Reed Facilities are very excited to be looking for an experienced Engineering and Facilities Manager to join a rapidly growing company based in Kent. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to take this company to the next level. You will have 3 direct reports and a team off 13 engineers to manage.

Monday – Friday

8:30am – 5:30pm (will need to be contactable out of hours if needed)

Competitive salary

Duties:

- Operational performance of the Engineering Department & site services.
- Deployment, control and management of engineers, site service team and sub-contractors.
- Assisting where required, maintaining service levels, or offering additional support.
- Liaising with site management and ensure issues are communicated, priorities and actions are understood and updates are provided.
- Ensuring, through the engineering team on site, there is always efficient and effective planned and reactive maintenance and that downtime is minimised.
- Carrying out root cause analysis and providing preventive measures to stop recurrence.
- Leading projects, coordinating staff and sub-contractor’s activities.
- Managing, monitoring and analysing CMMS (ShireSystems) on a regular basis, looking for trends and identifying areas of improvement.
- Ensuring H&S standards are maintained and all related documentation is completed.
- The safety and management of associated contractors and visitors.
- Ensuring that we meet all associated legislative requirement such as LEV, PAT, LOLER, Fixed Installation Testing etc. and for ensuring that remedial work is carried out.
- Attend daily, weekly and monthly management meetings, providing reports where applicable.
- Ensure you work within the restraints of the department’s budgets.
- Maintaining staffing levels.

Ideal requirements:

- Previous experience as an Engineering & Facilities Manager in a manufacturing environment, previous Print industry experience would be an advantage.
- Formal Electrical and Mechanical Qualifications.
- Formal project management qualifications, PRINCE2 qualification (or similar) would be an advantage.
- Excellent Management and Leadership Skills.
- Previous experience working with a CMMS (Computerised maintenance management system) Shiresytems experience would be advantageous.
- Proficient using Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word).
- Good understanding of health, safety and environmental compliance.
- COSSH Health and Safety.
- Full UK driving licence.