Bridge Recruitment

Bridge Recruitment Bridge is a leading recruitment consultancy with a reputable presence in the Workplace & FM Industry. We are recruitment experts and leaders in our field.

We seek skilled and qualified professionals to match the requirements of each assignment. Our focus is to successfully manage the lifecycle of any recruitment project, taking into account our expertise of market conditions in the Facilities Management industry. We listen to your brief and then apply a consultative approach to ensure we meet your requirements. We engage in your corporate expectatio

ns, culture and short/long term goals. By understanding your brief, it then allows us to apply the relevant recruitment processes, resulting in the appointment of the ideal Candidate for your opportunity.

We're looking for people in FM who can spare a few hours this autumn to change how a teenager sees our industry.Earlier ...
03/09/2026

We're looking for people in FM who can spare a few hours this autumn to change how a teenager sees our industry.

Earlier this year Michelle sat down with Elif Gurger, the new Careers Co-Ordinator at Highams Park School, to talk about something we care a lot about: getting more young people to see facilities management as a career worth having.

That conversation turned into a proper partnership, and this term there's a run of employability events where students get real help and real exposure to the world of work.

First up is a Year 9 Employability Day on 7 October: CV writing, personal statements, and interview practice. The students get far more out of it when the people in the room actually do the hiring.

That's where our network comes in. If you work in FM and can give a morning, you'd be helping young people build CVs that stand out and showing them jobs they didn't know existed.

The skills shortage everyone in our world complains about doesn't fix itself. It gets fixed in rooms like these.

If you can spare a few hours this term, or you know someone who'd be brilliant at it, get in touch: [email protected]

While most of the country switches off this bank holiday, someone's still keeping the buildings running.Facilities don't...
31/08/2026

While most of the country switches off this bank holiday, someone's still keeping the buildings running.

Facilities don't get a day off. Hospitals, transport hubs, stadiums, the offices that never fully close. Behind all of it are teams on shift, and the managers making sure it holds together while everyone else is at a barbecue.

It's easy to notice FM only when something goes wrong. The lights, the cleaning, the security, the plant that just works. The whole point of the job is that you don't have to think about it.

So this is a small thank you to the operations and contract managers, and their teams, working through the long weekend. The ones who plan the cover, take the call at 6am, and keep things moving.

We spend our days talking to the people who run these operations, and we don't take for granted how much skill and stamina it takes.

Enjoy the bank holiday if you get it. And if you're working it, we see you.

If you lead one of those teams and you're thinking about your next move, you know where we are.

Most management hires that go wrong don't fail on skills. They fail on fit.Someone can tick every box on paper, bring th...
25/08/2026

Most management hires that go wrong don't fail on skills. They fail on fit.

Someone can tick every box on paper, bring the right sector experience and the right CV, and still be wrong for how your team actually works. In FM, where a contract manager sets the tone for a whole site, that mismatch gets expensive fast.

It's why we offer DISC profiling as part of how we work with clients.

DISC is a simple, well-established way of understanding how someone communicates, makes decisions and handles pressure. Used well, it helps you see how a candidate will sit alongside the people already there, not just whether they can do the job on paper.

It isn't about boxing people in or hiring clones. It's about going into a management hire with your eyes open, and building teams that genuinely complement each other.

For a role that matters, at manager level or above, a bit of extra insight before you commit is worth a great deal.

Want to see how we use it? Drop me a message and I'll walk you through it.

You don't get a second chance at your first 90 days in a new FM role.Landing a senior role is the hard part, or so it fe...
21/08/2026

You don't get a second chance at your first 90 days in a new FM role.

Landing a senior role is the hard part, or so it feels. Then you start, and the real test begins.

The first three months set the tone for everything that follows. Get them right and people trust you. Get them wrong and you can spend a year clawing back ground you didn't need to lose.

A few things separate the leaders who settle fast from the ones who struggle.

They listen before they change things. Walking in and rearranging everything on day two rarely wins people over. The strongest new leaders spend the early weeks understanding how things work, and why, before they touch them.

They learn the people, not just the org chart. Who really gets things done, who's been carrying the team, and who needs backing.

And they pick one or two early wins that matter, rather than trying to fix everything at once.

None of this is about being the loudest person in the building. It's about earning trust before you spend it.

If you're about to step into a new FM role, or weighing one up, we're always happy to talk through how to make the first 90 days count.

The maths on FM contracts has never been tighter. Which is exactly why the right contract manager is worth every penny.W...
14/08/2026

The maths on FM contracts has never been tighter. Which is exactly why the right contract manager is worth every penny.

Wage floors are up. Employer National Insurance is biting on lower-paid, part-time staff. Sick pay now starts from day one for everyone. On a labour-heavy contract, where wages can be three-quarters of the cost, those pressures land straight on the margin.

You can't cut your way out of that. What you can do is run the contract well.

A strong contract manager is the difference between a site that's staffed efficiently, compliant and holding onto its people, and one that leaks money through overtime, agency cover and churn. In a tight-margin year, that's not a nice-to-have. It's the whole game.

