Branta Recruitment Ltd

The Role We are seeking an experienced and reliable Site Manager for a fast-paced refurbishment projects West of London. This project involves a large-scale refurbishment projects within a government buildings. Given the nature of the environment, you must be a proactive leader capable of managing subcontractors and ensuring strict adherence to health and safety protocols. Key Responsibilities Operational Oversight: Managing the project delivery of a refurbishment, ensuring all work meets technical specifications. Compliance: Upholding stringent health and safety standards required for government-site works. Reporting: Managing site logs and providing clear handovers for daytime teams. Multiple Subcontractors: Managing and coordinating multiple subcontractors. Requirements Certifications: Valid SMSTS or SSSTS is essential. First Aid: Ideally hold a valid First Aid at Work certificate. Experience: Proven track record in refurbishment projects, specifically flooring or high-spec fit-outs. Flexibility: Must be able to commit to the night shift and weekend work immediately. CSCS: Valid CSCS card (Black or Gold preferred). This role is ongoing contract work subject to gaining the correct govement security checks. Please only apply if willing to undergo extensive vetting.

The Role We are seeking an experienced and reliable Site Manager for a fast-paced refurbishment projects in Kent. This projects involves a large-scale refurbishment projects within a government buildings. Given the nature of the environment, you must be a proactive leader capable of managing subcontractors and ensuring strict adherence to health and safety protocols. Key Responsibilities Operational Oversight: Managing the project delivery of a refurbishment, ensuring all work meets technical specifications. Compliance: Upholding stringent health and safety standards required for government-site works. Reporting: Managing site logs and providing clear handovers for daytime teams. Multiple Subcontractors: Managing and coordinating multiple subcontractors. Requirements Certifications: Valid SMSTS or SSSTS is essential. First Aid: Ideally hold a valid First Aid at Work certificate. Experience: Proven track record in refurbishment projects, specifically flooring or high-spec fit-outs. Flexibility: Must be able to commit to the night shift and weekend work immediately. CSCS: Valid CSCS card (Black or Gold preferred). This role is ongoing contract work subject to gaining the correct govement security checks. Please only apply if willing to undergo extensive vetting.

Branta are seeking an experienced, technically robust Hard Services Manager for a contract role in Newcastle for a business-critical, 6-month contract. The successful individual will take operational ownership of the compliance, management, and strategic delivery of all building-related engineering services. You will be responsible for ensuring that statutory, mandatory, and organisational requirements are met while guaranteeing safe, reliable, and efficient mechanical, electrical, and building fabric services across the entire portfolio. Key Duties & Responsibilities Operational & Technical Leadership Lead and manage all daily mechanical, electrical, and building fabric maintenance activities across a diverse multi-site estate. Oversee and optimize active planned preventive maintenance (PPM), reactive breakdown pipelines, and critical lifecycle asset replacement programmes. Ensure all critical building infrastructure (HVAC, electrical distribution, BMS systems, water hygiene, fire safety systems, and lifts) operates safely and in absolute alignment with UK legislation. Act as the estate's Authorised Person (e.g., AP Electrical, AP Mechanical, AP Pressure Systems, or Water) as required. Compliance, Safety & Risk Mitigation Drive 100% statutory and regulatory compliance across the estate, ensuring strict adherence to Health & Safety at Work legislation, Electricity at Work Regulations, LOLER, PUWER, COSHH, and Water Safety (ACoP L8). Maintain pristine, audit-ready compliance files, asset registries, data logs, and comprehensive audit trails. Review, challenge, and sign off on contractor RAMS and implement strict safe systems of work (SSOW) and hot works permits. Contractor & Team Management Supervise and mentor the internal engineering workforce (supervisors, technicians, and craft personnel), planning and prioritizing workloads to maximize floor efficiency. Manage, audit, and hold accountable specialist third-party engineering contractors against strict SLAs and KPIs. Support the wider team with procurement, localized tendering processes, and performance evaluations for specialist hard services vendors. Commercial & Financial Control Administer fixed budgets for hard services, overseeing spend on planned works, reactive callouts, and minor capital upgrades. Track contractor billing, forecast financial requirements for the remainder of the contract term, and drive cost efficiencies. Contribute technical expertise to long-term capital investment schemes, estate resilience planning, and corporate decarbonization/sustainability goals. The Ideal Candidate (Person Specification) Qualifications & Technical Bias: A strong, time-served mechanical, electrical, or building services engineering bias. Recognized Authorised Person (AP) training credentials (electrical, mechanical, pressure, or water safety). Formal health and safety qualifications (IOSH Managing Safely or NEBOSH General Certificate). Professional engineering registration (IEng/CEng) is highly desirable but not strictly mandatory. Experience Required: Significant, verifiable track record managing Hard FM services within a complex, multi-site corporate, educational, public, or healthcare estate. Exceptional leadership credentials with experience managing both directly employed mobile trade technicians and specialist tier-1 external subcontractors. Proficient in the deployment, tracking, and close-out of tasks within corporate CAFM systems. Deep, practical knowledge of UK statutory compliance parameters, building regulations, and asset lifecycle asset tracking. Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate technical risks and maintenance disruptions clearly to senior leadership and estate users. Working Conditions & Additional Information Travel: Ability to travel efficiently between multi-site property locations across the North East region. Flexibility: Occasional evening or weekend oversight may be required to monitor major project works or system shutdowns. Participation in an out-of-hours on-call engineering escalation rota may be required. To Apply If you are an available, North East-based Hard FM leader looking for a an immediate start, apply online today or contact Astrid Camacho for more information.

