Head of Facilities

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About Safran Nacelles Ltd
Safran Nacelles is a worldwide leader in aircraft engine nacelles. Our products and services equip all aircraft types; regional, business, short, medium and long range commercial aircraft. Our expertise covers nacelle design, manufacturing, integration, maintenance and services. We were voted the 28rd best worldwide employer in 2022 by Forbes. Our site in Burnley provides employment to almost 700 people and we are proud to be one of the largest private sector employer in Burnley.

Our Four People Fundamentals underpin life at Safran, and our culture is built on the following principles;

• Promoting diversity and inclusion
• Developing skills and building opportunities
• Creating a trustworthy work place
• Promoting collaboration and mutual support

Why not visit our website for more information on careers at Safran
Careers At a glance | Safran (safran-group.com)

What will I be doing?
Responsible for the site's infrastructure and capital assets availability, replacement and delivery of strategic capital assets plans. This role encompasses capital investment, maintenance of industrial plant and key equipment, maintenance and compliance of all hard and soft services through site Total Facilities Management (TFM) contracts, Security management responsibility with direct reporting lines into SAFRAN corporate security, Responsibility for security management, statutory compliance and facilities related safety topics.

PRINCIPLE ACTIVITIES

o Strategic Capital Delivery
Working closely with the Head of Infrastructure & Low Carbon, the Head of Facilities will be responsible for the delivery of the sites Capital plan, (up to 6million / yr) and where required, will provide support for the development of any business cases relating to capital investment applications.

o Capital Project Management
Responsible for management and delivery of the site's capital and revenue projects (+20 project / yr), leading a team of project engineers and managers to deliver strategic site projects on time, in full to the agreed key deliverables, contractor / supplier management is fundamental to the success of these key site projects

o Industrial Maintenance
Responsibility for leading the maintenance team in the development of maintenance strategies to achieve world class availability levels, use of current maintenance technologies to ensure assets are safe and available when needed but working within the budget constraints set.

o TFM Hard / Soft Management
Overseeing an outsourced hard/soft facilities management service contract (£1.2million value per year), contract scope development and supplier selection with day to day management responsibility, strong focus on compliance and statutory requirements

o Site Security Manger
Responsible for the site security governance looking at risk and vulnerability and developing the site's security strategy in line with the SAFRAN corporate security team.

Travel specifictity

Additional description
Exceptional Company Benefits
• Competitive salary
• 37 hour working week over 4.5 days with a 1pm finish on Friday
• Flexi-time scheme that allows you to take two half days or one full day off per month
• 33 days annual leave [inclusive of bank holidays]
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days of annual leave
• 10% employer pension contribution
• 5% employee contribution with the option to increase this voluntarily through tax efficient salary exchange
• 4 x life insurance benefit as a member of the pension scheme
• Non-contributory BUPA private medical insurance plan
• Group income protection scheme paying 50% of your salary in the event that you are too ill to work
• Support for your continuous professional development and career development
• Enhanced sickness, maternity, adoption and paternity leave
• Excellent on-site catering facilities offering subsidised hot and cold breakfast and lunch
• Option to purchase Safran shares with additional free shares from the Company
• Corporate membership at Crow Wood Hotel & Spa to use the fitness suite, classes, pool and sauna, offering 54% discount as a gold member
• Wellbeing support through our employee assistance programme offering mental health support through a confidential 24/7 helpline, access to remote GP appointments, medical second opinions and physiotherapy
• Cycles to work scheme
• Discounts on your high street purchases through our benefits platform

Candidate skills & requirements
What do you need from me?
• An experienced Facilities Manager 7 Years experience in 1st tier industrial environment
• Excellent project manager with proven delivery of complex industrial projects
• Engineering Professional BEng or equivalent
• Experience of working in a modern maintenance environment 3yrs
Management of CAPEX with experience of developing and presenting business cases to senior board
• Budget management and forecasting
• Excellent knowledge of statutory law and compliance
• Experience of Hard and Soft services management within a TFM environment
• Capable of leading and developing a large team in a service provider environment
• Capable of working across all levels of the business to gain sponsorship and deliver key objectives
• Security exposure with ability to develop and deploy an improvement strategy
• Quality compliance experience preferably in an Aerospace environment
• Ability to present at all levels and influence and audience
• Crisis management experience based in a facilities infrastructure environment (desirable)

Tools:
• MS Office Suite
• MS Project
• Data logging equipment
• SAP
• AutoCAD skills (desirable)
• Six Sigma Lean practitioner (desirable)

Communication:
• Capable of communicating clearly and concisely
• Able to escalate at the right time and at the right level
• Capable of making decisions
• A good team player
• Able to negotiate well with internal contacts and external suppliers
• An ambassador for the company and able to articulate its position
• Ability to drive the supply chain to ensure delivery against contract objectives

Analysis:
• Capacity to analyse a complex problem, sum it up and find solutions
• Capacity to analyse the information supplied by other departments
• Ability to gauge the importance of drifts and to anticipate the consequences

Attitude & Behaviour:
• Embrace new ideas and opportunities, especially those for digitalisation and low carbon
• Concise
• Communicative
• Proactive
• Autonomous
• Thorough
• Perseverant & resilient
• Accountable

What's my next step?
Please apply by uploading a CV, and if your experience matches what we're looking for, one of our recruitment team will give you a call

Diversity & Inclusion
We want Safran Nacelles to be a workplace where everyone feels valued, can be themselves and know they can reach their full potential.

We embrace and celebrate our differences through various initiatives and support colleagues through a number of staff networks.

We're committed to building a strong, diverse workforce and making Safran Nacelles an inclusive place to work.

Position location

Job location
Europe, UK, England, North West

City (-ies)
Burnley