Managing Director:
Hard FM & Industrial Services
Location: Flexible UK location, with travel to client sites nationwide
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Salary: Excellent executive salary, dependent on experience
Package: Performance bonus, car allowance, pension, benefits and equity opportunity
About Ambrey Baker
Ambrey Baker is a specialist industrial services business delivering solutions across highly regulated
environments.
Our clients operate critical facilities where uptime, compliance and operational continuity are essential.
Many are also undertaking business-improvement projects involving new equipment, production lines, robotics,
factory remodelling and refurbishment.
Our core sectors include:
- Food manufacturing
- Cold chain and refrigeration
- Logistics and distribution
- Pharmaceutical and life sciences
- Industrial manufacturing
- Process industries
Our service offering is built around four core business pillars:
- Consultancy & Design
- Capital Projects
- Hard FM & Industrial Services
- Decommissioning
We are seeking an experienced business leader to lead and grow our Hard FM & Industrial Services division.
The division currently delivers approximately £5 million of annual revenue through essential repairs,
maintenance, industrial services and small works. The business has a clear ambition to grow the division to £15
million-plus annual turnover during the next three to five years.
The Role
As Managing Director of Hard FM & Industrial Services, you will take responsibility for the divisionʼs strategic,
commercial and operational performance.
This is a senior leadership appointment with direct influence on business strategy, growth and future ownership.
The successful candidate will have a clear pathway towards equity participation.
You will lead the continued development of maintenance, essential repairs, industrial services and small works
across regulated industrial environments.
You will build client relationships, develop recurring revenue, strengthen operational delivery and create the
leadership structure required to support future growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver the divisionʼs growth strategy from approximately £5 million to £15 million-plus annual turnover.
- Take full ownership of the divisionʼs profit and loss performance.
- Develop new client relationships and expand existing key accounts.
- Build long-term relationships with clients operating in regulated industrial sectors.
- Lead business development, commercial and operational teams.
- Grow maintenance, essential repairs and small works service lines across multiple technical disciplines.
- Develop framework agreements, repeat-work opportunities and recurring revenue streams.
- Recruit, mentor and develop future team members and the divisionʼs leadership team.
- Ensure services support client compliance, asset performance and operational continuity.
- Contribute to group strategy across the four business pillars.
- Support future acquisitions, integration activity and wider business-growth initiatives.
- Represent Ambrey Baker at senior client meetings, industry events and strategic discussions.
Essential Experience and Qualifications
- Proven experience leading a profit centre, business unit or comparable operational division.
- Strong commercial and financial management capability.
- A track record of growing revenue and profitability.
- Experience working within regulated manufacturing or industrial environments.
- Experience leading operational, commercial and business-development teams.?
- Ability to develop strategic client relationships and key accounts.
- Experience delivering maintenance, repairs, shutdowns, industrial services or small works.
- Strong leadership, decision-making and communication skills.
- Ability to build and deliver a clear growth strategy.
- Willingness to travel throughout the UK to client sites and business locations.
Suitable Backgrounds
This role may suit someone currently working as a:
- Managing Director
- Business Unit Director
- Regional Director
- Operations Director
- Commercial Director
- Industrial Services Director
- Senior leader ready to progress into a divisional Managing Director appointment
Relevant sector backgrounds include:
- Hard FM
- Industrial maintenance
- Mechanical and electrical services
- Refrigeration engineering
- Building engineering services
- Specialist building or civils
- Machinery manufacture, supply or installation
Desirable Experience
- Food manufacturing environments.
- Cold chain and refrigeration facilities.
- Pharmaceutical or life-science facilities.
- Facilities management within industrial sectors.
- Capital-project delivery.
- Acquisition, integration or business-growth experience.
- Experience developing framework agreements and recurring-revenue service models.
- Experience supporting operational clients with live-site maintenance and improvement works.
What We Offer
- Excellent executive remuneration package.
- Performance bonus linked to growth and profitability.
- Car allowance.
- Pension and wider benefits package.
- Significant autonomy and decision-making authority as part of the Senior Management Team.
- Open access to Board Members.
- A genuine opportunity to participate in future equity ownership.
- The opportunity to build and lead a substantial Hard FM and Industrial Services business within an
established and growing organisation.
How to Apply
For a confidential discussion, please contact us directly via matthew.waldeck@ambreybaker.co.uk
Your covering letter should outline your experience of leading a business unit or profit centre, developing
regulated industrial-sector clients and delivering revenue and profitability growth.
LIFECYCLE SUPPORT
Leading Specialists in Industrial Facilities
From early-stage consultancy & design, to Hard FM, repair, refurbishment, reconfiguration, capital works & decommissioning. We support essential facilities that need to remain safe, compliant & operational throughout their working life