Facilities Manager (Manufacturing)

Location: United Kingdom - Towcester, Northamptonshire

Company

hirify.global operates a manufacturing site requiring reliable facilities, utilities and critical infrastructure to support production ramp-up and business continuity.

What you will do

• Lead the site maintenance team and maintenance contractors.
• Develop and deliver planned preventative and condition-based maintenance programmes.
• Maintain HVAC, cleanroom, electrical distribution, standby power, UPS, chillers, compressors, gases, vacuum, fire-safety and building systems.
• Manage statutory inspections, compliance documentation, maintenance records, budgets, suppliers and contractor performance.
• Coordinate maintenance activities around production requirements and planned interruptions.
• Lead failure investigations, root-cause analysis, continuous improvement, commissioning and equipment handover activities.

Requirements

• Experience managing maintenance in a complex industrial, manufacturing, laboratory or critical-environment facility.
• Experience leading multi-skilled engineering teams and contractors.
• Knowledge of preventative and condition-based maintenance, electrical and mechanical systems, HVAC and building services.
• Experience managing maintenance budgets, suppliers and service contracts.
• Understanding of health and safety legislation, permit-to-work, isolation, lockout/tagout and compliance requirements.
• Strong planning, communication, organisational, leadership and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in semiconductor, microelectronics, cleanroom, pharmaceutical or other high-reliability environments.
• Experience with CMMS or maintenance-management systems.
• Electrical, mechanical, facilities or building-services qualifications.
• IOSH, NEBOSH or equivalent health and safety qualification.
• Experience with capital projects, equipment commissioning, business continuity and critical-utilities resilience planning.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role supporting a production site and its future ramp-up.
• Safety-focused environment with authority to stop unsafe work and escalate critical risks.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Production, Engineering, EHS, Quality, Facilities and Project teams.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and reasonable workplace accommodation.