Works Authorisation Manager

Do you want to be part of a team that is responsible for transforming our workplaces through the delivery of workplace experience and Facilities Management?, We have a great opportunity for a Works Authorisation Manager. Your role will be reviewing, challenging, and quality checking the estimates we receive from Mitie our third party supplier above £1,000 before approving the works to be scheduled for completion. Your responsibilities will include:

• Reviewing work requests from our third-party supplier, validating work estimates/ standard of completed works and ensuring compliance with regulations, and contract agreements
• Assuring commercial value of all works against standards and build works and assisting the commercial team with billing queries/issues.
• Managing backlogs, through reporting, escalating business critical issues and recommending mitigating actions
• Producing regular and ad-hoc reporting including costs, budget spend, project progress and performance.
• Collaborating with various stakeholders to support training and projects
  
  Experience working in a facilities management role and dealing with work requests
• Experience of cost assurance to ensure your optimising expenditure and spending in the right way
• Experience of maintaining and monitoring project actions to completion.
• Great attention to detail, and ability to juggle work, as you'll be supporting various works requests, contracts, projects, budgets and costs amongst other things
• Must have good experience within the buildings industry with knowledge of both Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) and Fabric trades.
  
  At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative. As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role. We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies