Interim Facilities Manager Location: Harwell, UK On Site Role Hourly Rate Barinthus Biotherapeutics is searching for an Interim Facilities Manager to cover the open position whilst we search for a permanent employee. Management of labs, offices, and building facilities & Line Management of Laboratory Services Team Responsible for managing facilities, including labs and offices. Working closely with all groups to ensure that the facility provides a safe and productive working environment for all, ensuring the building is operational at all times. Facilitate assessment, planning, coordination and implementation of new solutions as needed. Responsible for everyday organisation, running, and maintenance of the labs, offices, and building facilities. Develop global policies, procedures, and SOPs to govern and centralise working practices in the laboratories. Responsibility and oversight of overarching laboratory working practices, room-specific procedures, and compliance with laboratory procedures. Oversight of lab risk assessments & COSHH forms Accountable for laboratory and office equipment trackers and ensuring that routine maintenance, renewals, servicing, and other critical actions are completed in a timely manner; storage of all relevant documentation. Responsible for the tracking and progressing of facilities actions; ensuring follow-up on key items to support. Manage our third-party service providers, negotiating on contract renewals for maintenance of building facilities. Responsibility for all facilities systems. Act as the key point of contact between Barinthus Bio and landlord; liaising with external contractors. Other Responsibilities of Role Responsibility to be on-call for out of hours work to attend the facility or supervise issues with the facility Together with the CBO, VP of HR and external consultants, helping to conduct regular GDPR compliance audits and responsible for tracking and progressing actions. Working with the Director of Quality to support the maintenance of our companywide contracts database. Supporting open communication throughout the organisation and external communication. Working with finance to ensure compliant ordering as well as budget planning and reporting for labs and facilities. Notice to recruiters Barinthus Biotherapeutics' internal Talent Acquisition leads recruitment and employment for Barinthus Biotherapeutics. Unsolicited resumes sent to Barinthus Biotherapeutics from recruiters do not constitute any type of relationship between the recruiter and Barinthus Biotherapeutics and do not obligate Barinthus Biotherapeutics to pay fees should we hire from those resumes. Barinthus Biotherapeutics operate a preferred list of recruitment suppliers, any and all enquiries about joining us as a supplier should be directed to Barinthus Biotherapeutics' TA Team. We ask that external recruiters and/ or agencies not contact or present candidates directly to our hiring manager or employees.