At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage facilities and ensure safety compliance across two dynamic sites.
- Company: Fast-growing precious metal recovery business with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and the chance to shape facilities management.
- Other info: Opportunity to work in a collaborative environment with regular travel.
- Why this job: Lead health and safety initiatives while making a real impact in a specialist industry.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in facilities management and NEBOSH diploma required.
The predicted salary is between 37338 - 45000 £ per year.
Our client is a fast growing specialist precious metal recovery business, working with mining operations to recover high-value materials from waste streams. Their operations span two sites including a pilot processing plant in the North East and laboratory office facilities in Oxford. They are looking for an experienced Facilities Manager to ensure both environments are safe, compliant, well-maintained and fit for purpose as they continue to grow.
Reporting to the Head of Technical Operations, you will take full responsibility for the management and delivery of all hard and soft facilities services across both sites, alongside ownership of health safety compliance and monitoring. This is a broad, hands-on senior role overseeing planned maintenance programmes and contractor relationships, conducting health and safety audits, managing site compliance and responding to facilities issues as they arise. The role can be based in the North East with regular travel to Oxford (once or twice a month).
The ideal Facilities Manager will need to be an effective operator across both sites, building strong relationships with staff, contractors and regulatory bodies alike.
Facilities Manager responsibilities:- Take full ownership of all hard and soft FM services across both sites, including laboratory, pilot plant and office facilities.
- Develop and manage planned preventative maintenance (PPM) programmes, ensuring all assets are maintained to the required standard and statutory inspections are completed on time.
- Oversee reactive maintenance, prioritising and coordinating responses to ensure minimal disruption to operations.
- Act as the lead for health safety across both sites, ensuring full compliance with UK health safety legislation.
- Develop, implement and maintain site-specific health and safety policies, risk assessments, safe systems of work and emergency procedures, tailored to the specific requirements of laboratory and processing plant environments.
- Manage the facilities and health and safety budget across both sites, tracking expenditure, identifying efficiencies and reporting to the Head of Technical Operations.
- 5+ years in senior facilities management role with clear accountability for both hard and soft FM services.
- NEBOSH diploma.
- Demonstrable experience managing health safety compliance across industrial, laboratory or processing environments.
- Multi-site management experience is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with the specific facilities and compliance requirements of laboratory or industrial processing environments is a significant advantage.
This is a senior role with a broad scope including full ownership of facilities and health safety across two sites and represents a great opportunity to shape and professionalise the facilities function within a growing, specialist business.
Facilities Manager - Middlesbrough - Competitive employer: Bond Williams
Join a dynamic and rapidly expanding precious metal recovery business in Middlesbrough, where your expertise as a Facilities Manager will be pivotal in ensuring safe and compliant operations across our innovative sites. We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative work culture that values employee growth, offering opportunities for professional development and the chance to make a meaningful impact in a specialist field. With competitive benefits and a commitment to health and safety, this role not only promises a rewarding career but also the chance to contribute to sustainable practices in the industry.
