Area Manager

About The Role

Location: Peterborough (an surrounding areas) Salary: £32,500 per annum Contract Type: Permanent Hours Per Week: 40

As an Area Manager for our social housing portfolio, you will take ownership of day to day operational delivery across multiple sites, ensuring our teams provide a consistently high standard of service. You'll be the first point of escalation for clients and colleagues, building strong relationships, resolving issues swiftly, and making sure every site reflects The Atlas Way.

You will lead, coach, and support Supervisors and front line teams, carrying out regular site visits, audits, and performance reviews to ensure quality, compliance, and safety. You'll manage service performance, track missed visits, oversee payroll accuracy, maintain essential operational documentation, and support the mobilisation of new contracts.

In this role, you will also contribute to continuous improvement by identifying efficiencies, championing innovation, and promoting our values. This position is field based across the Peterborough area, with a blend of home working, client meetings, and time spent with teams on site.

About You

• You'll be an experienced operational leader who thrives in a fast paced, people focused environment. With a background in facilities management, cleaning, housing, or a similar sector, you'll be confident managing multiple sites and geographically dispersed teams.
• You communicate clearly, build trust quickly, and approach challenges with a solutions focused mindset. Strong organisation and problem solving skills are essential, along with the ability to manage performance, coach teams, and maintain excellent client relationships. You'll be commercially aware, confident with reporting systems, and committed to delivering safe, compliant, high quality services.
• Most importantly, you'll live our values, supporting colleagues, taking ownership, being honest, and always striving to deliver a WOW service. A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel between sites is essential.

About The Company What makes this job amazing?

• Full learning and support from Atlas to help you succeed in your role.
• Financial wellbeing benefits via Stream - real time access to earned wages and exclusive discounts at top retailers.
• Career progression opportunities within a growing company.
• Tailored learning and development support in areas that interest you.
• Recognition programmes, including our Stars of Atlas awards.
• Cycle to work scheme and workplace pension.
• A collaborative and supportive work environment where people value and help each other.
• An opportunity to work in a fast growing business with significant career advancement potential.

Who are we?

Atlas is a family of people drawn together by a passion for creating happiness in others.

Founded in 1986 and 100% owned by our employees, we are now one of the fastest growing business support companies in the UK, providing cleaning, security, pest and other support services to a wide range of companies, from globally recognised brands to small local businesses. Our success is down to one thing; the passion and commitment of our extended family, who together we deliver happiness across thousands of client sites every single day. To ensure we remain focussed on our purpose as we grow, we recruit first and foremost on our values so for those committed to living them alongside us, there is no better place to work.

Our Purpose

To create happiness in ourselves and others. We approach work and life with a sense of fun, optimism and belief, and strive to have a positive impact on the world around us. We show kindness and compassion to all those we meet, ensuring everyone is safe and healthy. We deliver on our promises and go the extra mile every day.

Our Values

We are a family - just like any other family, we laugh, cry, celebrate and commiserate together. We may come from many different backgrounds, but we're always there when it really matters. Whether it's with practical help and support, or simply a mug of tea and a shoulder to cry on.

Sharing makes us stronger - knowledge is more powerful when its shared. Which is why we share everything - our ideas, our expertise, our news and most of all our time. Show humility, share and work together, and anything is possible.

Own your space - you are Atlas. Don't be afraid to make decisions. Use your time wisely and treat every pound as if it was coming from your own pocket.

Be honest. Always. Have the courage to do the right thing, even when no one is watching. Whether it's owning up to a mistake, having a difficult conversation, or simply arguing a point you feel passionate about. Be yourself. Authenticity breeds trust. Trust brings happiness.

Treat clients like our best friends - if we're a family, then our clients are our best friends. Friends who you can be completely open and honest with, because they trust you to put their interests first. We take the time to listen to what's going on in our clients lives and pull out all the stops to make them feel happy.

Start with Wow - and never settle for less. Create time to focus on quality and prioritise long term solutions over short term fixes. Constantly seek opportunities to learn from others, and if something doesn't make sense, shout. Always ask yourself if there is more we can do to bring happiness to those around us.

Don't just talk. Do. We are a business that thrives on doing. The more we do, the more we succeed. Embrace change. Keep it simple. Keep meetings short. Plan just enough to succeed. And then get on with it.

Equal Opportunities

Atlas commits to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such aims to ensure that no employee or job applicant receives less favourable treatment or are placed at a disadvantage by imposed conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justified because of a protected characteristic. Atlas strives to see its workforce broadly reflecting the community in which its operation is based.