Overview of the role
Due to continued expansion at Bestway Healthcare, we're looking for an Assistant Facilities Manager to join our growing team.
Working alongside another Assistant Facilities Manager, you'll have responsibility for managing a Facilities Coordinator while supporting the Wholesale Facilities Manager to ensure our depots remain safe, compliant, well-maintained, and fit for purpose.
This is a varied, hands-on role where you'll coordinate both planned and reactive maintenance, manage external contractors, support statutory compliance activities, and help ensure our facilities operate efficiently with minimal disruption to business operations.
The role comes with a company vehicle and is based from our Leeds depot but with regular travel to our Durham site - the successful candidate must be comfortable with travelling when required.
Main Responsibility
- Support the day-to-day management of our warehouse and depot facilities, ensuring sites are safe, compliant, and well maintained.
- Coordinate planned maintenance, reactive repairs, statutory inspections, and minor projects across multiple locations.
- Manage contractors and suppliers, ensuring work is completed safely, on time, and to the highest standards.
- Carry out site inspections, identifying maintenance requirements and resolving issues quickly.
- Support compliance across key building services, including fire safety, electrical systems, HVAC, water hygiene, and security.
- Build strong relationships with depot managers and operational teams, providing a responsive facilities service with minimal disruption to operations.
- Support facilities improvement projects, refurbishments, office moves, and equipment installations.
- Help manage facilities budgets, maintenance records, and compliance documentation while identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
- Produce maintenance reports and performance updates, helping drive continuous improvement across the facilities function.
The Ideal Candidate
- Experience in facilities management, building maintenance, or property services within warehouse, logistics, manufacturing, retail, or industrial environments.
- Good understanding of building services, planned maintenance, statutory compliance, contractor management, and health and safety legislation.
- Experience using CAFM or maintenance management systems to manage assets, maintenance activities, and compliance records.
- Strong organisational, communication, and problem-solving skills with the ability to prioritise workloads and manage multiple tasks across a multi-site environment.
- Competent in Microsoft Office applications, with good administrative and reporting skills.
- Full UK driving licence essential.
- IOSH, IWFM, NEBOSH, or other relevant facilities management qualifications are desirable.
Bestway Healthcare is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.
Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.
Package Description
- Company vehicle
- Competitive salaries
- Excellent training & development opportunities
- Paid Holidays
- Workplace pension scheme
- Staff Discount
- Travel Loans and more…..
About the Company
For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.
Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.
The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.
We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.
We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.
‘Together we make a difference’
