Facilities Manager (Maternity Cover) in Manchester

Location: Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester, M16 0PX

Salary: Competitive

Employment Type: Full-Time, 40 hours per week (Maternity Cover)

The Facilities Manager is responsible for the planning, delivery, and continuous improvement of all facilities operations across Emirates Old Trafford, including the cricket stadium, conference & event spaces, Hilton Garden Inn hotel, training facilities, hospitality suites, and surrounding grounds. The role ensures the venue remains safe, compliant, operationally efficient, and event-ready at all times, including support at our secondary site at Farington Cricket Ground.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Managing planned preventative maintenance across the estate, working with external contractors and the in‑house team to ensure works are completed and recorded properly.
• Overseeing the operation and maintenance of key stadium systems, including floodlighting, scoreboards, PA systems, HVAC, M&E plant, BMS, water systems and bowl infrastructure.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant UK legislation and standards, including electrical, gas, LOLER, PUWER, legionella, asbestos, fire safety, F‑Gas and emergency lighting requirements.
• Coordinating jobs, repairs, contractor activity and emergency maintenance through the CAFM system.
• Making sure the venue and its facilities are maintained safely, reliably and efficiently for a wide range of events and day‑to‑day operations.
• Managing, supporting and developing the Facilities team to help deliver departmental and club objectives.
• Supporting utility, energy and sustainability management, including initiatives that improve efficiency across the estate.
• Assisting with cost management, budgets, purchase orders, invoices, reports, trackers and other facilities administration.
• Supporting major event setup and delivery across Emirates Old Trafford, Farington Cricket Ground and outgrounds, including occasional unsociable hours to meet business needs.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience in facilities management within a sports, leisure, entertainment or similarly complex venue environment.
• Good working knowledge of PPM systems, CAFM software, BMS systems and asset management.
• Strong understanding of facilities compliance requirements and health and safety standards.
• A calm, decisive and solutions‑focused approach, particularly during live events or high‑pressure situations.
• Confidence working collaboratively with senior stakeholders, governing bodies, contractors and event partners.
• Strong IT skills, including Excel, Office 365, BMS and CAFM systems; purchase ordering software experience would be beneficial.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise workload and respond to competing demands.
• Experience managing, supporting and developing team members.
• IOSH or NEBOSH qualification would be desirable.

What We Offer

• Enhanced pension scheme
• Life assurance scheme
• Health Cash Plan covering everyday healthcare costs (including optical and dental)
• Confidential on‑site counsellor
• Enhanced annual leave, increasing with length of service
• Annual leave purchasing scheme
• Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working and TOIL (where role requirements allow)
• Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay
• Additional paid leave including birthday leave, grandparent leave, pet adoption leave, and moving house leave
• One paid volunteer day each year
• Up to five personal development days annually
• Career break opportunities (subject to eligibility)
• Two Lancashire Cricket Club memberships
• Staff discounts across on‑site retail, the Club shop, Caffè Nero and Hilton Garden Inn
• Regular team events and colleague recognition awards

Safeguarding Statement

Lancashire Cricket Club is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults at risk. We expect all colleagues to share this commitment and to support a culture where safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. Lancashire Cricket proudly agrees to, and abides by, the ECB Safe Hands Policy. For roles involving regulated activity or contact with children, young people, or adults at risk, Lancashire Cricket operates safer recruitment processes. This includes the requirement to complete the appropriate level of ECB DBS clearance before employment can commence, if this role is classified as a regulated activity.

Equal Opportunities

We look forward to hearing from you if you have skills that support our future vision. Lancashire Cricket is an equal opportunities organisation, and we are committed to providing new opportunities and striving for greater diversity. We welcome applications from all ages and backgrounds. It is a priority for Lancashire Cricket to ensure our Club appropriately reflects the communities we serve across the North‑West. In line with Sport England Guidance, we welcome applications from individuals with the appropriate skills and experience that can contribute to improving diversity of representation and thinking across the Club.