Estate Manager
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Kidderminster
🏢 Estate Manager – Lead, Improve, and Elevate Our Facilities Function 📍 Location: Kidderminster 💼 Industry: Advanced Engineering / Manufacturing 📈 Level: Experienced Manager 🕒 Start Date: ASAP 💰Salary: Up to £52,000 + excellent bens. We’re looking for a proactive, people-focused Estate Manager to take ownership of site infrastructure, facilities operations, and team leadership across a large industrial environment. Reporting to the Facilities & Security Manager, you’ll ensure the site remains safe, compliant, efficient, and fully aligned with strategic business objectives. This is a role for someone who enjoys driving operational excellence, managing stakeholders, and leading a high-performing team. 🔧 What you’ll be responsible for: • Ensuring the site, infrastructure, and buildings are maintained to protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of all personnel, • Ensuring compliance with all corporate and legislative regulations, including health & safety requirements, • Overseeing all building functions — ensuring seamless functionality of services, utilities, and facilities, • Managing building projects and renovations: installations, refurbishments, upgrades, and new builds, • Responding swiftly to emergencies or urgent issues and coordinating the resolution, • Managing performance of both in-house teams and service partners against SLAs, • Leading, developing, and motivating team members to deliver high standards of performance, • Building and managing relationships with stakeholders and internal customers, • Developing strategies to improve efficiency, optimise service delivery, and reduce costs, • Leading change initiatives while minimising disruption to core operations, • Ensuring all activities align with wider organisational strategy and site priorities, • Workforce planning and resource development aligned with business needs, • Supporting training, development, and succession planning within the team, • Performing any reasonable additional duties to support smooth operations 🎓 What you’ll bring: Essential Qualifications: • HNC or HND in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, • Modern apprenticeship advantageous but not essential Desirable Qualifications: • IOSH, • Green or Black Belt certification (Lean / Six Sigma) 🛠️ Experience we’re looking for: Essential: • Proven Facilities Management experience within an industrial or manufacturing environment, • Experience using CAFM systems, • Experience managing both hard and soft FM service providers Desirable: • Knowledge of continuous improvement tools (Kaizen, Lean Six Sigma, RCA), • Understanding of building processes and construction principles, • Knowledge of compliance and relevant legislation 👤 You’ll thrive in this role if you: • Are a confident problem solver and troubleshooting comes naturally, • Have strong project or programme management capabilities, • Communicate clearly and professionally, both verbally and in writing, • Are highly organised and hands-on, • Are comfortable using digital systems and FM tools 🚀 Why this role matters: You’ll be at the heart of site operations — leading people, shaping standards, driving improvements, and ensuring the environment is safe, compliant, and operating at its best. If you’re ready to take ownership, lead teams, and make a meaningful impact in a dynamic engineering environment, we’d love to hear from you. 📩 Apply now or message me for a confidential conversation.