Facilities Manager - Stonehenge

English Heritage; Kirby-le-Soken; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Matched pension contributions up to 10

Flexible hours

Career progression in heritage sector

Apprenticeship opportunities

Subscriptions to professional bodies

Free site access for you and up to six

Shop & cafe discounts 25%

Enhanced parental leave

Options to buy additional leave

Inclusive working atmosphere

Access to live events

Job summary

English Heritage is seeking a Facilities Manager for Stonehenge to lead the on-site Estates team. The role involves managing maintenance across buildings, services and infrastructure, and coordinating with contractors to ensure safety, compliance and operational readiness for a major visitor site.

You will plan maintenance programmes, oversee budgets, and provide input to capital projects, while supporting out-of-hours operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in facilities, building services, or maintenance management within a complex operational environment.
• Experience managing planned, preventive and reactive maintenance contracts.
• Strong contractor and supplier management, monitoring quality, cost and compliance.
• Experience leading a facilities or technical team.
• Knowledge of electrical, mechanical and building systems and statutory health and safety.
• Budget management and value-for-money delivery.
• Client-side input to capital projects and handover.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Full UK driving licence and ability to travel.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Stonehenge Facilities team and manage contractors.
• Plan and prioritise maintenance, monitor delivery and compliance.
• Develop and deliver maintenance programmes; manage contracts and budgets.
• Provide input to capital investment projects and handover.
• Ensure buildings and systems are safe, reliable and operational.
• Support day-to-day visitor operation.

Skills

Facilities management

Contract management

Budget management

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Health & safety

Education

HNC/HND in building, engineering or FM

IWFM/CIOB membership

Tools

BMS systems

Job description

About The Role

We are looking for a Facilities Manager to join our Estates team at Stonehenge.

This is a full-time, permanent role working 36 hours per week. Based at Stonehenge, you will play a key role in ensuring the Visitor Centre and associated facilities are safe, compliant, well maintained and able to support the operation of one of English Heritage’s most significant visitor sites.

We offer flexible working arrangements where the role allows.

About the role

Stonehenge combines an internationally important historic landscape and busy visitor attraction with a modern Visitor Centre incorporating complex building services and infrastructure.

As Facilities Manager, you will lead the Stonehenge Facilities team and manage specialist contractors to deliver planned, preventative and reactive maintenance across the site and wider landscape. You will help ensure buildings, services and infrastructure remain safe, compliant, reliable and operational while supporting the day-to-day needs of the visitor operation.

Working closely with colleagues across Estates and the wider Stonehenge team, you will plan and prioritise maintenance, manage contractors and delegated budgets, and support the development and delivery of effective maintenance programmes. You will manage maintenance contracts and works, monitoring delivery, compliance, quality, cost and performance.

You will also provide client-side technical input to capital investment and improvement projects, supporting their delivery and handover and helping to ensure new and refurbished buildings and systems can be effectively operated and maintained.

The role covers a varied range of building services and infrastructure, including electrical installations, Building Management Systems, renewable energy systems, ground source heat pumps, wastewater treatment, vacuum toilet systems and visitor interpretation equipment.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Experience in facilities, building services, property or maintenance management within a complex operational environment.
• Experience managing planned, preventative and reactive maintenance, including the administration of maintenance contracts and contractor performance.
• Strong contractor and supplier management skills, including monitoring quality, cost, compliance and performance.
• Experience leading and developing a facilities, maintenance or technical team.
• Good practical knowledge of mechanical, electrical and building systems, together with relevant statutory compliance and health and safety requirements.
• Experience managing budgets, planning and prioritising works and delivering value for money.
• Experience providing client-side technical input to significant capital, maintenance or improvement projects, including project delivery and handover.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively with operational, technical and project colleagues.
• A relevant HNC/HND-level building, engineering or facilities management qualification, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Relevant professional membership, or working towards membership, such as IWFM, CIOB or equivalent.
• The ability to travel as required to support the operational needs of the role, including occasional overnight stays. A full UK driving licence would be advantageous.

This is an opportunity to take responsibility for facilities at a unique and internationally significant site, combining modern building systems and infrastructure with the operational demands of a busy visitor attraction and historic landscape.

The role is based at Stonehenge and includes supporting appropriate out-of-hours arrangements and occasional out-of-hours working to meet operational requirements. Travel to other sites, including some in remote locations, and occasional overnight stays may also be required.

We offer flexible working arrangements where the role allows. This role can be based at Stonehenge and may be worked on a home/hybrid/site-based pattern. You will be required to attend Stonehenge at least 4 x days per week.

About English Heritage

Heritage is for everybody, and we are here for heritage.

Heritage lives in places and people, memories and stories, artefacts and traditions. It can connect us all to the past, and to each other. It can make us happier, strengthen every community, and help shape society for the better. Everybody should be able to enjoy the benefits it brings.

That’s why, as a charity, we care for over a million objects and hundreds of historic sites in every part of England, from international icons to local treasures. And it’s why we open them up, share their stories and find new ways for everybody to enjoy, learn, play and create.

The Benefits

• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, pro rata, rising to 28 days after 3 years
• Matched pension contributions up to 10%
• Flexible hours
• The opportunity to progress your career within the heritage sector
• Apprenticeship opportunities
• Subscriptions to professional bodies
• Free access to all English Heritage sites for you and up to six friends and family members
• 25% discount in our shops and cafes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave
• Options to buy additional leave
• An inclusive working atmosphere everybody is supported from all backgrounds, religions and with different needs
• Opportunities to go to some of our great live music and history events

Find out more about us and what we do: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/ You can also meet some of our people and hear about why they enjoy working with us: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/our-people/careers-with-us/

Everybody’s welcome at English Heritage

Forget the stereotypes. It takes thousands of people from every background to care for England’s heritage and open it up for everybody to enjoy. We’re looking for every type of person with every kind of skill and experience, and we’re committed to making sure that English Heritage is an equitable, diverse and inclusive place to work. You can connect with others through our EDI networks as a member or ally. These include Ethnic Diversity, Faith & Belief, Social Equity, LGBTQ+, Neurodivergence, Age, Disability and Gender Health and Wellbeing.

We take wellbeing seriously. We are committed to ensuring everyone feels safe at work and can carry out their role. To support this, we have a network of Mental Health First aiders, regular information and awareness events, unlimited access to an Employee Assistance Programme and work with our people to implement reasonable adjustments.