Technical Facilities Manager

This role combines technical safety and engineering accountability with facilities management responsibilities in a high-level, complex, and critical environment:

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 SLA’s, KPI’s 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, HSG274/ACoP L8, and Fire Safety legislation

Own facilities-related risk assessments, permits to work and safe systems of work

Ensure compliance with statutory inspections and regulatory requirements (e.g. electrical, mechanical, pressure systems, water hygiene, fire safety, F-Gas, and specialist plant)

Maintain documented contingency and emergency response plans

Support audits (internal, external, customer) and always ensure readiness.

Team Leadership

Develop and lead your internal Facilities Team

Set clear objectives, performance standards and development plans

Foster a proactive, safety-first and service-oriented culture.

Education / Qualifications:

Desirable – membership of a relevant professional body i.e. IWFM, CIBSE.

Desirable - Degree in Engineering, Facilities Management or related field.

Proven experience in facilities management within a technical environment (e.g. semiconductor, pharmaceutical, advanced manufacturing)

Strong understanding of critical building systems

Experience managing cleanroom or similar controlled environments

Demonstrated experience managing contractors and service providers

Strong knowledge of UK health and safety and compliance requirements

Experience leading and developing teams

Knowledge of sustainability and energy management practices.

At Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology, we provide tools for the engineering of micro- and nano-structures, with customers using our process solutions to research and produce materials and semiconductors vital for everything from medical devices and diagnostics to electric cars and quantum computers.