Overview
Head of Facilities – Best Food Logistics
Location: Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 4XJ
Shift Hours: 40 hrs per week (Monday to Friday 09:00am – 17:30pm)
Salary: Competitive
At Best Food Logistics, our people are our greatest asset. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and investing in the wellbeing, development, and success of our colleagues. Operating across 3 Distribution Centres and 3 out-base locations, we provide nationwide coverage to some of the UK’s leading hospitality and QSR brands, including KFC, Burger King, Pret A Manger, and Nando’s.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced National Facilities Manager to join our senior leadership team. Reporting to the Head of Operations, you will take ownership of facilities management, engineering services, and statutory compliance across our six UK sites. This role is critical to ensuring our large multi-temperature distribution network operates safely, efficiently, and in full compliance with all regulatory requirements.
The role requires regular travel across all locations and offers flexibility to be based at any of our three main distribution centres.
This role is known internally as National Facilities Manager.
- Leading all facilities and engineering services across six UK locations, ensuring all sites remain safe, compliant, and operational through a team of managers and engineers.
- Managing critical building infrastructure including refrigeration, HVAC, electrical systems, utilities, fire systems, compressors, boilers, and ventilation.
- Ensuring the effective operation of large multi-temperature distribution facilities, supporting chilled, frozen, and ambient environments.
- Delivering planned preventative maintenance programmes and asset lifecycle management.
- Managing contractors, service providers, tenders, and service level agreements.
- Ensuring compliance with all statutory, regulatory, and health & safety requirements.
- Managing facilities budgets, prioritisation current and future CapEx and OpEx expenditure and building budgets alongside the senior teams.
- Identifying and delivering site improvement and engineering projects aligned to business objectives and priorities.
- Leading and developing the site facilities teams while promoting a strong safety culture.
- Proven experience in a senior Facilities, Engineering, or Site Services leadership role within large operating FMCG, logistics, food distribution, or manufacturing sites.
- Strong engineering background with experience managing large multi-temperature sites.
- Significant experience of HVAC engineering and industrial refrigeration systems, including ammonia and CO₂ plant.
- Experience managing multiple sites, contractors, and engineering service providers.
- Strong knowledge of statutory compliance, health & safety legislation, and facilities-related regulations including CDM Regs, Building regs, PEWER, LOLER, LEV, Fire Safety, HSE Compliance, and Pressure Systems Safety Regulations.
- Experience managing operational and capital budgets.
- IOSH, NEBOSH, or equivalent health & safety qualification.
- Degree qualification in Facilities Management, Engineering, Building Services, or equivalent.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and project management skills.
- Experience using CMMS and maintenance management systems.
- Align the sites operations with our business objectives on Carbon reduction, energy efficiency, waste management, Site electrification and EV charging infrastructure.
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