At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage facilities, ensuring safety and efficiency across engineering sites.
- Company: Established engineering business focused on excellence and teamwork.
- Benefits: Competitive pension scheme and permanent position with regular hours.
- Other info: Opportunity for growth and hands-on involvement in diverse projects.
- Why this job: Be the key player in maintaining a safe and efficient engineering environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in facilities management, especially in engineering or manufacturing.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
Our client, a well-established engineering business, is looking for an experienced Facilities Manager, with experience within engineering environments, to take ownership of both locations — keeping buildings, plant, utilities and contractors running safely, compliantly and efficiently in support of a busy engineering and production operation. This is a hands-on, high-visibility role reporting directly to the Production Director, ideal for someone who's as comfortable managing a PPM schedule as they are negotiating a contractor SLA or standing in front of an auditor. The role is worked on regular days, Monday to Friday.
About the business: Their goal is excellence in engineering and exceeding customer expectations, built on values that guide everything they do: safety, quality, integrity, honesty and teamwork.
What you'll be doing:
- Managing the day-to-day running of our offices, workshops and storage areas across both sites
- Overseeing planned preventative maintenance and reactive maintenance for buildings, plant and equipment
- Keeping site utilities — power, water, HVAC, compressed air — reliable, compliant and cost-effective
- Leading on refurbishments, space planning and site improvement projects
- Carrying out site inspections, audits and risk assessments
- Managing permits, certifications, statutory inspections and compliance documentation
- Acting as the go-to person for facilities-related safety matters and emergency response
- Sourcing, appointing and managing contractors and service providers, including negotiating contracts and SLAs
- Making sure contractor work is delivered safely, on time and to spec
- Monitoring facilities budgets and finding opportunities for savings and efficiency
- Keeping accurate records of assets, maintenance and compliance
- Supporting equipment installs, relocations and decommissioning
- Working closely with engineering, production and IT to keep operations running smoothly
What we're looking for:
- Proven facilities management experience, ideally within engineering or manufacturing
- Solid working knowledge of building systems, maintenance practices and UK Health & Safety legislation
- Experience managing contractors, suppliers and service providers
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills, with real attention to detail
- Confident communicator who can manage stakeholders at all levels
- Commercially minded and cost-conscious
- Awareness of environmental management and sustainability practices
Based on-site with regular travel between Oldham and a second site, within 40 miles, and willing to provide occasional out-of-hours support for emergencies or planned works when required.
What's on offer: Regular days, Monday to Friday. Excellent company pension (5% employee / 10% employer). Permanent Position.
Facilities Manager in Oldham employer: Frey Consulting Group
Join a well-established precision engineering company in Tewkesbury, where you will thrive in a modern manufacturing environment dedicated to producing high-quality components for regulated industries like aerospace. Enjoy a stable role with excellent long-term prospects, including 33 days of holiday, a company pension scheme, and ongoing training opportunities, all while working with advanced machinery in a supportive and inclusive culture that values your growth and contributions.
