Facilities Manager
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Job Summary
This is a hands-on role with responsibility for day-to-day facilities operations and longer-term planning. Youll manage facilities across two locations in Cambridgeshire keeping standards consistent while we continue to grow and move into our new HQ.
You will be joining at a point of transition. We are working to deliver a new headquarters building while running active R&D and manufacturing facilities. That brings variety responsibility and the opportunity to influence how things are done rather than simply maintaining a steady state. Your work will be visible and valued because it directly affects safety productivity and momentum across the business.
What youll do
You will spend most of your time on site talking to people spotting issues early and making practical improvements. You will also work closely with senior leaders landlords and contractors helping guide decisions about our estate so they stay aligned with how the business is growing.
Youll get to:
- Run facilities operations across two sites including planned and reactive maintenance cleaning security waste and general site services.
- Make sure facilities standards are consistent across both locations so people have a reliable experience wherever they are working.
- Own supplier and service contracts ensuring quality value and clear accountability.
- Manage the facilities budget with care balancing cost discipline with safety and reliability.
- Lead our move to our new headquarters helping plan the relocation coordinating fit out and commissioning managing snagging and handover and ensuring utilities access safety systems and operational processes are ready for occupation.
- Support colleagues through the transition so the move is well organised well communicated and as smooth as possible.
- Take responsibility for health safety and compliance in our buildings ensuring they meet health and safety fire and environmental requirements.
- Manage audits inspections and risk assessments and drive corrective actions through to completion where issues are identified.
- Act as the main point of contact for facilities-related safety matters.
- Improve how our environments work over time refining policies and procedures strengthening sustainability and resilience and supporting future changes to our sites.
Qualifications :
You will enjoy this role if you like being trusted to make things work and you are comfortable owning the details of how buildings run. You are happy managing more than one site and switching between forward planning and immediate problem solving.
You communicate clearly whether you are discussing a small issue with a lab user or updating senior leaders on progress with the new HQ. You are practical proactive and solutions focused and you prefer being on site seeing issues first hand and working with people to resolve them.
Youll bring:
- Experience as a Facilities Manager or in a similar facilities role.
- A strong practical understanding of health and safety fire safety and building compliance.
- Experience working with external contractors and service providers including holding them to account.
- Organisational and communication skills that help you manage competing priorities without losing detail.
- Experience in laboratory technical or regulated environments would be beneficial as would involvement in refurbishments relocations or fit out projects. An interest in sustainability and energy management would be a bonus.
- You will thrive here if you like variety enjoy being close to the work and want your decisions to have a clear positive impact on the people around you.
Additional Information :
Benefits
Cellular Origins is based on the TTP Campus within purpose-built sustainable offices labs and green surroundings 10 miles south of Cambridge.
Our employee benefits include:
- Annual bonus
- 25 days holiday
- Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary
- Free lunch and all-day refreshments
- Private medical insurance for employees and dependants
- Enhanced family friendly leave
- Life insurance worth 6x salary
- Electric car leasing scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Activities and community that supports healthy activities that bring colleagues together; whether its lunchtime squash or football Zumba or our own rock band. Colleagues initiate new clubs and outings whenever they feel theres something missing!
- Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships.
Apply
If you are keen to take ownership of facilities that support life-changing scientific work we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join a company where facilities are treated as part of the system not just the background and help us create environments that let our teams do their best work.
Every application will be reviewed and will receive a response.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Computer Skills
- Management Experience
- Facilities Management
- HVAC
- CMMS
- Ammonia Refrigeration
- HVAC/R
- Maintenance Management
- OSHA
- Maintenance
- Budgeting
- Supervising Experience
About Company
Cell therapies have shown the ability to cure the incurable and yet we cannot get them to patients because of an inability to scale manufacturing. The Cellular Origins team is transforming patient access to cell therapies by addressing the challenges associated with scalable, cost-eff ... View more
