Operations Supervisor

1 week ago

Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time £26,093 - £28,778 per year

Grade UE07: £26,093 to £28,778 per annum (£14.30 to £15.77 per hour)

Corporate Services Group / Edinburgh Sport

Guaranteed Hours contract

Fixed term: ending 31 August 2026

6 positions

We are looking for Operations Supervisors to oversee the daily operations of our university facilities. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing a team of operational staff, liaising with colleagues from the University, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations, and providing excellent customer service. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in leading a team, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

The Opportunity:

Under the guidance of the Facility/Duty Management teams, you will assist in supervising staff to ensure the delivery of Sport & Exercise's industry-leading facilities and services to our members and guests. This includes supporting Sports Union clubs, VIP visitors, and University employees. Experience in a fast-paced service environment is essential, along with a proactive and enthusiastic approach to teamwork and adaptability to change.

This role will be based at one of our award-winning sites: The Pleasance Sports Complex, St Leonard's Land, or Peffermill Playing Fields.

Pleasance Sports Complex

St Leonard's Land

Peffermill Playing Fields

Your skills and attributes for success:

  • Provide safe, inclusive and 'game-ready' environment for Edinburgh Sport members and guests.
  • Deliver 'best in class' service.
  • Live by our values by making contributions to our community ('Our World'), taking pride in your work and development ('Your World') all whilst feeding into our global attitude ('The World').

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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, gym membership, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives 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.

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

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

The closing date for applications is 28 November 2025

Interviews will be held week commencing 1 st December 2025

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.

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