Facilities Management Supervisor

On a facilities management supervisor apprenticeship course, you’ll help manage the working environment within industrial and commercial buildings.

A qualified facilities management supervisor contributes to accomplishing company strategic and operational objectives. In addition, good facilities management provides a safe and efficient working environment daily, which is essential to the success of any business.

As a facilities manager, you will provide, maintain, and expand various services. Building maintenance, administration, and contract management are examples of property planning, space management, and communications infrastructure.

This apprenticeship will prepare you to manage a facility management service or a collection of estate and building management services, catering, cleaning, administration, or security.

You must manage employees while understanding contractual obligations and service performance objectives.

What you’ll learn

On a facilities management supervisor apprenticeship course, you’ll learn to:

• Create relationships in the workplace with colleagues from one’s employer and employees from the customer/client to achieve service objectives.
• Create and implement risk assessment methods per the facilities management service requirements for which they are responsible.
• Organise and allocate day-to-day activities to workers to guarantee that the facilities management service meets contractual requirements and service objectives.
• Keep checking the facilities management service’s expenditures to ensure they don’t exceed the budget.
• Maintain vendor relationships and get supplies for the facilities management service.
• Resolve day-to-day problems for the facilities management service to meet its service objectives and contractual responsibilities.
• Manage employee performance and contribute to their development.
• Follow the manufacturer’s instructions to ensure that resources (materials and equipment) are used efficiently.
• Accept accountability for your skill and knowledge development.

Entry requirements

You’ll usually need:

• Depending on the employer, but likely GCSEs or equivalent qualifications or experience, mainly where organisational skills are demonstrated.
• Apprentices without level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this before taking the end-point assessment.

Assessment methods

The End Point Assessment comprises two distinct assessment methods: 

• Written test (online and paper-based)
• Competency Based Interview

Duration, level, subjects and potential salary upon completion

Apprenticeship standard

More information about the Level 3 Facilities Management Supervisor Apprenticeship standard can be found here.

Apprenticeship end point assessment

For more information about the End Point Assessment Process, please read the Institute of Apprenticeships’ information page.