Better places, thriving communities.
Location: Edinburgh
Contract Type: Full time
Are you passionate about delivering exceptional Facilities Management services in an education setting? Join Mitie, a leader in world-class service, and play a key role in ensuring schools run efficiently, safely, and in full compliance.
The Facilities Manager will provide support to the Account Manager in the management and delivery of contractual obligations and client expectations, monitor and report on Service Delivery performance monthly (or as requested by the client and ensure budgets are managed and utilised effectively to achieve overall contract profitability whilst providing the schools best service.
What You'll Do
1. Lead and support site teams to deliver outstanding FM services aligned with Mitie's values.
2. Ensure contractual and statutory compliance across multiple school sites.
3. Manage budgets effectively to achieve profitability while providing the best service.
4. Oversee planned maintenance, lifecycle works, and subcontractor performance.
5. Drive Health & Safety compliance and maintain strong client relationships.
6. Produce accurate reports and monitor service delivery performance.
7. Recruit, develop, and retain talented staff while fostering a culture of excellence.
What We're Looking For
8. Facilities Management qualification and proven experience in PFI and education contracts.
9. Strong operational knowledge of utilities and lifecycle management.
10. Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
11. Commercial awareness with a performance-driven mindset.
12. Proficiency in Outlook, Excel, and Word.
13. Commitment to safeguarding children and young people (Enhanced DBS required).
Why Join Us?
At Mitie, we value flexibility, teamwork, and continuous development. You'll have the opportunity to make a real impact, lead change, and support the future of education facilities.
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Mitie is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
If you are working in regulated activity please note that you are subject to the following:
14. It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group (i.e. vulnerable adults, children or both).
15. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and Mitie is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children or vulnerable adults.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Sophie Willson at .