Facilities Manager

Cellular Origins Ltd.; Cambourne; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

25 days holiday

Employer pension contribution 10% of薪

Private medical insurance foremployees

Enhanced family friendly leave

Life insurance worth 6x salary

Electric car leasing scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Job summary

Cellular Origins Ltd. is seeking a hands-on Facilities Manager to oversee day-to-day operations and long-term planning across two Cambridgeshire sites, including preparing for the new HQ.

You’ll work on-site, coordinate with senior leaders, landlords and contractors, and drive reliability and safety across the estate. In this role you’ll manage maintenance, vendor contracts, budgeting, and compliance with health, safety and environmental standards, while leading the relocation to the new

Qualifications

• Experience as a Facilities Manager or in a similar facilities role.
• Strong practical understanding of health and safety, fire safety and building compliance.
• Experience working with external contractors and service providers, including holding them to account.
• Organisational and communication skills that help you manage competing priorities without losing detail.
• Experience in laboratory, technical or regulated environments would be beneficial, as would involvement in refurbishments, relocations or fit out projects.
• An interest in sustainability and energy management would be a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Run facilities operations across two sites, including planned and reactive maintenance, cleaning, security, waste and general site services.
• Make sure facilities standards are consistent across both locations so people have a reliable experience wherever they are working.
• Own supplier and service contracts, ensuring quality, value and clear accountability.
• Manage the facilities budget with care, balancing cost discipline with safety and reliability.
• Lead our move to our new headquarters, helping plan the relocation, ensuring utilities, access, safety systems and operational processes are ready for occupation.
• Support colleagues through the transition so the move is well organised, well communicated and as smooth as possible.
• Take responsibility for health, safety and compliance in our buildings, ensuring they meet health and safety, fire and environmental requirements.
• Manage audits, inspections and risk assessments, and drive corrective actions through to completion where issues are identified.
• Act as the main point of contact for facilities-related safety matters.
• Improve how our environments work over time, refining policies and procedures, strengthening sustainability and resilience, and supporting future changes to our sites.

Skills

Facilities Mgmt

Health & Safety

Contractor Management

Organisational Skills

Communication Skills

Laboratory Environments

Sustainability Energy

Job description

Job Description

This is a hands‑on role with responsibility for day‑to‑day facilities operations and longer-term planning. You’ll manage facilities across two locations in Cambridgeshire, keeping standards consistent while we continue to grow and move into our new HQ.

You will be joining at a point of transition. We are working to deliver a new headquarters building while running active R&D and manufacturing facilities. That brings variety, responsibility and the opportunity to influence how things are done, rather than simply maintaining a steady state. Your work will be visible and valued because it directly affects safety, productivity and momentum across the business.

What you’ll do

You will spend most of your time on site, talking to people, spotting issues early and making practical improvements. You will also work closely with senior leaders, landlords and contractors, helping guide decisions about our estate so they stay aligned with how the business is growing.

You’ll get to:

• Run facilities operations across two sites, including planned and reactive maintenance, cleaning, security, waste and general site services.
• Make sure facilities standards are consistent across both locations so people have a reliable experience wherever they are working.
• Own supplier and service contracts, ensuring quality, value and clear accountability.
• Manage the facilities budget with care, balancing cost discipline with safety and reliability.
• Lead our move to our new headquarters, helping plan the relocation, ensuring utilities, access, safety systems and operational processes are ready for occupation.
• Support colleagues through the transition so the move is well organised, well communicated and as smooth as possible.
• Take responsibility for health, safety and compliance in our buildings, ensuring they meet health and safety, fire and environmental requirements.
• Manage audits, inspections and risk assessments, and drive corrective actions through to completion where issues are identified.
• Act as the main point of contact for facilities-related safety matters.
• Improve how our environments work over time, refining policies and procedures, strengthening sustainability and resilience, and supporting future changes to our sites.

About you

You will enjoy this role if you like being trusted to make things work and you are comfortable owning the details of how buildings run. You are happy managing more than one site and switching between forward planning and immediate problem solving.

You communicate clearly, whether you are discussing a small issue with a lab user or updating senior leaders on progress with the new HQ. You are practical, proactive and solutions focused, and you prefer being on site, seeing issues first hand and working with people to resolve them.

You’ll bring:

• Experience as a Facilities Manager or in a similar facilities role.
• A strong practical understanding of health and safety, fire safety and building compliance.
• Experience working with external contractors and service providers, including holding them to account.
• Organisational and communication skills that help you manage competing priorities without losing detail.
• Experience in laboratory, technical or regulated environments would be beneficial, as would involvement in refurbishments, relocations or fit out projects. An interest in sustainability and energy management would be a bonus.
• You will thrive here if you like variety, enjoy being close to the work and want your decisions to have a clear, positive impact on the people around you.

Additional Information

Cellular Origins is currently based on the TTP Campus, within purpose‑built sustainable offices, labs and green surroundings, 10 miles south of Cambridge. Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas and collaboration, while providing you the freedom to do your best work.

Our employee benefits include:

• Annual bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary
• Private medical insurance for employees and dependants
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Life insurance worth 6x salary
• Electric car leasing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan