Facilities Manager

Hackney, London
The Dusty Knuckle-1

Role: Facilities Manager

Location: All TDK sites

Contract: Full time – 40 hours (flexible working hours each week)

Salary: £48k per year

If you are interested in applying, please send your CV and a cover letter by an email via the button below.

The Role

This role is responsible for managing Health & Safety strategy across the entire company and ensuring the smooth, safe, and cost-effective running of all TDK sites and vehicles. This includes ownership of all equipment, repairs, maintenance, cleaning operations, utilities management, and contractor oversight.

A critical part of this role is managing variable budgets, ensuring equipment upkeep through well-planned PPM schedules, preventing unnecessary overspend, and maintaining a compliant, safe working environment for every member of the team.

This role has been designed to support the company’s growth through excellent organisation, operational oversight, preventative maintenance, and strategic planning.

The Facilities Manager will work closely with all Senior Team members and report directly to one of the directors of the company.

You will need to have access to a vehicle for fast commute between sites.

Key Responsibilities

Maintenance & Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM)

• Manage all repairs and maintenance for all sites and vehicles
• Implement and monitor PPM schedules to extend equipment life and prevent budget overspend
• Ensure equipment is properly logged, tracked, and maintained
• Oversee on-site maintenance staff (currently only 1), ensuring tasks such as painting, minor repairs, door fixes, shelf installation, and troubleshooting are completed efficiently
• Maintain all site standards required under GMS and other operational frameworks
• Monitor and report maintenance performance weekly and monthly
• Manage any third party building and maintenance contracts.

Budget Ownership & Cost Management:

• Manage variable budget allocation per site section, ensuring spend is tracked and controlled
• Oversee the utilities budget, identifying opportunities to reduce usage and cost
• Plan annual equipment and upkeep spend, providing forecasts and cost-saving strategies
• Ensure value for money by sourcing competitive quotes for all works, projects, and equipment purchases.

Contractor & Project Management:

• Manage all contractors for both small works and major build projects / seasonal works
• Obtain competitive quotes, negotiate pricing, and oversee delivery to ensure project success
• Liaise with directors, suppliers, engineers, and contractors to ensure timelines and specifications are met
• Maintain accurate project documentation and updates for the wider team.

Health & Safety:

• Manage H&S and COSHH strategy for the whole company
• Deliver H&S training to all employees and ensure compliance with legislation
• Ensure all sites remain up to date with Environmental Health (EHO), Health & Hygiene, and workplace safety requirements
• Manage all documentation, incident logs, risk assessments, and safety audits
• Ensure teams are fully trained and follow all legal obligations and best practice.

Cleaning Operations Management:

• Manage internal cleaning teams and external providers (e.g. KPS), including deep cleans
• Ensure cleaning standards meet company, hygiene, and EHO requirements
• Build rotas, protocols, and training for cleaning teams to ensure consistency
• Monitor cleaning budgets, performance, and equipment needs.

People & Communication:

• Recruit, train, and develop maintenance and cleaning teams (from section KPs to company deep cleaning to third party contracts)
• Provide weekly check-ins with operational teams to report on project progress, maintenance updates, and upcoming works
• Maintain exceptional internal communication so all staff remain aware of priorities, timelines, and site-wide changes
• Keep accurate logs of all equipment, budgets, PPM schedules, and projects.

Key Skills & Behaviours Required:

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in facilities or building maintenance
• Basic plumbing, electrics & building skills
• Strong organisational and logging skills; loves systems, documentation, and tracking
• A proactive, “can-do,” hands-on problem solver who also knows when to step back and think strategically
• Calm, measured, and able to prioritise effectively across multiple sites
• Excellent communication skills

Who are we?

The Dusty Knuckle is a vibey bakery, café, and Youth Training Programme in London’s Dalston, Harringay & Highbury neighbourhoods. It started in 2014, making loaves from a shipping container in a Dalston car park, before expanding to a café and pizza spot in Harringay in 2021 and a cool van servicing the coffee, pastry and bread needs of Highbury residents in 2024. Awarded Time Out’s ‘Best Bakery in London’ and a King’s Enterprise Award in 2025.

The Dusty Knuckle trains young offenders, or those at risk of crime into responsible professionals so that can achieve confidence and financial independence. We strive to make truly knockout food with the best ingredients we can find, with everything made in house whenever possible.

Why work for us?

Part-bakery, part-café, part training-program, The Dusty Knuckle is a truly unique workplace. We opened a second site in 2021, expanded our production HQ, and are looking to grow gently in the coming years, refining our training programme and operations as we go.

Join our team, and you will:

Enjoy our staff perks! At TDK, we offer:

• 3 extra days of holiday after completing 2 years at TDK, followed by 1 additional day for each year thereafter
• Regular inhouse massages for staff
• Discounted gym rates at Better Gyms
• Enhanced maternity and paternity
• Free staff food, coffee, bread and pastries
• Cycle to Work scheme/Tech scheme
• Employee support and specialist third party wellbeing service
• Regular appraisals to develop person-specific career goals
• Free use of our Campervan (if over 25 and a clean UK license).

If you are interested in applying, please send your CV and a cover letter by an email via the button below.