Facilities Manager

Job Title: Facilities Plant Manager

Location: Witham (Onsite 5 days per)

Salary: Up to £55kk per annum (DOE) + fantastic benefits including enhanced maternity/ paternity and life assurance

What’s in it for me?

These roles come with a competitive salary and industry leading training and development to support you throughout your career.

Core benefits include:

• 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays + (the option to buy or sell 5 per year)
• Health Care Cash Plan
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Volunteering Programme

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Plant Facilities Manager to manage the upkeep, development, and maintenance of the Witham M&M sites in a robust, safe & cost-efficient manner, under the guidance of the Llaboratory & HSE Managers.

The Facilities manager will be responsible for ensuring that there are preventative maintenance systems in place to help maximise the uptime of plant, laboratory equipment, and instrumentation.

Responsibilities will include:

• Managing and leading the change of facilities to ensure minimum disruption to the business core activities, fully utilising ‘Upkeep’ our chosen CMMS application.
• Accountable for ensuring all works are conducted safely in accordance with legislation and BV policy & procedures.
• Ensuring that the built environment and in scope equipment assets are maintained to meet compliance and licensing requirements
• Responding quickly to emergencies that arise in the workplaces and dealing with them appropriately.
• Coordination and planning of essential business services at Witham M&M sites including maintenance, cleaning, grounds & buildings, HVAC, mechanical & electrical, heating/cooling, security & effluent treatment plant.
• Managing renovations, refurbishments, and office moves
• Leading and coordinating the team to cover multiple areas of responsibility.
• Monitoring contractors and checking that the work assigned to workers and contractors is completed in a satisfactory manner.
• Responsible for reducing energy consumption and promoting sustainability in our buildings to enable us to achieve our GHG emissions target of 42% reduction in scope 1 & 2 by 2030.
• Managing budgets and controlling maintenance costs
• Responsible for implementing the asset management strategy.

Experience & Skills Required:

• Excellent team working and inclusive communication skills
• Problem-solving and analytical skills
• Decision-making and teamwork skills
• Ability to manage and lead projects and teams.
• Attention to detail and customer service skills.
• Good knowledge of IT packages
• Organisation and time management skills
• Ability to manage a complex, varied workload.
• HSE qualified
• ILM management Qualified
• IWFM Level 3 qualification in facilities management
• Full driving licence and valid passport

About Us

At Bureau Veritas CSR is embedded in our DNA. Our mission is to reduce our clients’ risks, improve their performance and help them innovate to meet the challenges of quality, health & safety, environmental protection, and social responsibility.

Our goal is to build a team that looks like the world around us, and we want our people to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a world of trust for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a true sense of belonging.