Steve Lake

Steve Lake

Steve Lake

Operations Director

Steve is Operations Director at Switalskis. He has over 20 years experience in facilities management with wider senior leadership experience across multiple areas.

Switalskis Solicitors Ltd
Floor 9 West Village, 114 Wellington Street
Leeds
LS1 1BA

Steve joined Switalskis in March 2026. He helps improve the way complex services are run within the firm, with a strong focus and performance, compliance, commercial results and people.

Steve has considerable experience in facilities management. His work includes:

  • Hard facilities management
  • Multi-site contract leadership and mobilisation
  • Operational performance improvement and service transformation
  • Compliance, risk management and health and safety governance
  • P&L leadership, cost control and margin improvement
  • Stakeholder, client and supplier relationship management
  • Bid development, operational solution design and mobilisation support
  • Building confident, high-performing teams through change

Steve brings a combination of operational depth and strategic breadth, built across senior leadership roles in regional and national facilities management.

Steve also has a NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety.

APPROACH

Steve is a leader who takes the time to really understand what matters most to people before building clear, practical plans that bring people, performance and commercial goals together. He has a natural ability to create calm, confident teams around him, using data to improve visibility and keeping everyone focused on delivering services that are safe, compliant and reliable.

EXPERIENCE

With a strong track record in senior leadership roles, Steve has driven significant revenue growth while managing large, complex portfolios of facilities management contracts at a national level. He has successfully mobilised and delivered major compliance programmes across extensive multi-site estates, consistently meeting targets and exceeding client expectations even in the most challenging circumstances.

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