At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage facilities across two sites, ensuring safety and efficiency in operations.
- Company: Established engineering business focused on excellence and teamwork.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, excellent pension scheme, and permanent position.
- Other info: Regular travel between sites and occasional out-of-hours support needed.
- Why this job: Take ownership of facilities and make a real impact in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Proven facilities management experience and relevant qualifications required.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
Our client, a well-established engineering business with sites in Oldham and Sheffield, is looking for an experienced Facilities Manager 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
- A relevant facilities management qualification (e.g. IWFM, NEBOSH or equivalent)
- 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 Sheffield, and willing to provide occasional out-of-hours support for emergencies or planned works when required
What's on offer:
- £50,000 salary
- Regular days, Monday to Friday
- Excellent company pension (5% employee / 10% employer)
- Permanent Position
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