Facilities Manager

Facilities Manager

Salary – 55,000 – 62,000 plus call out allowance

Location – Cambridge

We are working with a reputable and long–established organisation in the Cambridgeshire area seeking a Facilities Manager to provide operational leadership across a technically complex estate. This role offers the opportunity to manage engineering services, infrastructure maintenance, and compliance within a busy and high–performing environment.

• Provide senior operational leadership across engineering and facilities functions, ensuring continuity of service and stepping in for senior management when required.
• Manage mechanical, electrical, building fabric, and civil infrastructure maintenance activities, including roads, drainage, and associated estate assets.
• Direct both internal engineering teams and external service providers, ensuring planned, reactive, and project works are delivered safely, efficiently, and to agreed performance standards.
• Take responsibility for compliance across all statutory, environmental, and health and safety obligations relating to building services and infrastructure.
• Oversee the performance and development of the maintenance planning system, ensuring preventative schedules, corrective works, and asset records are effectively managed.
• Contribute to financial oversight by monitoring budgets, managing expenditure, supporting procurement exercises, and reviewing contractor performance against KPIs.
• Support business resilience by contributing to continuity planning and coordinating engineering responses during operational incidents or service disruptions.

• Educated to degree level in an engineering or construction–related discipline, with a recognised Health & Safety qualification such as NEBOSH (or equivalent).
• Strong background in facilities or estates engineering within a complex operational environment, with hands–on maintenance frameworks.
• Demonstrable experience coordinating both directly employed engineers and specialist contractors, including tendering, contract management, and supplier liaison.
• Sound commercial awareness with experience managing operational and capital budgets, cost forecasting, and financial reporting.
• Comprehensive understanding of mechanical and electrical systems, building fabric maintenance, and infrastructure services, alongside relevant statutory compliance requirements.
• Confident user of CAFM or asset management platforms, Building Management Systems, and standard business software, with strong organisational capability.

Should this position be of interest, please apply or call Duke on (phone number removed) for more information.