Facilities Site Manager

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Why Ceres:

Ceres is a leading developer of clean energy technology, electrolysis for the creation of green hydrogen and fuel cells for power generation. Its licensing model has seen it establish partnerships with some of the world's largest companies, such Bosch, Doosan, Shell and Weichai.

Ceres' solid oxide platform technology supports greater electrification of our energy systems and produces green hydrogen at high-efficiencies as a route to decarbonise emissions-intensive industries such as steelmaking, cement, and future fuels. Ceres is listed on the London Stock Exchange ("LSE") (LSE: CWR) and is classified by the LSE Green Economy Mark, which recognises listed companies that derive more than 50% of their activity from the green economy.

Ceres is an inspiring place to work, and our people care deeply about our purpose, our technology, our partners, and each other. We offer employees the opportunity to collaborate creatively to solve complex problems and challenges, to experiment and innovate and push the boundaries of our technology, within a supportive culture and work environment that allows them to learn, grow, achieve great things and be the very best version of themselves.

Purpose of the role:

The successful candidate will manage the Horsham site and be part of the Facilities team taking ownership of business-critical facilities. Ensuring infrastructure, utilities and facilities are provided reliably and safely to Manufacturing operations at site.

The role will support the delivery of new plant infrastructure and execute CAPEX support plans to deadlines and budgets to ensure minimum disruption when installing new equipment. You would also ensure all compliance for ISO9001,140001 and regulatory requirements are met and maintained as well as develop cost reduction and efficiency improvement plans for all building services including energy saving initiatives. As well as managing and instructing contractors for repairs, maintenance, and production support you will also ensure service level agreements match the performance required within KPI's

Key Accountabilities:

• Maintain facilities at the Horsham site within budget and operational metrics
• Ensure all compliance and regulatory requirements are met and maintained
• Develop cost reduction and efficiency improvement plans for all building services including energy saving initiatives
• Support with delivery of new plant infrastructure for manufacturing scale-up, changes in layout of manufacturing infrastructure. Execute CAPEX support plans to deadlines and budgets to ensure minimum disruption when installing new equipment
• Line management of facilities technicians including workload allocation, target setting, training, and development
• Arrange outsourcing of activities as required to smooth resource requirements and maximise efficiency
• Manage all site related matters and issues of legal compliance for the site
• Manage and instruct contractors for repairs, maintenance, and production support. Ensure contractors service level agreements match performance required for the business and maintain KPI's for key contract services
• Develop and maintain a TPM system for all key services
• Manage the security of all sites as well as all outsourced services
• Be flexible to ensure out of hours are supported and managed effectively
• There will be a requirement to be On Call one week in every four
• Support critical site shutdowns which are planned twice per year OOH
• Knowledge and skills required for the role:
• Manage factory site facilities including all hard and soft services
• Fault finding analytical and root cause analysis
• Ideally Electrical and Mechanical understanding
• Experience with TPM and a KPI driven environment
• Experience of working with HVAC, BMS, clean room environments
• Ideally IoSHH trained, NEBOSH or similar
• Champions a safety culture and always leads by example for safe working
• Clear on business objectives and ensures work is carried out in line with them
• Pro-active, self-starting, open to new ideas and new directions
• Good team player, establishes strong collaborative approach across all stakeholders
• Effective control of the Horsham site in terms of all services and contractor management
• Correct functioning of all facilities in a safe and efficient manner
• Meets KPI's including 'equipment availability', repair time, TPM's on time etc
• Complete daily checks, review and maintain records
• Monitor and improve plant reliability and plant performance

In return we offer a fantastic working environment with hybrid / flexible working and a comprehensive benefits package. This includes Life Insurance, Health Care Cash Plan, 25 Days Annual Leave, Share save Scheme and Pension along with enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption pay and Shared Parental Leave as part of our family friendly policy.