Site Director

Hydrogen Group; Essex; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Hydrogen Group in Essex is seeking a Site Director to lead Facilities, EHS and Security on a day-to-day basis. You will drive performance of hard and soft FM, ensure regulatory compliance, and embed a strong safety culture across the site.

Reporting to the Site Leadership Team, you will manage contracts, oversee capital projects, and build capability within teams already in post. Experience in regulated manufacturing and contractor-heavy environments is essential.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership across hard and soft FM and EHS in manufacturing or regulated environment.
• Able to lift standards in teams where managers are already in post.
• Strong working knowledge of UK health and safety and facilities compliance.
• Experience in contractor-heavy environments and outsourced FM models.

Responsibilities

• Hard FM: engineering, utilities and infrastructure, including planned maintenance, statutory inspections and asset lifecycle planning.
• Soft FM: cleaning, catering, waste, reception and grounds, with supplier performance measured and challenged.
• EHS: site strategy, legal and corporate compliance, investigation quality, and visible safety leadership, including Stop-Work Authority.
• Security: protect people, assets and information in collaboration with local and UK-based teams.
• Business continuity and emergency response: plans tested and understood by staff.
• Facilities and EHS capital projects, management of change, and budgets across OpEx and CapEx.

Skills

Senior leadership

FM leadership

EHS leadership

Contractor management

Regulated environment

Job description

Site Director (Facilities, EHS and Security)

Essex | Permanent |

We’re partnering with a regulated manufacturing business that is hiring a Site Director to take charge of how its site runs day to day: the buildings and plant, the services that keep people working, and the safety culture that sits underneath both.

This is a hands‑on role at Site Leadership Team level. You’ll lead through functional managers who are already in post, so the job is to raise standards, build capability, and make accountability stick where it’s currently uneven.

What you’ll own

• Hard FM: engineering, utilities and infrastructure, including planned maintenance, statutory inspections and asset lifecycle planning
• Soft FM: cleaning, catering, waste, reception and grounds, with supplier performance measured and challenged
• EHS: site strategy, legal and corporate compliance, investigation quality, and visible safety leadership, including Stop-Work Authority
• Security: working with local and UK‑based teams to protect people, assets and information
• Business continuity and emergency response: plans that are tested, scenario‑based and understood by the people who would use them
• Facilities and EHS capital projects, management of change, and budgets across OpEx and CapEx

What we’re looking for

• Senior leadership across hard and soft FM and EHS in manufacturing or another regulated environment
• A record of lifting standards in teams where managers are already in post
• Strong working knowledge of UK health and safety and facilities compliance
• Experience in contractor‑heavy environments and outsourced FM models
• The credibility to hold your own at Site Leadership Team level

Security and business continuity experience, ISO or similar frameworks, and a high‑reliability background are helpful but not essential.