Senior Facilities Engineer

Senior Facilities Engineer

📍 Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
🕒 Full-Time | Permanent
📅 Monday – Friday
💷 £45,000 (Days) | £50,000 (Mornings & Afternoons Shift Pattern)

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Senior Facilities Engineer to join our growing manufacturing operation in Tewkesbury.

This is a key engineering role responsible for ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of all site facilities, utilities, infrastructure, and building services within a high-reliability manufacturing environment.

Working closely with Production, Engineering, HSE and Quality teams, you will play a critical role in maintaining operational continuity, driving infrastructure improvements, managing contractors, and ensuring statutory compliance across the facility.

This position would suit a hands-on facilities or building services engineer with strong electrical and mechanical knowledge, excellent problem-solving ability, and experience working within manufacturing or industrial environments.

Key Responsibilities

* Lead the maintenance and operation of all site facilities and utility systems including electrical distribution, HVAC, compressed air, chilled water, extraction systems, effluent treatment and process support equipment

* Develop and manage preventative and predictive maintenance schedules to ensure operational reliability and minimise downtime

* Coordinate reactive maintenance activities and conduct fault finding across electrical and mechanical infrastructure systems

* Manage contractors and specialist service providers including inductions, permits to work, RAMS reviews and performance monitoring

* Ensure all statutory inspections, certifications and compliance activities are completed and maintained

* Support infrastructure upgrades, CAPEX projects, equipment installations and factory improvement initiatives

* Drive continuous improvement activities relating to utilities efficiency, energy management and environmental performance

* Maintain accurate maintenance records, compliance documentation and asset registers

* Support ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 compliance requirements and audits

* Promote a strong safety-first culture and ensure all engineering activities comply with health, safety and environmental legislation

* Work collaboratively with Production, Maintenance, Process Engineering and Quality teams to support manufacturing requirements and business objectives

Skills & Experience Required

Essential

* Qualified in Mechanical, Electrical, Facilities or Building Services Engineering

* Proven facilities engineering experience within a manufacturing or industrial environment

* Strong understanding of electrical and mechanical building services and utilities infrastructure

* Experience managing contractors, permits to work and compliance systems

* Experience managing preventative maintenance schedules and infrastructure projects

* Strong fault-finding and problem-solving capability

* Excellent communication and organisational skills with the ability to work cross-functionally

What We Offer

* Monday to Friday working

* Permanent, stable position within a growing specialist manufacturer

* Company pension scheme and on-site parking

* Opportunity to make a real impact within a supportive engineering environment

This job description is not exhaustive, and flexibility will be expected in line with the needs of the business
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed