Facilities Manager

You will be responsible for a small team, ensuring that our sites, infrastructure and services operate safely, compliantly and sustainably, while driving continuous improvement and embedding a strong culture of responsibility and operational excellence. Combining hands-on facilities management with leadership of health and safety frameworks in a highly regulated aerospace manufacturing environment, you will also lead the implementation and maintenance of a UK CAA-approved Safety Management System (SMS).

This is a highly practical, hands-on Facilities Manager role where you will need to be comfortable being visible on site and, where appropriate, supporting with minor maintenance tasks yourself when this is the quickest and most effective way to resolve issues, while ensuring all work is carried out safely and in line with site procedures.

Facilities management and site operations

• Take full ownership of the day to day operation of all site facilities, infrastructure and services
• Manage facilities related contracts and service providers, including cleaning, waste, utilities, security, maintenance and specialist services
• Oversee planned and reactive maintenance of buildings, plant and infrastructure
• Develop, implement and manage annual facilities and maintenance plans, including Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) for production equipment and planned preventative maintenance programmes
• Support facilities projects, refurbishments, layout changes and site improvements to support business growth and operational efficiency
• Manage production support infrastructure and services in close collaboration with Operations and Engineering
• Maintain site security systems and ensure effective 24/7 site security arrangements
• Act as the key point of contact for all facilities issues, coordinating internal teams and external contractors
• Ensure all contractor activities are controlled, compliant and delivered in line with agreed service levels
• Manage the facilities budget, forecasting costs and controlling spend
• Identify and deliver cost reduction opportunities and energy efficiency improvements to reduce running costs and environmental impact
• Continuously review and improve facilities processes and systems to enhance the experience of employees, visitors and contractors
• Respond to urgent facilities issues and site emergencies, ensuring business continuity

Health, Safety and environmental responsibilities

• Support the implementation and ongoing operation of site Health, Safety and Environmental arrangements in line with company policies and regulatory requirements
• Ensure facilities activities, maintenance work and contractors operate in line with safe systems of work and risk assessments
• Support site incident reporting, investigations and corrective actions related to facilities and infrastructure
• Contribute to environmental and sustainability initiatives, including waste reduction and energy management
• Work closely with the HSE and Quality functions to support audits and compliance activities where they relate to facilities and site services

To help Mirus continue our journey of growth, you will bring your expertise within facilities, with a strong operational background in a manufacturing or regulated environment, comfortable managing multiple service providers and site priorities driving operational excellence along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:

• Strong experience managing facilities contracts, suppliers and service providers
• Experience…