Estate Manager - Lead, Improve, and Elevate Our Facilities Function

📍 Location: Kidderminster

💼 Industry: Advanced Engineering / Manufacturing

📈 Level: Experienced Manager

🕒 Start Date: ASAP

💰Salary: Up to £52,000 + excellent bens.

We're looking for a proactive, people-focused Estate Manager to take ownership of site infrastructure, facilities operations, and team leadership across a large industrial environment.

Reporting to the Facilities & Security Manager, you'll ensure the site remains safe, compliant, efficient, and fully aligned with strategic business objectives. This is a role for someone who enjoys driving operational excellence, managing stakeholders, and leading a high-performing team.

🔧 What you'll be responsible for:

• Ensuring the site, infrastructure, and buildings are maintained to protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of all personnel
• Ensuring compliance with all corporate and legislative regulations, including health & safety requirements
• Overseeing all building functions - ensuring seamless functionality of services, utilities, and facilities
• Managing building projects and renovations: installations, refurbishments, upgrades, and new builds
• Responding swiftly to emergencies or urgent issues and coordinating the resolution
• Managing performance of both in-house teams and service partners against SLAs
• Leading, developing, and motivating team members to deliver high standards of performance
• Building and managing relationships with stakeholders and internal customers
• Developing strategies to improve efficiency, optimise service delivery, and reduce costs
• Leading change initiatives while minimising disruption to core operations
• Ensuring all activities align with wider organisational strategy and site priorities
• Workforce planning and resource development aligned with business needs
• Supporting training, development, and succession planning within the team
• Performing any reasonable additional duties to support smooth operations

🎓 What you'll bring:

Essential Qualifications:

• HNC or HND in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Modern apprenticeship advantageous but not essential

Desirable Qualifications:

• IOSH
• Green or Black Belt certification (Lean / Six Sigma)

🛠️ Experience we're looking for:

Essential:

• Proven Facilities Management experience within an industrial or manufacturing environment
• Experience using CAFM systems
• Experience managing both hard and soft FM service providers

Desirable:

• Knowledge of continuous improvement tools (Kaizen, Lean Six Sigma, RCA)
• Understanding of building processes and construction principles
• Knowledge of compliance and relevant legislation

👤 You'll thrive in this role if you:

• Are a confident problem solver and troubleshooting comes naturally
• Have strong project or programme management capabilities
• Communicate clearly and professionally, both verbally and in writing
• Are highly organised and hands-on
• Are comfortable using digital systems and FM tools

🚀 Why this role matters:

You'll be at the heart of site operations - leading people, shaping standards, driving improvements, and ensuring the environment is safe, compliant, and operating at its best.

If you're ready to take ownership, lead teams, and make a meaningful impact in a dynamic engineering environment, we'd love to hear from you.

📩 Apply now or message me for a confidential conversation.