# Senior Facilities Manager

**Company**: McLaren Automotive
**Location**: Bicester
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Facilities & Maintenance
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854

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## Description

As the senior facilities manager for McLaren Automotive's Midlands real estate portfolio, you will lead a team to own and manage multiple properties across the company's Midlands operations.

Working with multiple stakeholders, service vendors, and partners, you will deliver outstanding support and service to a growing business to enable and protect the operational requirements of the business.

Your day-to-day work will be varied and challenging, delivering consistent processes, services, and strategies across the real estate portfolio to support company culture and growth.

### Responsibilities

- Provide strategic leadership and direction for the Midlands portfolio, encompassing various facilities, and lead a team of coordinators.

- Develop and implement comprehensive facility management strategies that align with organisational objectives and industry best practices.

- Liaise with senior management to inform and advise on all matters relating to the physical operation and condition of the estate portfolio.

- Collaborate closely with the compliance team and external regulatory bodies to ensure that all facilities across the UK estate adhere to health, safety, and environmental standards, maintaining a safe, compliant, and regulated working environment for employees and visitors.

- Liaise with HoD and key stakeholders to ensure high-quality services are delivered efficiently and cost-effectively.

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across all facilities, promoting innovation and sustainable practices.

- Serve as the primary point of contact for escalated issues relating to facility operations, maintenance, and team management.

- Foster a culture of excellence and collaboration within the facilities management team, providing mentorship and professional development opportunities.

- Ensure emergency preparedness and crisis management plans are in place and regularly reviewed across all sites.

- Monitor and report on the performance of the facilities management team, setting objectives and key performance indicators to assess and improve service delivery.

- Maintain a flexible work schedule to oversee operations across various locations and be available for emergency response as needed.

### Requirements

- Experienced in a leadership role in Facilities Management.

- Proven experience in developing Facilities Management functions and teams.

- Strong leadership/people management skills.

- Experience in managing a distributed property portfolio.

- Experience working in facilities or estate management for a minimum of 10 years.

- An engineering background with a sound understanding of M&E, Critical infrastructure, contract management, PPMs, and local authority engagement.

- Demonstrable experience managing third parties and contract services.

- Willing to work flexibly, in person, across each McLaren site.

- A proactive self-starter who takes initiative in solving complex and high-priority issues.

- Hold a valid driving licence.

### Benefits

- Structured career development framework.

- 25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday.

- Enhanced company pension scheme.

- Discretionary annual bonus award.

- Private medical insurance and health cash plan.

- Life assurance benefit.

- Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years' service.

- Benefits that can be adapted to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

- Generous parental leave policies.

- A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial and mortgage advice.

## Skills

### Required
- Facilities Management
- Leadership
- Team Management
- Engineering
- M&E
- Contract Management
- PPMs
- Local Authority Engagement

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