Facilities & Contracts Manager (Healthcare)

Location: Wallingford, United Kingdom — onsite across two buildings

Salary: £35,000–£50,000 per year, depending on experience

Company

hirify.global is a healthcare scale-up operating pharmacy and operational facilities.

What you will do

• Own the day-to-day operation, maintenance, safety, compliance, and presentation of two commercial and industrial buildings.
• Manage planned and reactive maintenance for HVAC, electrical systems, lighting, water systems, doors, loading bays, roofing, building fabric, warehouse equipment, forklifts, cold storage, and associated plant.
• Maintain the PPM calendar, statutory examination schedules, compliance records, audits, inspections, and corrective actions.
• Lead Health & Safety management, including risk assessments, COSHH, safe systems of work, contractor safety, incident investigations, RIDDOR reporting, toolbox talks, inductions, and emergency planning.
• Own the full lifecycle of facilities contracts, including tendering, negotiation, SLAs, KPIs, supplier performance, renewals, and replacement decisions.
• Manage landlord and lease matters, facilities opex, capex cases, cost-saving initiatives, and small-to-medium refurbishment projects from scope through handover.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in Facilities Management or Building Services, ideally across multiple commercial or industrial sites.
• IOSH General Certificate or equivalent, with experience leading site Health & Safety systems and investigations.
• Working knowledge of UK statutory compliance, including LOLER, PUWER, EICR, Legionella and water hygiene requirements, and fire safety.
• Experience tendering, negotiating, and managing mixed facilities service contracts, with measurable savings or improvements.
• Experience specifying and delivering capex projects, including writing detailed scopes of work.
• Ability to act as the escalation point for urgent facilities, equipment, and cold-room failures.

Nice to have

• NEBOSH Diploma, IWFM membership, or a fire risk assessor qualification.
• Experience in healthcare, pharmacy, food, life sciences, or another regulated environment.
• ISO 45001 or ISO 14001 implementation experience.
• CAFM or maintenance management system implementation experience.
• Landlord and tenant, trade, electrical, mechanical, or refrigeration experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Onsite role with flexible working options where applicable.
• Share options and an early opportunity to contribute to a healthcare scale-up.
• Private medical insurance and a gym and wellness benefit through Wellhub.
• Cycle-to-work and electric-car schemes.
• 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, generous parental leave, and an annual company retreat.

Hiring process

• Application review with a response within one week.
• 30-minute screening call via Google Meet, followed by a 60-minute technical interview onsite with a walk-through of both buildings.
• 30-minute final interview via Google Meet with a member of the UK operations team.