Facilities Manager

Due to the Company’s continued growing success we have a great opportunity available for an experienced Facilities Manager to join our Facilities and Maintenance Team at our new state of the art Distribution Centre in St Helens.

The Facilities Manager is responsible for the running of the building plant services including Balers, Doors and Docks, Air Handling Systems as well as maintaining equipment to a high standard and keeping equipment downtime to an absolute minimum. Alongside the building maintenance elements of the role, the Facilities Manager will also manage the cleaning team onsite, ensuring the DC, offices and surrounding areas hygiene and cleanliness levels are to the highest standards.

As the Facilities Manager you will also be responsible for performing and co-ordinating scheduled mechanical and electrical maintenance activities, ensuring high levels of engineering standards are maintained throughout the site. As part of the daily duties of the Facilities Manager they will also identify and implement improvements in equipment maintainability and reliability.

• Supervise and co-ordinate Building Maintenance Engineers, Technicians, Cleaners and oversee all contractors onsite, ensuring adherence to Company procedures, practices and legislation
• Write and review maintenance procedures for all building maintenance tasks, in line with original equipment manufacturers guidance and in compliance to the Provision & Use of Work Equipment (PUWER) regulations
• Schedule both planned and reactive engineering works via the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Proactively perform and co-ordinate continuous improvement modifications and use continuous improvement tools to optimise production. Adapt maintenance tools and procedures to improve equipment reliability
• Measuring the effectiveness of the Department and its progress towards achieving its goals by the collection of the KPIs through ARMS

• Previous experience in a similar role
• Experience in managing people and service contract negotiations
• A qualified engineer
• IOSH - Managing Safely or equivalent
• Able to read electrical and mechanical drawing
• Excellent at problem solving and fault diagnosis
• Effective communication, negotiating, stakeholder relations
• Flexibility regarding working hours to ensure the job requirements are fulfilled, such as system upgrades

TJ Morris Limited trading as Home Bargains is a privately owned family run discount retailer selling top brands at the lowest possible price on the UK high street.

Having started 45 years ago in Liverpool our customers continue to be at the heart of everything we do and throughout our 580 stores we have over 5 million customers each week.

With plans to increase our store portfolio to 1,000 stores throughout the UK, we are a fast-paced retailer opening 50 stores a year (nearly one every weekend) - and we wouldn't have it any other way!

• £66,150
• 42.50 hours per week over any 5 out of 7 days
• 5.6 weeks paid holiday rising to 6.6 weeks upon 5 years’ service
• Company pension scheme
• Subsidised canteen
• Access to social and sporting events
• 10% store discount

Employee benefits

MyHB employee benefits platform with access to:

• Retail and leisure discounts plus hundreds more
• Free Financial Advice
• Bank your savings into an ISA
• 24/7 confidential counselling and advice line
• Low cost voluntary insured health plans