Buildings and Facilities Officer

3 months ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Buildings and Facilities Officer**

**UE05 (£25,742 - £29,605)**

**College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science**

**School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences**

**Contract Type - Open ended, Full time - 35 Hours Per Week**

**1 x position available
The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking to recruit a new full time, open-ended Buildings and Facilities Officer.

**The Opportunity**:
Working within the dedicated PPLS Facilities Team, the job holder will provide first line support in all matters related to facilities management, estates & buildings, security and health & safety across the PPLS estate. The job holder will be proactively involved with the ongoing changes taking place across the PPLS estates, ensuring transitions are smooth and timely, identifying areas for improvement and providing School-level project management support for works programs and office moves.

The post holder will work as part of the wider Buildings and Facilitates and Information Technology team and will assist with the deployment, movement and decommissioning of the School’s IT assets. The role also requires the post holder to provide basic support for printers and AV equipment.

The post holder will actively support and contribute to the schools success and will be encouraged to also deliver ideas for continuous improvement opportunities as they arise.

This role is entirely site-based at the PPLS estate, located within Central Campus. Hybrid working is not possible for this post.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Educated to at least HND level plus at least 2 years’ relevant work experience, OR school education to standard grade or equivalent plus typically 3 years’ relevant work experience
- Experience in project management
- Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
- Initiative and judgement to resolve problems independently, to be pro-active and to prioritise appropriately

Click **here **for a copy of the full job description.

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Application information:
We ask you to include a current CV and cover letter with names of three referees who may be contacted at a later date (please note if you do not wish for anyone to be contacted until _after _an offer has been made).

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages


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