Science and Technology Facilities Council
Salary: £36,650 - £39,032 | UKRI Band D
Hours: Full-time
Contract Type: Open-ended (permanent)
Location: Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, Cheshire WA4 4AD
Closing date: 21st September 2025
Together, our scientists, technologists, engineers and business support team explore the unknown and turn what they find into work that changes the world around us. Whether it's sending probes into space or finding new ways to treat cancer, everyone here plays a vital role in making a positive difference to society.
Come and discover how much you can achieve when you're surrounded by world-leading experts, encouraged to constantly learn and empowered to explore your curiosity.
We have a key operational opportunity for an Estates Deputy Facilities Manager to join the Estates Services team at Daresbury Laboratory, who will have responsibility for the following in house teams:
* Security (in-house).
* Logistics (in-house).
The role holder will support the Estates Facilities Manager with the management of the following contracted services, deputising during their absence, along with the management of a resource budget of circa £1m per annum and a typical capital budget of up to £300k.
* Cleaning services.
* Waste management.
* Fitness and wellbeing centre.
In addition to your day-to-day management responsibilities, the role holder will:
* Identify projects, processes and systems to further embed environmental sustainability and carbon reduction within all activities and operations.
* Complete operational risk assessments and standard operating procedures for all facilities services.
* Plan for succession and business continuity, including the structured development of those reporting directly to you, ensuring that they are capable of deputising in your absence, and maximising their career opportunities.
* Actively engage customers - identifying their current and future service needs, assessing current resource capability, and translating into service enhancement proposals.
* Provide timely and accurate management information (MI) and data for inclusion in scheduled and ad-hoc management reports.
* Respond to emergency business continuity incidents which may occur during out-of-hours periods.
* Role model STFC values, attitude and behaviour to help embed and further develop a positive customer-centric culture within Estates Services.
* Actively engage in your own professional development through the STFC career development framework.
Essential Shortlisting Criteria
You will have supervisory or managerial experience in a facilities management role, ideally within a science, engineering or higher education sector or a level of education equivalent to HND/NVQ Level 5 in Facilities Management or other relevant discipline and along with the following desirable attributes:
* IOSH Managing Safely / NEBOSH General Certificate.
* Institute of Leadership and Management Level 3.
* NVQ/City Guilds Level 2 Customer Services.
* Introduction to the NEC4 Facilities Management Contract or experience of managing contracts.
STFC values their employees by offering a benefits package designed to provide an excellent work/life balance including 30 days' annual leave, 10.5 public and privilege holidays, flexible working hours, exceptional average salary pension scheme, social and sporting activities and societies and a subsidised restaurant.
We ask some of the biggest questions in the universe, to answer some of the biggest challenges in the world. What could you achieve with the world-leading facilities and experts of one of Europe's largest research organisations by your side?
Join us and discover what's possible by submitting your CV and covering letter which outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified, along with your motivation for joining STFC and this role.
As this job does not fulfil the UK Government minimum criterion for obtaining sponsored migrant worker status, we will be unable to apply for sponsorship for anyone not eligible to work in the UK. At interview, all shortlisted candidates are required to bring with them identification documents and original documents that prove they hold or can obtain the right to work in the UK. You can check your eligibility here: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y
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UKRI is an organisation that brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England and Innovate UK. Together, we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision ensuring the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.
Supporting some of the world's most exciting and challenging research projects, we develop and operate some of the most remarkable scientific facilities in the world. We are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge through fundamental research and delivering benefits for UK society and the economy through world-class research, skills and business-led innovation.
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As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
How to apply
Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the 'experience' section of the application.
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The Science and Technology Facilities Council is a world-leading multi-disciplinary science organisation where curiosity-driven, blue-skies thinking meets practical, application-led science and engineering. Our goal is to deliver economic, societal, scientific and international benefits to the UK and its people - and more broadly to the world.
One of Europe's largest research organisations, we're trusted to support, enable and undertake cutting-edge projects in an amazing diversity of fields. Through world-class facilities and people, we're driving ground-breaking advances in science, engineering, computing and technology. Our research seeks to understand the Universe from the largest astronomical scales to the tiniest constituents of matter, yet creates impact on a very tangible, human scale.
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