Facilities Lead - Eastbourne, United Kingdom - Edwards Ltd

Edwards Ltd

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Eastbourne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Facilities Lead:

Functional area: Administration
Country: UK
United Kingdom
City: eastbourne
Company name: Edwards Ltd
Date of posting: Oct 18, 2023Our solutions are a key part of most industries electronics, medical research, renewable energy, food production, infrastructure and many more. Working with us means working with the latest technologies and groundbreaking, sustainable innovations.

Join us on our journey for a better tomorrow.

To manage and maintain the site facilities and plant ensuring a safe, cost effective and legally compliant working environment for all staff and activities that are based there.

To lead the team of facilities staff to maintain existing plant and facilities and to identify, justify and over-see specific site improvement projects as required and appropriate.

Main Responsibilities

The Eastbourne Product Company is the centre of excellence for electronics design and manufacture within the Group. Staffing is currently split equally between Operations and New Product Engineering. The design staff are supported by EMC, test and environmental labs. The manufacturing operation requires equipment reliability to be maintained at a high level.

The role of the Facilities Lead includes:

Continuous awareness of the site requirements, status, maintenance and utilities
Timely and appropriate reaction to breakdowns, repairs and changing needs of the business
Planning and execution of routine tasks and planned maintenance.
Planning justification and implementation of improvement projects
Interaction with external agencies as required to anticipate, plan, and react to requirements that maintain the site legal and compliance status with local authority, and SHE needs
Identification and use of external sources of relevant knowledge, excellence and associated services, including industry benchmarks, key suppliers, trends etc.
Identification and selection of relevant strategies, methods and suppliers to enable site operation
Cost awareness and improvements in the fields of interest for site operation
To ensure that all site facilities, plant and infrastructure remain compliant with all relevant legislation ensuring a safe working environment for all.
To keep up to date with Legislation and ensure that Eastbourne PC complies with latest standards where appropriate.
To ensure corporate safety standards are incorporated into current working practice.
To ensure laboratory environments facilitate business requirements
Ensure all maintenance and project work is carried out to defined safety standards

To lead the maintenance team on site:

Ensure efficient and cost-effective use of resources
both internal and external
Identify key external partners and build working relationships
Plan and implement all routine maintenance activities using Planet FM tool
Review and renegotiate contracts annually including energy, security, waste, catering and cleaning,
Ensure production breakdowns are responded to in a timely and appropriate manner to enable site to meet delivery commitments
Ensure a replacement programme is in place to replace End of life and noneconomic site facilities
To support operations in confirming services specification and installation requirement of new equipment
Front desk and administration to meet site and visitors needs
Carry out annual appraisals and identify development needs for all staff
To ensure all processes and records are correct, up to date and available for audits and inspection
To ensure Planet FM is used to plan all routine maintenance activity and record all breakdown incidents
To ensure all historical service and corrective action records are available for all audits
To ensure historical records are maintained so that recommendations can be made on reliability of all equipment on site
To plan, justify and implement agreed projects
To ensure site is secure and clean and to support environmental issues
To manage and control access to site ensuing a secure environment for all colleagues
To ensure site complies with Company Environmental requirements and assist HSE Manager in implementing these

Cost Management

To ensure all Budget Controls are in place and reviewed regularly in line with company policy
To seek and enact cost reduction opportunities especially around use of energy and provision of external services
To ensure department remains within in agreed budget constraints

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