Job Description
Grade UE07: £41,064 to £48,822 per annum
CSE / School of Geosciences
Full-time: 35 hours per week
Open-ended (permanent)
The Opportunity
An excellent opportunity has arisen within the School of GeoSciences on the Kings Buildings Campus for a School Buildings Operation Manager. The post holder will play a critical role contributing to the School’s estate, facilities, technical and scientific services in order to deliver high-quality infrastructure underpinning the School’s research and teaching. The role offers variety and stretch across a range of support functions, enabling you to develop professionally, within a supportive and collegiate environment.
This post is full-time (35 hours per week), however, we are open to considering flexible working patterns
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
- A good honors degree or equivalent qualifications or experience preferably in a subject area relevant to the school’s scientific activity.
- Experience in a leadership role preferably in a Facility or Buildings capacity.
- Knowledge of buildings maintenance and ability to identify appropriate specialist trades required to remediate defects.
- Proven ability to co-ordinate and oversee projects involving multiple stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Capable of establishing and maintaining productive working relationships with colleagues within and out with the School, ability to negotiate and influence colleagues to deliver on Building Infrastructure priorities.
- Driving Licence.
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Application Information
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
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.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our
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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.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is
25th August 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.
Interviews will be held
as soon as possible after the advert closing date.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
The School of GeoSciences explores the factors and forces that shape our world. The School aims to understand the world through fundamental curiosity-driven research and to support prescient decision-making at individual to global scales. We undertake world-leading research; offer new ways of understanding natural and social drivers of change; provide inter-and trans-disciplinary solutions; and work in partnership to improve livelihoods and explore ways to manage the environment that are both sustainable and socially equitable.
With over 500 academics, researchers and research students, we are the largest and most successful interdisciplinary grouping of geoscientists and geographers in the UK. Research activity is coordinated within three main Research Institutes – Global Change, Earth and Planetary Science, and Geography and the Lived Environment – and within smaller research groupings that reach across and beyond the School.
A distinctive feature of the School is the combination of academic strength, intellectual breadth and societal relevance. Our interdisciplinary research and teaching builds on established core disciplines (ecology, environmental sciences, geography, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography) to provide a variety of approaches to understanding the world (including, for example, system-scale modelling, process studies and the development of urban and social theory). The School’s research covers fundamental ‘blue-skies’ questions, as well as having application to key societal challenges including inequality and vulnerability; urban precarity; nature and cultural meaning; development and sustainability; climate and environmental change; energy, food and water security; health and wellbeing; natural resources; and natural hazards.
The School of GeoSciences aims to recognise and value diversity in our staff and students, and to support flexible and family-friendly working.
More details about the School is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences
