JOB TITLE: Engineering and Facilities Manager
DEPARTMENT: Facilities
REPORTS TO: Head Of Estates and Technical Services
LOCATION: Greater Manchester (Initially based in
Stockport with a move to Manchester Science Park in 2026) with regular travel to other premises.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
Our client has a new and exciting opportunity for an Engineering and Facilities Manager. You will be a key part of a small team that is responsible for delivering a customer-focussed, high quality and efficient facilities management and engineering management service. This is a varied and challenging role based principally at their new headquarters (in construction on the Manchester Science Park), which will open partially in October 2025, and fully by Autumn 2026. This is a great opportunity to join an organisation which is passionate about its mission to enable scientific discoveries that improve human health and which has a complex, evolving and interesting technical infrastructure and growing estate within which you can make a real difference.
This is a very hands-on role where you will have responsibility for supporting the facilities management and engineering needs of our client's brand-new state of the art headquarters, including fault diagnosis and first line repairs on numerous plant and laboratory systems, with an emphasis on large-scale and automated ultra-low temperature biological sample storage, sam...