Senior Workplace (Facilities) Manager

Company Description

For over 20 years, abcam has been providing tools the scientific community needs to enable faster breakthroughs in critical areas like cancer, neurological disorders, infectious diseases, and metabolic disorders.

We believe that to continue making progress, we need to work together in new ways. We need your own unique perspective as well as this of our people to make an always greater impact on the world. This community needs people like you: dedicated, agile and above all audacious so we can truly bring progress forward.

Job Description

About the role 

With site capacity expanding by almost 30% this year, and several exciting investments in progress, Abcam has a new opportunity for a Senior Workplace Manager at our 100,000sqft Waltham, MA location (For a short video tour - click here)

Our US HQ is a beautiful site that opened in late 2020 and is home to a variety of corporate, laboratory and logistics teams. Our Workplace team are responsible for all soft and hard services, along with laboratory support on site and the Senior Workplace Manager is at the heart of the operation – creating and maintaining outstanding, flexible and safe that allow our people to do our best work.

We’re looking for an experienced leader who enjoys both being hands on driving operational performance and “making change happen” whilst also considering how best to evolve the site and business to respond to the needs of our customers and employees.

Roles & Responsibilities: 

You will ensure our site standards and design principles are upheld providing clean and safe spaces for our teams to do their best work. By leading and developing your Workplace team you will deliver cost effective and on-time planned/reactive maintenance and upkeep of all laboratory, office areas and equipment on site to the very highest standard. Establishing a strong network and point of escalation when needed whilst maintaining strong relationships with our colleagues, landlords, partners and workplace vendors.

You will interested in changes in the Workplace industry and connect this to what it means for our ways of working and buildings to identify initiatives and improvements to environment, working with your team to continuously improve our experience at work.

Qualifications

You will have previous experience leading a workplace/facilities team to deliver a great place to work and are able to look to the future so our workplaces keep pace with our growth.

You will have experience working with laboratory environments and have a technical understanding of HVAC systems, mechanical and electrical services, wastewater, plumbing, RODI systems, fire safety alarms, compressed air, gas distribution systems, building and structural maintenance.

You are available for emergency call when situations arise. You are comfortable lifting, carrying, reaching, bending, pushing, pulling, climbing, kneeling, and twisting on an occasional basis and are comfortable climbing ladders when needed.

You are a great people manager, having built effective and engaged teams, always looking to improve their development and careers. Your ability to manage the most senior stakeholders with a calm and thoughtful approach will be a key strength as you consider how to manage change across all our teams.

You are a great communicator, able to win hearts and minds and able to keep up with both change and ambiguity. If this sounds like you and you’d like to be a part of a fast-paced, growing business with the vision to become the most influential company and best-loved brand in life sciences, please apply now!

Additional Information

We know that when it comes to benefits, no one size fits all. Flexibility and choice matter which is why in addition to market competitive salaries, we offer you a flexible benefits package which is tailored to your unique needs and support your financial, physical and emotional wellbeing. This includes our award-winning share scheme, 18 weeks fully paid maternity leave, 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave as well as highly flexible working and much more. Besides, your development will be integral to your experience here. You will grow alongside other talented minds, in ways you may often find unexpected.

When people come together, incredible things happen. Here you’ll work in a safe environment where you can be who you truly are. We’ll champion and celebrate your uniqueness throughout your journey with us. This is how we excel at partnering with the scientific community no matter the challenge, ultimately helping solve the world’s most critical diseases. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at abcam.

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