Facilities Site Manager

at  Ceres Power Limited

WHY CERES:

Ceres is leading the way in clean energy innovation, pioneering advancements in electrolysis for green hydrogen production and fuel cells for future power solutions. With our dynamic licensing model, we’ve built powerful partnerships with major multinational companies like Bosch, Doosan, Shell, and Weichai and our solid oxide platform is transforming energy systems, delivering high-efficiency green hydrogen to decarbonise some of the most emissions-heavy industries including steelmaking, and future fuels.
At Ceres, we foster a workplace driven by passion and purpose. We support our team to think ambitiously, collaborate creatively and confront complex challenges directly. Innovation is at the core of who we are, and we strive to push the boundaries of whats possible with technology.

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 KPIs 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 out of usual of usual working hours.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 KPIs including equipment availability, repair time, TPMs on time etc
• Complete daily checks, review and maintain records
• Monitor and improve plant reliability and plant performance

The role holder will manage the Horsham site, lead the facilities team and take 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. In addition to ensuring 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. The role holder will also be required to manage the contractors for repairs, maintenance, and production support you will also ensure service level agreements match the performance required within KPIs