facilities manager Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
Institute Facilities Manager
UE08 £44,414 - £52,841
College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine / MGPHS / USHER Institute
Contract type: Full time (35hrs per week)
Open Ended contract available from 1st August 2023
Location: Usher Institute moves to a new building in Edinburgh Bioquarter, early 2024
The Usher Institute is looking for an Institute Facilities Manager. The post holder will organise and project manage the move of staff, students and partners into the new Usher Building at BioQuarter and oversee occupational arrangements during the initial phases of occupation. They will liaise with multiple stakeholders to develop and implement occupation schedules within the building, oversee the fit out of the building and have input into procurement processes and internal communication strategies.
Set up and manage processes for the new building infrastructure, working closely with Estates and CMVM colleagues. Provide advice and expert guidance to the Director of Professional Services end wider Usher Institute staff.
The Opportunity:
The Usher Institute sits within the Edinburgh Medical School in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. We also support the Health and Social Care Data-Driven Innovation Hub, part of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal.
This new Usher Building is a new multi-occupancy building housing up to 900 staff and students, including lease paying commercial partners. It will co-locate the Usher Institute with a community of partners from the public, private and third sectors - including small and medium-sized enterprises and health and care providers - working on the shared purpose of developing data-enabled solutions to benefit health and wellbeing.
This broad remit encompasses activities that include education, research, business and investor relationships. You will need to be comfortable and effective working as part of a team and independently. This is a busy environment, perfect for those who enjoy a role where you are entrusted with multiple tasks and where every day will be different.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Vivien Smith (Director of Professional Services) [email protected].
- Evidence of team working, working collaboratively with colleagues, business partners and key stakeholders
- Flexible and diplomatic with proven negotiating skills to resolve conflicts and find common ground
- Comfortable engaging and networking with colleagues at all levels with ability to adapt your communications according to the audience
- Knowledge of Health and Safety issues and regulations.
- High level of computer literacy
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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, 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.
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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.
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