Senior Facilities Manager
Location: Mercia Park, Appleby Magna
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours : Full time, 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Salary: £65,000 per annum, plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
About the Job
Relationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special. Youll have a critical part to play in our team, ensuring uptime, safety, and productivity in a high-volume logistics environment. You will lead facilities operations, manage vendor contracts, support capital improvement initiatives, and ensure site complies with regulatory and company standards at all times.
Here at Unipart we dont just have a way of working, we have The Unipart Way. It allows everyone in our team to pursue their own personal and professional goals to a world class level, through Unipart's From Gate to Great training and development program.
As the Senior Facilities Manager youll oversee the operational efficiency, maintenance, and compliance of warehouse and distribution centre facilities at Mercia Park site.
As part of your key responsibilities youll:
Establish and maintain excellent working relationships with internal and external partners
Drive continuous improvement in the delivery of site services through service partners
Undertake and manage operational CAPEX projects, ensuring delivery to agreed quality, cost, and timescale
Oversee the scheduled maintenance programme for site fabric and equipment, ensuring statutory compliance at all times
Negotiate, manage, and control all Hard and Soft FM service provider contracts, schedules, and KPIs
Maintain cost-effective and timely management of reactive and emergency repairs to site infrastructure and equipment
Ensure service partners adhere to all planned preventative and reactive maintenance schedules and contracted KPI's
Monitor service partners and contractors on site to ensure strict adherence to all health and safety and safe working practices
Develop and maintain an asset management strategy to optimise the lifecycle of plant and equipment
Manage the specialist procurement and inventory control of necessary fixtures, fittings, components, and maintenance tools
Produce and maintain regular reporting and presentation materials, including analysis and evaluation of costs by supplier and category
Assist with, set, manage, and control the Facilities budgets for the site
Ensure the system CAFM is accurately monitored and maintained for PPM schedules and records within contract RACI
Ensure site environmental compliance, manage waste streams, achieve corporate targets, and deliver sustainability opportunities
Own and deliver the Health, Safety and Welfare responsibility of the "built Environment," including managing MHE training processes and supporting accreditation audits
About You
Wed love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think youd be able to perform well in this role!
Knowledge of engineering services preferred
Demonstrable experience in similar role
Demonstrable experience in assisting with, setting, and controlling large-scale operational and capital expenditure (CAPEX) facilities budgets
In-depth knowledge of relevant current UK health, safety, welfare, and environmental legislation
Experience in preparing for and supporting internal and external accreditation audits
Knowledge of End to End Supply Chain process (Desirable)
Ability to identify potential value streams
A working experience with industry standards and regulations
Excellent Customer Services skills supported by good commercial understanding
Strong team player with a quality focus
Confident and self-motivated
A high degree of initiative and strong problem-solving capability
A self-starter attitude with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities autonomously
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.
You may also have experience in the following: Facilities Management (FM), Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement, Maintenance Management, Compliance Management, Health & Safety (H&S), Site Operations, Contractor Management, Project Management, Process Improvement, Resource Planning, Risk Management, Facilities Strategy
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