The catch is that everyone wants that person, so the good ones rarely sit on job boards for long.

This is where hiring proactively beats hiring reactively. The best operations managers move because someone made the case, not because they were browsing.

If you're feeling the squeeze and know your operation needs a stronger hand, that's a conversation worth having now.

A consultation closing on 25 August could rewrite how FM firms staff their contracts. If you manage those contracts, it'...
11/08/2026

A consultation closing on 25 August could rewrite how FM firms staff their contracts. If you manage those contracts, it's worth ten minutes of your time.

The government's zero-hours reforms are out for consultation, and agency and flexible workers are firmly in scope. The direction of travel is guaranteed-hours offers, proper notice of shifts, and payment when shifts get cancelled at short notice.

This isn't an HR problem to file away. It lands on contract and operations managers, the people who build rotas, cover sickness, and flex labour up and down as sites demand.

If short-notice flexibility gets harder and pricier, the value of a manager who can plan resource properly goes up. Good scheduling stops being admin and becomes a margin issue.

It's still a consultation, not law, and the detail will move. But it closes on 25 August, and the smart play is to understand it now rather than react to it in 2027.

The employers who'll cope best are the ones with strong operational managers already in place. Worth thinking about before the rules land, not after.

Hiring someone who can run resource tightly across sites? Let's talk about what good looks like.

The government wants to bring cleaning and FM back in-house. That redraws the career map for a lot of managers.In June, ...
07/08/2026

The government wants to bring cleaning and FM back in-house. That redraws the career map for a lot of managers.

In June, ministers said they'd end "outsourcing by default" across government buildings, with a plan to move services back onto public payrolls as contracts expire.

Whatever you make of the politics, it matters for careers. When a contract goes back in-house, the people can move with it under TUPE, managers included. An FM manager who's spent 20 years contractor-side wakes up a public-sector employee, with a different culture, pay structure and route up.

For some, that's stability and a pension worth having. For others, it's a reason to look at where else their skills are wanted.

It shifts demand, too. Contractors losing public work compete harder for private contracts, which means competing harder for the managers who win and keep them.

The sector's been outsourcing-first for a generation. If that reverses even partly, the people who run these services need to think about which side of the line they want to be on.

Weighing up a move either way? Worth a conversation before you decide.

Every merger in our sector creates a group of very good managers wondering where they now fit.FM and cleaning is consoli...
04/08/2026

Every merger in our sector creates a group of very good managers wondering where they now fit.

FM and cleaning is consolidating fast. Big groups buying bigger ones, regional firms rolled up, private equity money everywhere. On paper it's about scale and margin. In practice, it reshuffles people.

Frontline contracts usually transfer under TUPE, so the day-to-day carries on. It's the management layer where the churn happens. Two regional managers become one. Bid teams overlap. An account director finds their role has quietly changed shape.

That's not always bad news for the individual. Some of the strongest contract managers we speak to came onto the market because their company got bought, not because they were unhappy.

For employers, it's an opportunity most people miss. When the sector's in flux, experienced FM leaders who'd never normally move are suddenly open to a conversation.

If you're hiring at manager level or above, this is the moment to be proactive rather than wait for a CV to land.

Know a good manager unsettled by a takeover? That's exactly who we should be talking to.

Building safety compliance in FM used to be the job nobody wanted. Now it's one of the most secure careers in the sector...
31/07/2026

Building safety compliance in FM used to be the job nobody wanted. Now it's one of the most secure careers in the sector.

For years, compliance was the box-ticking corner of facilities management. Important, but not exactly a career people chased.

That's changed, and fast. Since the Building Safety Act, competence isn't a preference any more, it's a legal gate. Buildings can't progress without the right people signing off the right things, and the regulator's approval backlog shows just how much demand there now is for people who genuinely know this stuff.

For FM Managers, that's a real opportunity. Golden-thread documentation, accountable-person support, fire safety, building-safety compliance. These aren't side skills any more. They're some of the hardest roles in the sector to fill, and some of the best protected.

For employers, it's a warning worth heeding. If your compliance capability is thin, you're exposed, and everyone's fishing in the same small pool of qualified people.

The managers who invest in this are making themselves close to indispensable. The employers who hire for it early are the ones who won't be caught short.

If building safety is a gap in your team, it's worth a conversation before the gap becomes a problem.

Sometimes you meet someone and you just know good things are coming.That's how it felt when Michelle sat down with Elif ...
30/07/2026

Sometimes you meet someone and you just know good things are coming.
That's how it felt when Michelle sat down with Elif Gurger, the newly appointed Careers Co-Ordinator at Highams Park School.

What were they talking about? How to get more young people interested in construction and facilities management - proper introductions, showing students the kinds of jobs they probably don't even know exist, and chipping away at the skills shortage everyone in our world keeps talking about.

There's a lot to do over 2026/2027, and we're up for it.

But we can't do it alone. If this is something you care about too, come and be part of it.

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Wednesday 9am - 5pm
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