Facilities Manager

Location:

Edinburgh

Salary: £35,725 – £45,982 per annum (depending on experience), plus bonus and benefits

Are you experienced in managing a team to deliver high‑quality planned and reactive maintenance services in a property management environment, whilst keeping a customer focus? Then we have room for you in an exciting and varied new role, in a company that will recognise, reward, and grow your potential.

We are looking for a Facilities Manager who will help us provide outstanding service to the students who call US home.

You will be responsible for managing our Housekeeping and Facilities teams over a cluster of four buildings (with the potential for this number to grow) to maintain a well‑kept, safe, secure, compliant, and efficient environment across a cluster of properties, with support from the Team Leaders. This includes taking ownership of planned and reactive maintenance and housekeeping, and ensuring your team provides our students with a world‑class and responsive service.

• Articulate and advocate the organisation's vision and strategic plans to your team to help deliver at a local level.
• Take responsibility for the delivery of the planned maintenance strategy within your local cluster of properties.
• Take responsibility for ensuring compliance with all relevant Health and Safety assessments and monitoring, ensuring compliance across the cluster.
• Apply a consistent set of practices to identify team performance and gaps, build core competencies and improve overall employee performance.
• Manage your own and your team's workload and pressure, and adapt to evolving situations by seeking alternative approaches.
• Assist the facilities engineering team in keeping our properties in excellent condition.
• Conduct regular building checks to make sure that our buildings are clean, safe, and secure.
• Help us deliver on our sustainability strategies to provide net‑zero carbon accommodation and create resilient, resource‑efficient assets.

• You will hold strong leadership skills and the ability to confidently lead your team to maintain exceptional customer service.
• You will have experience working within soft or hard facilities management.
• You are able to manage the competing demands of compliance and delivering world‑class experience for our students.
• You remain calm and focussed, even in difficult or pressurised situations.

• Experience of working in an FM role previously, preferably in PBSA but not essential.
• Good working knowledge of Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems.
• IOSH certification and good knowledge of property related health and safety issues preferably within a management system.
• Experience of managing fire safety within the property environment.
• Experience of project management of small to medium projects.

• A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company’s success.
• 25 days paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service.
• A generous pension scheme – employer contributions between 5 % and 11 % depending on how much you save.
• Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform, and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends.
• Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non‑birthing parents.
• Lots of other great benefits including an annual Share Save scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more.

Founded in 1991, Unite Students is a FTSE 100 business and the UK’s largest provider of purpose‑built student accommodation. You can find us in 23 leading university towns and cities, with over 70,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.

We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn’t just what we do but who we are.

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