Technical Facilities Manager

Technical Facilities Manager Overview

We are excited to announce an opportunity for a Technical Facilities Manager in a permanent role located in Severn Beach, Bristol. This is a chance to lead a cutting‑edge technical site from the ground up, overseeing specialised environments such as Clean rooms, Engineering Labs, Manufacturing areas, and critical infrastructure. You will be responsible for managing our outsourced service partners while also developing our internal Facilities Team.

Your leadership will be crucial in ensuring the site runs at peak performance by emphasising safety, operational excellence, and cost management, and by fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Date: 13 May 2026

Location:

Bristol, GB, BS35 4GG

Job Function:
Technical

Business Unit:
Plasma Technology

• Site Operations and Technical Infrastructure - accountability for engineering integrity:
• Provide technical leadership across all mechanical, electrical, controls, and life safety systems
• Set engineering standards aligned to statutory compliance, manufacturer guidance, and industry best practice.
• Act as the technical authority for safe systems of work, isolation management, switching protocols, and engineering change control
• Ensure engineering teams operate within clearly defined authorisation structures, with formal competency frameworks and documented evidence of appointment
• Oversee technical risk assessments and ensure that maintenance and operational activity does not compromise safety, resilience or compliance
• Own the day‑to‑day management of all building services and technical systems, including HVAC, cleanroom environments, gas systems, water systems and electrical infrastructure
• Ensure uptime, reliability and performance of critical systems that support manufacturing and R&D activities
• Develop and implement planned preventative maintenance (PPM) strategies. Drive structured reliability‑centred and condition‑based maintenance approaches to reduce failure risk and unplanned downtime.
• Oversee reactive and emergency works with clear prioritisation based on safety risk and business impact
• Ensure CAFM systems accurately reflect asset criticality, redundancy strategy, and maintenance history
• Ensure resilience of critical infrastructure, including HV/LV distribution, UPS, generators, chillers, boilers, clean utilities, BMS, and life safety systems.
• Oversee redundancy strategies (N+1, 2N, etc.) and ensure testing regimes validate system resilience
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for technical failures. Ensure structured post‑incident reviews, lessons learned implementation, and risk register updates
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, sustainability and cost‑effectiveness without compromising safety and performance
• Cleanroom and Specialist Environments – uptime compliance and resilience
• Maintain Cleanroom performance to required classifications and standards
• Oversee environmental monitoring, contamination control and compliance with relevant ISO cleanroom standards
• Work closely with Engineering, Innovation and Operations to ensure their lab requirements are met
• Partner, Contractor and Supplier Management
• Manage outsourced facilities service providers, for example, Maintenance, Security, Waste and Cleaning.
• Establish and manage SLAs, KPIs and performance reviews
• Ensure all parties operate safely and in line with site procedures and permit systems
• Drive value and performance from supplier relationships.
• Asset Management, Lifecycle Planning and Budgets
• Develop and manage the Facilities budget
• Support capital investment planning and business cases for infrastructure upgrades
• Maintain accurate asset data reflecting condition, criticality, redundancy, and remaining useful life
• Align lifecycle modelling with business continuity planning, ensuring critical plant replacement is strategically sequenced to avoid operational disruption.
• Health, Safety and Compliance
• Work collaboratively with the site SHE Manager to ensure adherence to UK legislation, including EaWR, PUWER, LOLER, PSSR, COSHH, DSEAR, HSG
  274/ACoP L8, and Fire Safety legislation
• Own facilities‑related risk assessments, permits to work and safe…