Salary: Please state your expectations within your application

Contract: Full Time, 42 hours a week

Location: The Nigel Doughty Academy, Nottingham, NG2 7SR

Working Arrangements: On site

Closing Date For Applications: 14th April 2026

The Perks of the Job:

• Opportunity to access tickets for events at The City Ground.

• Employee Assistance Programme.

• Access to high street and gym discounts.

• Discount within our Club shop.

• Free on-site parking.

Role Overview

Based at The Training Ground, this role will oversee all aspects of facilities management across the site, with a strong focus on maintenance services, cleaning services, waste management, and overall site operational elements. This includes the management of schedules to ensure facilities are consistently prepared and suitable for use by the first team and all levels of the academy.

The Facilities Manager will play a key role in delivering a first-class environment for players, coaching staff, and sporting teams, ensuring all facilities are consistently maintained, compliant, and ready for use at all times. A keen eye for detail and high standards is essential, and prompt response to requests particularly from the first team is critical to the smooth operation of the facility.

This role requires a proactive and hands-on leader, capable of managing a multidisciplinary team, including maintenance staff, cleaners, and external contractors. The successful candidate will oversee rotas and operational schedules, ensuring they are effectively reviewed, communicated, and embedded within facilities processes.

The role holds clear responsibility for compliance and statutory compliance across the site, with a strong emphasis on Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and ensuring all systems and assets are maintained in line with regulatory and operational requirements.

There is a strong emphasis on the operational functionality of all buildings and infrastructure, ensuring they are fit for purpose and support high-quality operations across both weekday and weekend activities. The role will also oversee weekend operations, ensuring appropriate engineering provision is planned, scheduled, and clearly communicated.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Oversee the day-to-day facilities management of The Training Ground.

• Lead and manage the maintenance team, cleaning team, and relevant service providers, ensuring all areas of the site are maintained to the highest standards.

• Take full ownership of waste management processes, ensuring effective, safe, and sustainable disposal of waste across the site.

• Ensure all facilities are maintained in a consistent state of operational readiness to support training, recovery, staff activities, and matchday requirements.

• Manage and coordinate rotas and operational schedules, ensuring they are regularly reviewed, clearly communicated, and aligned with site requirements.

• Oversee weekend operations, ensuring appropriate engineering support is planned, scheduled, and clearly communicated to maintenance staff.

• Manage the site’s maintenance technician(s), ensuring that planned and reactive maintenance tasks are completed effectively.

• Develop, implement, and manage a robust Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) programme.

• Ensure full compliance with all statutory requirements, maintaining accurate records, certifications, and documentation across all systems and assets.

• Monitor and manage maintenance and cleaning budgets, ordering supplies and consumables as required, and reporting anomalies to the Head of Facilities.

• Coordinate and supervise external contractors and service providers, ensuring compliance with club policies, statutory requirements, safety standards, and quality expectations.

• Conduct regular inspections and audits of facilities, resolving issues proactively.

• Maintain all required documentation and logs, including compliance records, contractor files, and safety certifications.

• Lead on minor refurbishments and improvement projects across the training ground site.

• Support and contribute to club-wide environmental and sustainability initiatives.

• Support the wider facilities team with projects at other club sites (e.g., the City Ground) as required.

• Be present and operational for all home fixtures, including midweek and weekend games, and any special events hosted at the stadium.

Skills, Experience and Knowledge:

Essential:

• Previous experience in a facilities management role

• Experience managing maintenance and cleaning operations within a commercial, operational, or high-performance environment

• Experience managing and leading teams

• Strong knowledge of health & safety compliance, statutory compliance, risk assessments, and contractor management

• Experience managing Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) systems

• Full UK driving licence

Desirable:

• Experience in a professional sports or elite training environment

• Experience in the use of Halo event management software

• Health & Safety qualification (e.g., IOSH, NEBOSH)

• Experience leading capital works or minor refurbishment projects

Forest For Everyone

At Nottingham Forest Football Club we are committed to creating an environment where differences are respected, individuality is celebrated, everyone feels valued, supported, and included. Our goal is to ensure every member of our team can be themselves, contribute fully, and reach their potential without barriers.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Mental Wellbeing

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from talented people of all backgrounds regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We continue to develop policies and practices that promote equality, diversity, inclusion and mental wellbeing across our workforce. To help us measure progress and hold ourselves accountable, we ask all applicants to provide accurate diversity information during the recruitment process.

Disability Confident Committed Employer

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, taking positive steps to attract, recruit, and support disabled people. As part of this commitment, we work hard to ensure our recruitment processes are fair, inclusive, and accessible to everyone. We are committed to offering interviews for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for a role and provide reasonable adjustments at every stage from the application process through to ongoing support in the workplace.

If you are likely to meet the definition of being a "disabled person" according to the Equality Act 2010, you may be eligible to apply for an interview via the Disability Confident Scheme. Please indicate this in your application form. The information you share with us about your health or disability will not be used in recruitment selections.

Our Commitment to Safeguarding

As part of the Club’s commitment to safeguarding, the successful applicant may be required to undergo a Disclosure Barring Service (“DBS”) check or an enhanced DBS check. The results of a DBS check will be considered on an individual basis, and the Club will act in a proportionate manner when deciding whether or not to proceed with the appointment.

An FA Enhanced DBS disclosure is required for all relevant new appointments to the Club. Individuals will be asked to declare any convictions, cautions or reprimands, warnings or bind-overs that may have been incurred. The Club reserves the right to carry out risk assessments where content has been disclosed on a DBS disclosure if it feels that it is relevant to the job requirements. Failure to satisfy the Club and the PL's safeguarding requirements may lead to the job offer being withdrawn or, if they have already started employment, summary termination of the employment.

Health and Safety

At Nottingham Forest Football Club, we are committed to ensuring a safe and healthy working environment for all employees. In accordance with the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, you are required to take reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by your actions or omissions at work. You must also cooperate with the Club's health and safety policies and procedures. Should you identify any health and safety concerns, please report them promptly to your manager or a member of the Health and Safety/Facilities team.