Facilities Management - Case Studies

Steven Roles

Finishing a 22-year career in the Royal Army Medical Corps this month, as a Staff Sergeant Combat Medical Technician, 39-year-old Steven Roles is looking for his first civilian job. Rating his ‘management and leadership, facilities management, and health and safety training and experience as useful’ his service in the UK and Germany included operational tours in Iraq, Northern Ireland and Bosnia.

He takes with him a range of formal qualifications which include such subjects as environmental management, NVQ assessment, manual handling, health and safety, risk assessment, energy and waste conservation. Following a Career Transition Workshop – ‘CV writing was very helpful as was some of the direction in job hunting’ – he took a four-week residential facilities management course at the Resettlement Training Centre that included the BIFM Part 1 Exams. He also gained First Aid at Work Trainer & Assessor and CIEH Professional Trainer Certificate qualifications through PPD Solutions.

‘Though I have not yet secured employment one area I was keen to pursue was my Membership of BIFM,’ observes Roles. ‘Membership is acknowledged throughout the sector as demonstrating a good knowledge of FM and, for a lot of FM roles, membership can be the difference between securing or not the role you are seeking. It is also a vital networking tool.’

Published May 07