Senior Facilities and Buildings Control Manager

Position: Senior Facilities and Buildings Control Manager (Permanent)
Anderson Knight is delighted to be working on a retained basis with an Iconic, World renowned business based in Glasgow.

The Senior Building Services Control Manager will be responsible for leading and managing all technical, engineering, and building maintenance operations across multiple sites.
The role will oversee planned and reactive maintenance, asset management, lifecycle planning, operational support and technical project delivery. They provide strategic direction to our facilities teams and contractors, ensuring high standards of service delivery, sustainability, and cost control. The role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and the ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships, often within critical or high-profile environments.

Key Responsibilities

Hard Services & Asset Leadership

• Provide strategic oversight of all hard services across all sites, including mechanical, electrical, HVAC, fire & life safety, plumbing, asbestos management, security systems, and critical plant.

• Lead lifecycle planning and asset renewal strategies to ensure long-term reliability, resilience, and operational continuity.

• Ensure proactive inspections and condition surveys are completed, with clear action planning for maintenance, repair, or replacement.

• Oversee the asset register, ensuring records are accurate, compliant, and continuously updated with service history, lifecycle data, and change control.

Event Readiness, In-Event Support & Load-Out

• Ensure all building systems and services are fully operational and event-ready ahead of every show, exhibition, or live event.

• Coordinate and oversee technical hard services support throughout live events, responding rapidly to minimise downtime or disruption.

• Lead and support load-out operations, ensuring a smooth reset of venues, equipment, and infrastructure for subsequent events.

• Contribute to the global scheduling of key building services (heating, lighting, ventilation, and plant) aligned to the event programme.

Compliance & Statutory Oversight

• Act as compliance lead for all statutory hard services obligations, ensuring inspections, testing, and reporting are completed in line with legislation, standards, and best practice.

• Maintain and report against the Compliance Register, ensuring it remains accurate, complete, and audit-ready at all times.

• Ensure the FAC Risk Register is accurate, up to date, and actively managed, with emerging risks assessed and mitigations recorded.

• Lead asbestos management responsibilities in line with their Asbestos Management Policy and Plan, ensuring safe planning of intrusive works, control of ACMs, and delivery of UKATA ‘Duty to Manage’ (BOHS P405).

• Guarantee that all operations are carried out in accordance with H&S legislation, proactively embedding safe systems of work, risk assessments, and method statements.

Team Leadership & Contractor Management

• Provide direct leadership to the Building Services Managers and the Assets & Facilities Workflow Manager, aligning team delivery with the strategic objectives of the Head of Facilities & Compliance.

• Motivate, mentor, and develop the wider Facilities & Compliance team, embedding a culture of safety, accountability, and customer focus.

• Lead procurement and performance management of specialist contractors, ensuring compliance, quality, and timely delivery of services.

• Oversee site access, contractor scheduling, inductions, and permit-to-work systems (e.g., hot works, working at height, restricted access).

Digital Systems & Reporting

• Lead implementation and optimisation of the CAFM system, embedding smart workflows, SOPs, and digital-first reporting.

• Ensure all maintenance, compliance, and risk data is accurate, transparent, and audit-ready.

• Take ownership of monthly FAC reporting to the Head of Facilities & Compliance, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and alignment with KPIs.

Customer Service & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a key point of contact for internal stakeholders, organisers, partners, and contractors, ensuring effective communication of technical and compliance requirements.

• Deputise for the Head of Facilities & Compliance when required,…