Facilities Manager – Food Distribution & Manufacturing
Salary: Up to £50,000 + Bonus + Benefits
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
120,000 sq ft Distribution Centre. Multi-Site Responsibility. Real Operational Ownership.
Nter Talent is partnering with an established business to recruit an experienced Facilities Manager who understands what it takes to keep a busy food distribution operation running safely, efficiently and without disruption.
This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys being hands‑on, solving operational challenges and taking genuine ownership of facilities performance.
Based primarily in Welwyn Garden City, you’ll oversee a 120,000 sq ft distribution centre while providing facilities support and governance across additional UK operations, including a manufacturing site in Corwen.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for someone who understands that facilities management in a food distribution environment is about much more than maintaining buildings.
It’s about ensuring operational continuity, maintaining compliance, managing critical infrastructure and working closely with operational teams to keep products moving.
You’ll have the autonomy to improve standards, develop preventative maintenance strategies and influence how facilities are managed across the business.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Take ownership of day‑to‑day facilities operations at a busy 120,000 sq ft distribution centre.
- Oversee planned preventative maintenance (PPM), reactive maintenance and statutory inspections.
- Ensure warehouse infrastructure, including racking, dock levellers, shutters and associated equipment, is maintained to high standards.
- Manage Health & Safety, fire safety and environmental compliance across operational facilities.
- Lead contractor management, supplier relationships, service agreements and facilities budgets.
- Support facilities operations and compliance at a manufacturing site in Corwen.
- Deliver facilities improvement projects, refurbishments and capital investment initiatives.
- Work closely with Operations, Engineering and senior leadership to minimise downtime and improve operational efficiency.
- Lead and develop a small facilities team.
What We’re Looking For
Experience within food distribution, food logistics or food manufacturing environments is highly desirable.
You’ll ideally have:
- 5+ years’ experience in Facilities Management within distribution, warehousing, manufacturing or FMCG operations.
- Strong experience working within food distribution or similarly demanding, operationally critical environments.
- Experience managing facilities across multiple sites.
- A solid understanding of UK Health & Safety legislation, statutory compliance and building maintenance.
- Experience managing PPM programmes, external contractors and maintenance budgets.
- Strong knowledge of warehouse infrastructure and operational facilities.
- A practical, commercially aware approach with the ability to prioritise competing operational demands.
Why Consider This Opportunity?
This is a role where your decisions will have a direct impact on operational performance.
You’ll have responsibility for a significant distribution facility, involvement across multiple sites and the opportunity to drive meaningful improvements to infrastructure, compliance and operational standards.
If you’re an experienced Facilities Manager with a background in food distribution, logistics or industrial operations, I’d be keen to have a conversation.
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