Area Facilities Manager

Access Creative College; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holidays

Wellbeing benefits

Staff discounts

Paid leave

Job summary

Access Creative College is seeking an experienced Facilities Manager to lead the Nottingham campus. The role involves managing day-to-day operations, safety compliance, and a team of on-site staff and contractors to keep studios, labs and spaces ready for teaching and student activities.

You will oversee budgets, procurement and contracts while continuously seeking improvements to the campus environment and student experience. This is a full-time, on-site post based in Nottingham.

Qualifications

• Experience as facilities manager, preferably in an education setting.
• Proven ability to lead on-site facilities, security and compliance initiatives.
• Strong budgeting, procurement and supplier management skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day facilities operations at the Nottingham campus.
• Lead on-site facilities, technical and security teams.
• Manage planned and reactive maintenance and service contracts.
• Ensure health, safety and statutory compliance across premises.
• Control facilities budgets, purchasing and minor works projects.
• Supervise building security, presentation and day-to-day site operations.
• Coordinate room/equipment/resource management for teaching and events.

Skills

Team leadership

Budget management

Maintenance

Health & safety

Contractor management

Job description

Facilities Manager - Nottingham

Salary: £35,000 | Full-time | Access Creative College

About The Role

Access Creative College is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Facilities Manager to join our Nottingham campus.

Our campus is a vibrant environment where students develop their skills across games, music and media, with specialist facilities including recording studios, live performance spaces, rehearsal rooms and creative technology labs.

As Facilities Manager, you’ll play a key role in making sure these spaces are safe, secure, well-maintained and ready for students and staff to get the most from them.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll lead the day-to-day facilities operation across the Nottingham campus, working closely with our central Estates and Facilities teams. Your role will include:

• Leading and supporting the on-site facilities, technical and security teams.
• Managing planned and reactive maintenance, contractors and service contracts.
• Ensuring the campus meets health, safety and statutory compliance requirements.
• Managing facilities budgets, purchasing and minor works projects.
• Overseeing building security, presentation and day-to-day site operations.
• Managing rooms, equipment and resources to support teaching, events and student activities.
• Identifying opportunities to improve the campus and enhance the student experience.

About You

You’ll be an experienced Facilities Manager who enjoys working in a busy, varied and people-focused environment. You’ll be confident managing teams, contractors and suppliers, with experience of maintenance, compliance, budgets and delivering change.

Most importantly, you’ll be someone who builds great relationships, takes pride in high standards and enjoys making things work better.

If you’re looking for a role where your work directly contributes to an inspiring learning environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Who are we?

We are Access Creative College, formerly known as Access to Music, and we were founded in 1992. We're an Ofsted-inspected provider that reaches every corner of the country, with 7 campuses and over 2,500 students nationwide. We're proud to have achieved the national benchmark for education quality, recognised across the vast majority of our provision - Ofsted's 'Expected Standard' under the new inspection framework. We are part of Access Education Group, which boasts 32 campuses nationwide with over 5,000 students & apprentices across Access Creative College, dBs Institute (Higher Education) & Access Sport College.

What we offer?

• Generous Holiday Allocation
• Wellbeing Benefits: Health Cash Plan, Doctorline GP Service, Employee Assistance Programme, Access to Counselling and Cycle to Work
• Staff Discounts & Benefits: access to Accolade, our benefits platform which offers discounts at over 800 retailers!
• Paid Leave: Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Sick pay.

A full job description and person specification is available for download alongside our full benefits booklet.

Diversity and open expression are fundamental to creativity. We are committed to promoting a culture of diversity and inclusivity for all our employees and potential employees.

DBS Checks: Enhanced DBS clearance will be required.