Facilities & Engineering Manager (GMP)

Location: Bristol, UK; onsite across two Bristol sites

Salary: £44,600–£71,480 per year

Company

hirify.global enables cutting-edge research in life sciences and clinical diagnostics by providing tools that help researchers treat and prevent disease.

What you will do

• Lead the day-to-day operation, maintenance, and compliance of two Bristol sites, including laboratories, warehouses, offices, cleanrooms, plant rooms, and GMP manufacturing suites.
• Manage equipment, assets, calibration, inspections, preventative maintenance, records, and building fabric upkeep.
• Oversee contractors and service providers, ensuring safe, compliant, and effective delivery of work.
• Coordinate fire safety, emergency preparedness, incident response, access control, alarm response, and facilities on-call coverage.
• Lead and develop the Facilities & Engineering team through objectives, coaching, workforce planning, recruitment, and succession planning.
• Own the departmental CapEx budget and contribute to the UK facilities strategy, including future support for the Oxfordshire office.

Requirements

• More than 5 years of experience leading facilities or engineering teams in a GMP, laboratory, or regulated environment.
• Strong people management, communication, organisational, time management, and project management skills.
• Practical knowledge of health and safety requirements and safe systems of work.
• Ability to prepare audit-ready SOPs, job aids, permits, emergency plans, and other compliance documentation.
• Experience planning and prioritising work across a 3–5 year business horizon.
• Ability to work onsite at the Bristol facilities and participate in the facilities or security on-call rota.

Nice to have

• IOSH or equivalent health and safety qualification, or willingness to work towards one.
• Experience managing contractors or service agreements.
• Awareness of sustainability, environmental controls, or ESG principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive wages and benefits for employees and their families.
• Retirement programs and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Mentorship, training, development, and promotional opportunities.
• International and diverse working environment with employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and employee events.
• Culture focused on empowerment, innovation, quality, continuous improvement, and environmental responsibility.