Job Description

Who are Danish Crown?
We are a food company owned by Danish farmers, supplying high-quality food to customers and consumers worldwide. From butchers to business developers, we are more than 26,000 colleagues.
Why come to Danish Crown? - Here are a few reasons for you to think about.

• An amazing 28 days' holiday plus bank holidays - that's 36 days holiday a year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Enhanced company sick pay
• Matched company pension scheme
• Heavily discounted meat is available to all staff through the staff shop.
• Well-being programmes, with free optional health care cash plans to cover your everyday healthcare costs and which offer a wide range of digital and virtual wellbeing tools to support both your health and the people you care about.
• Free Employee Assistance Programme for all colleagues and their families
• Free parking
• Free tea and coffee on all sites

Development opportunities for those who would like to progress in a global business
Area of responsibility
As Facilities Manager, you will have oversight of the physical environment, ensuring facilities are safe, compliant, and efficient for operations. This includes managing building and equipment maintenance, enforcing health and safety regulations, implementing cost-saving strategies, and coordinating with employees and external vendors for both hard and soft services. A key focus is maintaining equipment to minimise downtime and ensuring the facility meets strict industry standards for food safety and hygiene. Leading a small team, you'll be tasked with ensuring that our facilities are aligned with business requirements and enable continuity of operation and compliance with requirements.
Responsibilities;

• Develop and implement maintenance strategies for buildings and equipment, including preventative maintenance to minimise downtime, and oversee repairs. Run routine maintenance inspections and support maintenance and installation work as needed. Coordinate refurbishments and renovations.

• Plan and manage work with external contractors for maintenance, repairs, and other services. Negotiate and procure the best deals with outside contractors and suppliers in line with financial policies and procedures, including preparing documents to put out tenders for contracts.

• Prepare and manage budgets for facilities operations, identify cost-saving opportunities, and ensure efficient resource allocation.

• Implement strategies to improve productivity and efficiency within the facility, such as optimising space or ensuring services are functional and reliable.

• Manage cleaning, catering, reception, waste management, archiving, security and grounds maintenance.

• Monitor and optimise energy usage within facilities to reduce costs and support sustainability efforts.

• Identifying and managing facility-related risks to ensure business continuity. Responding quickly to emergencies that arise in workplaces and dealing with them appropriately to avoid impact on production

• Supporting audits and inspections of operations by third parties.

• Working with key stakeholders to identify, communicate, agree and implement opportunities for cost savings and business improvements.

• Ensure statutory compliance through testing and certification

• Monitor interior and exterior areas of building for cleanliness and general conservation

• Comply with all health and safety policies and procedures

• Ensure accurate data and key information is up to date and readily available for all servicing and maintenance contracts.

• Lead, develop and motivate a small team

Requirements;

• Experience working in a related Facilities Management role gained within a manufacturing or food production environment

• Strong background in facilities compliance and safe systems of work

• Experience of contract Management and negotiation in the management of third-party suppliers.

• Experience in Stakeholder Management and acting as a liaison with external parties.

• IWFM Level 4 Diploma in Facilities Management or equivalent

• Health and Safety experience and familiar with COSHH

• Knowledge of Statutory Compliance of building regulations

• Demonstrable commercial and financial awareness and experience of controlling costs within a budget.

• Strong communication skills, able to articulate complex technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to identify and implement process improvements.

• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning.

• Experience of managing, leading and developing individuals/teams

• Computer literate

• Experience managing catering services is desirable.

All employees are expected to operate in line with our Leadership principles:
Totality: We always put the overall interests of the company first, sacrifice our own targets for the greater good, and actively resist silo culture.
Talent: We always select the strongest team, prioritize diversity, and dare to hire people who are more skilled than we are.
Ambition: We set ambitious targets and do not get excited about easily achieved green numbers, and we dare to "lean out" in the pursuit of better results.
Trust: We fight every day against the "zero-mistake culture" and accept that mistakes are part of our professional and personal development journey.
Followership: We strive daily to create followership from our employed colleagues and act as role models by living out our values and leadership principles.
As a leader you will:

• Creates a sense of common direction and purpose, where everyone has a common commitment towards, and proactively work towards, the same overall goals.

• Identify, cultivate, reward and retain talent, with the right capabilities, and who continuously push our organisation and ourselves to develop and achieve even more.

• Drives continuous improvement, both individually and organizationally, motivating employees to think big, lean out and set ambitious stretch goals.

• Creates an open and inclusive culture where employees feel comfortable and safe - even when challenging themselves in their pursuit of high performance and when sharing their ideas, view-points and innovative thinking.

• Instil a close and collaborative work culture, where leaders support, inspire, enable, and engage their team - fostering a proactive and collaborative work culture.

Skills Required