About the role

Department Manager for Facility Infrastructure at AIXTRON responsible for maintaining and managing building operations. Leading teams and ensuring optimal conditions for facilities in Herzogenrath.

Responsibilities

You lead the Facility Infrastructure department and ensure that our buildings and properties at the Herzogenrath site are kept in optimal condition.
You manage the Facility Infrastructure team both technically and disciplinarily and coordinate collaboration with external service providers.
Together with your team you prepare clear service specifications and tender documents — ensuring top quality for our soft services (e.g., cleaning, waste disposal, grounds maintenance).
You plan and organize maintenance and repair activities for our building infrastructure.
You are responsible for physical security and key management of our properties and actively support fire protection measures.
You take on space and office planning to provide functional, modern working environments.
During audits you are the competent contact for your area of responsibility and continuously drive process improvements.
Budget planning, commercial administration and meeting target objectives are part of your responsibilities.

You have a completed technical or business degree in Facility Management, Business Administration, Real Estate Management or a related field.
Alternatively, you hold a completed vocational qualification with relevant further training.
You have several years of experience in facility management, building management or a comparable role — ideally with proven responsibility for infrastructure and team leadership.
You are confident in handling building services systems as well as organizing maintenance and repair measures.
Ideally, you have knowledge of fire protection and security technology.
You are experienced in managing projects, setting clear priorities and reliably achieving targets.
You communicate confidently, in a structured and persuasive manner — both internally and with external partners.
Personally, you demonstrate a hands-on mentality, results orientation and a strong affinity for process improvements.
You have very good German language skills and good to very good English skills for working in an international environment.

Flexible working hours: You can arrange your working time flexibly without fixed core hours, work remotely and switch between office and mobile work.
Vacation: You receive a standard 30 days of vacation. You can increase this annually through salary conversion.
Profit sharing: As an employee, you have the opportunity to participate in the company’s success and benefit from profit sharing.
Health: We promote your physical and mental health through, for example, regular health initiatives.
Professional development: We support your continuous development through our own AIXTRON Academy and individual development programs.
Retirement provision and additional insurance: We support your pension planning and offer capital-forming payments as well as individual supplementary insurance options.
Corporate benefits: You benefit from exclusive special conditions with numerous partners through our corporate benefits program.
Catering: Our company cafeteria offers subsidized meals as well as fresh fruit baskets with seasonal products.
Open corporate culture: We maintain an open and respectful "du" culture (informal first-name address) across all hierarchical levels.
Sustainability and mobility: We prioritize sustainability and offer e-charging stations for cars and bicycles, good transport connections and free parking spaces.
Employee referral program: If you recruit new talent for AIXTRON, we reward you generously through our referral program.