Are you an experienced mechanical, electrical, plumbing or building services Engineer looking for challenging and rewarding projects? If the answer is yes, you’ll feel professionally at home at Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM). These are exciting times in Greater Manchester and we are recruiting a Building Services Officer to join our Facilities Management Services team at TfGM!
Your Role
Join a FastMoving Facilities Management Team Where No Two Days Are the Same
Step into the world of FM, where every day brings a fresh challenge and a new opportunity to make an impact. Your role sits at the heart of our operational delivery, supporting a wide range of programmes across the Bee Network estate. From bus depot renewals and essential FM activities to revitalising bus stations and interchanges, you’ll play a key part in shaping assets that keep Greater Manchester moving. You’ll also help drive forward vital lifecycle replacement projects, ensuring our environments remain safe, modern, and fit for purpose.
If you enjoy a varied role and working collaboratively to solve problems, and want to be part of delivering meaningful improvements across a complex operational network this is the role for you. Your day will typically blend planned work with the unexpected challenges that keep FM professionals on their toes. One moment you’ll be delivering proactive maintenance and reviewing contractor reports; the next, you’ll be reacting to plant or equipment issues, machinery faults, incidents, or urgent safety concerns that require calm, effective action. You’ll play a key part in ensuring assets remain operational, safe, and compliant. From attending meetings and coordinating with contractors to managing preventive maintenance (PM) schedules and responding to real-time FM challenges, this role places you at the heart of keeping our environments running smoothly.
Who are we?
TfGM, own, manage and operate some of the most significant buildings and structures in Greater Manchester our Facilities Management team covers everything from day-to-day maintenance to the delivery of refurbishment and new build projects. At the moment we are investing in improving our properties and transportation infrastructure through refurbishments, and several exciting new‑build projects. The breadth of work you’ll get involved in as a Building Services Officer in TfGM is quite extensive.
What you’ll bring
What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.
You must hold a full driving license for this role. You’ll thrive here if you bring: Handson FM experience, ideally gained through time spent working with tools on the ground. HNC/HND (or equivalent) as a minimum, demonstrating strong technical understanding. An apprenticeship or similar vocational route is absolutely welcomed what matters most is your practical, real world experience maintaining and troubleshooting assets.
You will have experience managing and supervising building services (we welcome a range of experiences and backgrounds), strong technical knowledge of MEP systems, and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues. Candidates must demonstrate effective contractor management, strong communication, influencing skills, and experience with CAFM/EAM systems, audits, compliance monitoring and PPM review. You will be experienced of using Microsoft Office 365 and proficient in MS Excel, AutoCAD experience and memberships of Professional body are desirable.
A proactive mindset and the ability to work calmly and collaboratively when things don’t go to plan. Even if you don’t meet every listed requirement in the role profile, we still encourage you to apply we’re looking for people with the right mindset and transferable skills.
If you love variety, enjoy problemsolving, and want a role where your technical skills are genuinely valued every single day, this is the perfect FM opportunity.
What we can offer you
A permanent role with a salary of £43,210 - £47,947 per annum depending on skills and experience. As an investor in people, we will make sure you’ll never stop learning and progressing. Working with like-minded, equally passionate professionals, no two projects or maintenance schemes are the same and each will bring its own challenges and opportunities.
Our benefits include
* Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
* Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.
* Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
* Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
* Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website
TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.
For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.
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