: 

• Free access to our award-winning gym’s and exercise classes for you and a +1

• Employee discounts and wellbeing platform

• Healthcare Cash plan

• Free 24/7 access to GPs using our SmartHealth plan

• Employee Assistance Programme - support for when you need it most 

• 23 days annual leave + 8 days bank holiday

• Internal recognition schemes 

• Opportunities for training, development and progression 

• Free onsite parking - subject to availability 

• Hybrid and family friendly policies  

• Generous company sick pay scheme 

• Employee referral scheme 

• Company pension scheme 

• Death in service benefit 

• And much more.... 

This role will be based at Havant but will be expected to travel to other company site as the need requires. 

Interview Process: 

The recruiting manager will review your CV and if shortlisted, you will be invited to a formal interview/assessment process where we will evaluate your suitability for the role. 

There may be times when due to the volume of applicants to need to close a vacancy early to avoid disappointment, be sure to get your application in as soon as possible! 

If you are a recruitment agency, please note we operate a PSL and do not take cold calls.