BURN is seeking a Global Facilities Manager to oversee its factories, warehouses, and offices across all regions. BURN designs, manufactures, and distributes aspirational fuel-efficient cooking products that save lives and forests in the developing world. This role involves ensuring compliance with company standards, leading site expansions, and managing facility-related infrastructure and maintenance globally. The ideal candidate will provide leadership to regional teams and ensure a consistent standard for safety, security, and utilities across all locations.
Duties and Responsibilities
Global Facilities Management & Infrastructure
- Oversee all factories, warehouses, and offices across all regions to ensure compliance with company standards.
- Lead site expansions, upgrades, and relocations, and support layout optimization projects.
- Lead facility audits globally and ensure corrective actions are implemented by regional teams.
- Ensure consistent standards for building safety, security, utilities, waste management, and infrastructure across all locations.
Global Coordination & Team Leadership
- Lead and mentor regional Facilities Officers across multiple countries.
- Develop and enforce global facilities SOPs, standards, and checklists for uniform execution.
- Conduct regular training and capability-building sessions for regional teams.
- Ensure timely reporting, issue escalation, and alignment between regions and HQ.
Facilities-Related Maintenance Oversight
- Supervise and coordinate facility-related maintenance activities with the regional facilities and maintenance teams: buildings, utilities, compressed air lines, drainage, firefighting systems, HVAC, water supply, lighting, and infrastructure.
- Review preventive maintenance plans for facilities and ensure implementation by regional teams.
Global Fleet Management
- Oversee the management of company vehicles across all countries, including motorbikes, vans, trucks, and service vehicles.
- Implement global fleet policies covering usage, safety, preventive maintenance, driver qualification, and vehicle assignment.
- Ensure compliance with local regulations for licensing, insurance, and inspection.
- Monitor fuel consumption, mileage tracking, and vehicle utilization to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs.
- Coordinate with regional teams on vehicle procurement, disposal, and replacement cycles based on asset life and cost-benefit analysis.
- Manage accident reporting in collaboration with the health and safety officer, repairs, insurance claims, and root-cause analysis for recurring fleet incidents.
- Introduce and maintain GPS tracking systems where applicable to improve accountability and fleet visibility.
Budgeting & Cost Control
- Develop and manage the global facilities budget, including utilities, building repairs, facility consumables, and capital projects.
- Track facility-related expenditure across all regions and drive cost-efficiency.
- Evaluate and approve facility upgrades and renovations.
- Support planning and execution of CAPEX projects related to buildings, utilities, factory expansions, and infrastructure improvements.
Vendor & Contractor Management
- Oversee selection and performance of contractors globally for construction, facility repairs, cleaning, security, landscaping, pest control, waste disposal, and utilities servicing.
- Ensure vendor compliance with safety, quality, and service-level expectation.
Continuous Improvement & Collaboration
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives across facility operations, energy optimization, waste reduction, safety improvements, and digital recordkeeping.
- Support new project and products launches by ensuring facilities readiness across regions.
Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, or Facilities Management.
- 7+ years of facilities management experience in a manufacturing environment (sheet metal preferred).
- Experience managing multi-site or multi-country facility operations is strongly preferred.
- Strong knowledge of utilities, industrial infrastructure, and compliance requirements.
- Proven ability to lead technical teams and coordinate cross-region activities.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online by visiting the following application link: BURN Application Portal. Follow the instructions on the platform to complete your application.