Branta are seeking a proactive and organised Helpdesk Administrator to join a busy team in Gateshead. As the first point of contact for our clients, you will play a key role in ensuring smooth communication and efficient coordination across our operations. Key Responsibilities: Act as the first point of contact for client enquiries via phone and email. Log and manage jobs accurately, ensuring all client requests are captured correctly. Coordinate and schedule engineers and contractors to meet client requirements. Handle invoicing and support administrative processes related to job management. Maintain clear records and provide updates to clients and internal teams as required. Requirements: Previous experience in a similar administrative or helpdesk role is essential. Facilities Management or maintenance sector experience is highly desirable. Excellent communication skills, confident on the phone and via email. Strong organisational skills and attention to detail. Ability to manage multiple priorities and work in a fast-paced environment. Proficiency in Microsoft Office and basic job-logging software. Whats on Offer: Competitive salary and benefits. Supportive and friendly working environment. Opportunity to develop your career in Facilities Management and administration. Apply online today or contact Astrid Camacho at Branta Recruitment for more information and an informal chat.

Branta Recruitment are recruiting for an Internal Recruiter to join a facilities management company in Newcastle upon Tyne. This is a strategic role designed to industrialize the hiring process, reduce agency dependency, and work as a professional peer to hiring managers. We are looking for an individual who can build a predictable, scalable hiring engine to support an expanding project pipeline. Job priorities: Quality of Candidate: Prioritizing the "right" people to ensure long-term retention and performance. Reduce Hiring Manager Burden: Taking full ownership of the recruitment lifecycle so leadership can focus on operations. Volume & Speed: Meeting headcount demands for technical and site-based roles efficiently. Cost Control: Managing the supply chain and reducing overall cost-per-hire. Key Responsibilities Sourcing & Technical Pipeline Building Proactively source high-demand technical roles, including M&E Engineers, Supervisors, and Project Managers. Utilize Boolean searches and talent mapping to find "always-needed" talent. Build warm pipelines to shift from reactive advertising to proactive hiring. Process Management & Standardisation Define business needs through structured intake meetings with managers. Produce standardised, high-quality Job Descriptions and interview packs. Build a repeatable recruiting process from briefing through to onboarding. Stakeholder Partnership & Strategic Input Work as a true partner to hiring managers, providing market insights and salary benchmarking. Confidently "push back" on unrealistic expectations to protect the quality of the hiring process. Coach managers on interviewing best practices and selection techniques. Supply Chain & Employer Branding Act as the gatekeeper for the Preferred Supplier List (PSL), managing agency engagement. Implement and manage Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to improve data visibility. Strengthen the employer brand via social presence and consistent candidate communication. The Package & KPIs Basic Salary: 40,000. Commission scheme, linked to specific performance metrics TBC KPIs: Your success will be measured on Number of Roles Filled, Time-to-Hire, and Candidate Retention. About You You are a recruiter who understands that cost and quality are driven by a well-defined process. You have the confidence to manage a wide scope of work, the ideas to build a hiring engine from scratch, and the professional maturity to work directly with senior managers to bring the right people into the business. Apply online or contact Astrid Camacho for a confidential conversation.

About the Role We are seeking a highly organized and proactive Helpdesk Technical Co-ordinator to join our growing Facilities Management (FM) team. The helpdesk acts as our central nerve center, handling end-to-end workflow processes for all estates, building maintenance, and asset management issues reported by our commercial clients. As the Technical Co-ordinator, you will be responsible for logging reactive service requests, assessing urgency, allocating tasks to the correct internal engineering teams or external contractor supply chains, and managing workloads through to completion within agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Key Responsibilities Work Order Allocation: Assess incoming client requests, categorize the priority levels based on safety and business impact, and assign tasks to engineers with the correct mechanical, electrical, or structural skillsets. CAFM System Administration: Oversee and maintain the Computer-Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) system, including scheduling Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM), updating asset registers, and modifying database records. Performance Reporting: Run daily and weekly service reports to monitor outstanding tasks, track engineer performance, and proactively chase activities to prevent SLA or KPI breaches. Contractor Management: Assist in coordinating external maintenance contracts, monitoring insurance renewals, and ensuring contractor compliance paperwork is updated in the company system. Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary point of contact for engineers, clients, and subcontractors regarding scheduling updates, resource conflicts, or technical system queries. Person Specification Industry Experience: Proven experience working in an administration, coordination, or scheduling role within a Facilities Management (FM) or building services environment. Technical Awareness: A strong foundational knowledge of mechanical and electrical (M&E) building services to effectively understand and triage incoming maintenance faults. IT Literacy: Proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, and especially advanced Excel for data analysis), alongside experience navigating CAFM, IWMS, or CRM data systems. Organization Skills: Exceptional time management and problem-solving abilities, with the confidence to work under pressure, juggle competing demands, and operate independently without constant oversight. Communication: Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills, comfortable communicating with frontline trade operatives through to company directors and software providers. Desirable Criteria: Familiarity working with mobile field devices or PDA engineer-ticketing systems. A basic understanding of statutory compliance regulations relating to commercial plant and building engineering systems. What We Offer Competitive salary and performance reviews. Commitment to continuous personal learning and professional development. Collaborative, high-engagement team culture. If you are an experienced scheduler with Facilities Management & Maintrenance exerience apply online today or contact Astrid Camacho at Branta Recruitment for more information.