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Siemens Healthineers MR Magnet Technology is the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of superconducting magnets for magnetic resonance imaging - over a third of MRI scanners installed worldwide have at their heart a magnet manufactured in our Eynsham factory. The business has been awarded several Queen’s Awards for export success, two Best Factory Awards and an IMechE Manufacturing Excellence Award and is justifiably proud of its engineering and manufacturing heritage.
Due to the expansion of magnet production and the opening of a brand new, industry 4.0 aligned site at Bicester, we have a newly created position of Facilities Manager to co-ordinate facilities management across all Siemens Heathineers MT (Magnet Technologies) sites.  In this role you'll managed a team of 5 responsible for the provision of hard and soft services to the production and office areas across all sites, ensuring the compliant, effective and efficient delivery of facilities services.  You;ll  need to combine the development of future best in class facilities strategy with delivering operational excellence.  There will be plenty of outsourced contracts for you to manage, ensuring the service providers are delivering against the contracted SLAs and KPIs.  You'll work closely with production to understand their needs from an infrastructure and support perspective, defining the strategy on providing solutions whilst managing expectations as to what's achievable.  You'll have regular interactions with the Senior Leadership Team where you'll be able to build strong respect, trust and confidence through your expert knowledge and interpersonal ability.  You'll take responsibility for the growth and progression of your people, ensuring they have robust training and development plans in place and coaching and mentoring them throughout the year.  
This really is a great time to join in this role, as it gives you the opportunity to build your team and both define, and deliver, the FM strategy for a modern, advanced new build facility.   

Responsibilities.

Ensure facilities works conducted across all sites, whether by MT employees or contractors are delivered to health & safety best practice guidelines.
Oversee the operation of the processes for contractor control, CDM and permitting ensuring compliance and consistency across all sites.
Regularly review the facility departments process and procedures to assess their suitability and relevance, identify opportunities for improvement.
Ensuring regular reviews are conducted covering statutory and business requirements such as Legionella risk assessment, fix wiring testing, site security reviews, insurance risk reviews. Where action point are identified ensure, they are evaluated and remedial actions carried out where required.
Manage the embedded service contracts for catering, cleaning, waste and security.
Develop, monitor, control and publish the facilities KPI’s, for safety, environment, equipment reliability, service standards and costs. Use the KPI’s to drive improved performance. 
Embed a culture of continuous improvement within the facilities team, aligned with Siemens Healthineers core values, support the team to continuously improve performance, standards & processes, and drive efficiencies.
Take full responsibility for the facilities departments CAPEX and OPEX budget, from the initial development submitting for approval through the monitoring and control of the spend across all sites.
Ensure building system are serviced and inspected in line with SFG20 principles to ensure that equipment operates in a compliant and effective manner. 
Regularly review with the facilities team the performance of the building systems and determine which potential improvement projects should be implemented.
Be the escalation point for the resolution of facilities issues across all sites that have not been satisfactory resolved at a timely manner.
Oversee the execution of major facilities project works reviewing performance, including health & safety, delivery, cost and quality.
Develop the facilities future strategy for best-in-class service delivery.
Responsible for the management of the facilities team, including developing employees, setting objectives, performance management, recruitment and succession planning.
Requirements for the role.

Degree qualified in engineering or building services.
Must have managed maintenance of building services in an industrial environment.
Familiar with a multi-site facilities management operations.
Familiar with building systems such as, temperature control systems, process water, fire alarm systems, security systems (CCTV, access control), compressed gas, electrical distribution systems, IT networks, etc.
Must have experience managing internal teams and contractors. 
Excellent IT skills, with the ability to present clearly, analysis data and suggest improvements through automation and digitalization opportunities.
This is a full time onsite role, based 4 days a week in Bicester and 1 at Eynsham
Benefits:

26 days' holiday with the option to buy or sell an additional 5
Up to 10% employer matched pension contribution
10% On target bonus
BUPA private medical cover
Share save scheme
Access to our flexible benefits from private medical insurance and EV cars to dental cover
Free to use onsite gym
Study aid programme 
Corporate Social Responsibility opportunities including 2 paid volunteering days per year and support from our 24/7 employee assistance programme
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We are a team of more than 71,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work:

When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

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