Health & Safety/Facilities Manager

Sartorius North America; Royston (GA); On-site; USD 74,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal and Professional Development

Impact from day one onboarding

Welcoming culture

Health & Well-Being

Job summary

Sartorius North America is seeking a Health and Safety/Facilities Manager to lead safety and facilities across our Royston site. The role combines Environmental, Health and Safety leadership with facilities and general services, overseeing contractors and services to keep site operations safe and efficient.

The successful candidate will manage risk assessments, audits, budget, and multi-disciplinary teams while ensuring regulatory compliance and continuous improvement in a regulated

Qualifications

• NEBOSH National Certificate or Diploma or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on facilities management and safety leadership experience in pharmaceutical/biopharma or regulated manufacturing.
• Line management experience of a small team; ability to stay calm under pressure and prioritise competing demands.
• Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
• Knowledge of environmental, health and safety law.
• Experience with budget management and data-driven decision making.
• Highly organised, logical, practical and solutions-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead Environmental, Health and Safety policies and initiatives to build a proactive safety culture and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Oversee Health and Safety activities through the Assistant Health and Safety Manager, including risk assessments, audits and incident investigations.
• Manage facilities and general services across distributed buildings, ensuring maintenance of offices, labs and welfare facilities.
• Coordinate planned and reactive maintenance; oversee cleaning, waste, pest control and energy expenditure; support business continuity and site resilience.
• Lead multi-disciplinary resources, including reception staff and facilities contractors; monitor service levels, budgets and timelines.
• Manage and optimise the facilities budget, balancing value, quality and speed; maintain records and reporting.
• Plan and deliver facilities and infrastructure projects with scopes, business cases and procurement documentation.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Negotiation skills

Budget management

Project planning

People management

Organisational skills

Regulatory knowledge

Education

NEBOSH National Certificate or Diploma or equivalent experience

Job description

Join our team as a Health and Safety/Facilities Manager and play a key role in creating a safe, compliant and well-maintained working environment across our Royston site operations. Combining Environmental, Health and Safety leadership with responsibility for facilities and general services, you will oversee the resources, contractors and services that keep our sites running safely and effectively. This is a hands‑on, site-based role requiring a visible presence across the workplace and an opportunity to contribute to what matters most: better health for more people.

Grow with us - Your Responsibilities

• Lead and promote Environmental, Health and Safety policies, objectives and initiatives, helping to build a proactive safety culture and ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, internal policies, standards and guidelines
• Oversee Health and Safety activities through the Assistant Health and Safety Manager, including risk assessments, audits, corrective actions, incident investigations, fire safety arrangements, statutory inspections and contractor compliance
• Take responsibility for facilities and general services across distributed buildings, ensuring grounds, offices, laboratories, production areas and welfare facilities are maintained to the required standards
• Coordinate planned preventative and reactive maintenance and oversee services including cleaning, waste management, pest control, recycling, security and energy expenditure, while supporting business continuity, emergency preparedness and site resilience
• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary resources, including permanent and temporary reception staff, as well as facilities contractors and service providers, monitoring delivery against agreed service levels, budgets and timescales
• Manage and optimise the allocated facilities budget, balance value, quality and speed while maintaining accurate records and reporting to relevant stakeholders
• Plan and deliver facilities and infrastructure projects, carrying out pre-studies and preparing scopes, business cases, procurement documentation and investment proposals for renovations, developments and building extensions

What will convince us

• NEBOSH National Certificate or Diploma or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience in hands - on facilities management, maintenance management, workplace health and safety management ideally in a pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical industry though candidates from other regulated industries in manufacturing will also be considered
• Demonstrated line management experience of a small team, the ability to remain calm under pressure, resolve conflict and confidently prioritising competing demands
• Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and influence across the organisation
• Understanding and know how on legal framework regarding environmental, health and safety law
• Experience of budget management and using data to support effective decision-making.
• A highly organised and logical approach, combined with sound judgement and a practical, solutions-focused mindset.

In order to commence working with us, the successful candidate will have the right to work in the UK.

What we offer

Asa growing globallife science company, stock listed on the German MDAX and TecDAX, Sartorius offers a wide range of benefits:

• Personal and Professional Development: mentoring, leadership programs, LinkedIn Learning, internal seminar offerings
• Making an impact right from the start: Comprehensive onboarding, including a virtual online platform-even before joining
• Welcoming Culture: Mutual support,team-spirit and international collaboration; communities on numerous topics such as coaching, agile working and businesswomennetwork
• Health & Well-Being: Wide section of health and well-being

Benefits

Attractive Working Conditions:

• * 37.5 hours working week
• * 25 days annual leave, plus public holidays
• * Free parking on site
• * Annual option to buy, sell or carry forward annual year
• * Free hot and cold drinks
• * Regular social events and free exercise classes
• * Competitive benefits package, including:
• o Group Personal Pension Plan
• o Private Medical Insurance
• o Private Dental Insurance
• o Group Life Assurance
• o Group Income Protection
• o Cycle to work scheme

About Sartorius

Sartorius is part of the solution in the fight against cancer, dementia, and many other diseases. Our technologies help translate scientific discoveries into real-world medicine faster, so that new therapeutics can reach patients worldwide.

We look for ambitious team players and creative minds, who want to contribute to this goal and advance their careers in a dynamic global environment.