Facilities Manager

Overview

Oversee housekeeping and facilities teams to ensure safe, compliant, high-quality student housing.

Key Responsibilities

• building checks
• workload management
• facilities maintenance
• compliance monitoring
• planned maintenance
• sustainability

Tasks

-Conduct regular building checks to make sure that our buildings are clean, safe, and secure -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. -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 -Help us deliver on our sustainability strategies to provide net-zero carbon accommodation and create resilient, resource-efficient assets to do so -Take responsibility for the delivery of the planned maintenance strategy within your local cluster of properties -Articulate and advocate the organisations vision and strategic plans to your team to help deliver at a local level

Requirements

• facilities mgmt
• hvac
• leadership
• project mgmt
• iosh
• fire safety

What You Bring

-You will have experience working within soft or hard facilities management -Good working knowledge of Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems -You will hold strong leardership skills and the ability confidently lead your team to maintain exceptional customer service -Experience of project management of small to medium projects -You are able to manage the competing demands of compliance and delivering world-class experience for our students -Experience of managing fire safety within the property environment -IOSH ciritfication and Good knowledge of property related health and safety issues preferably within a management system -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.

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Benefits

-Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more! -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 -A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save -25 days` paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service -A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company`s success

About Unite Students

-Develops and manages hundreds of student halls, funding new builds and acquisitions. -Supports partnerships with top universities across 120+ UK properties. -Projects include high-rise towers, refurbished heritage buildings, and joint-venture schemes with universities like Newcastle. -Utilizes modular construction for off-site bedroom unit fabrication, enabling faster delivery and consistent quality.

Sector Specialisms

Security Clearance

-basic criminal record check required before start; cost covered by employer.