Facilities Coordinator

Access Further Education Ltd (Trading as Access Creative College); Bristol; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Holiday Allocation

Wellbeing Benefits

Staff Discounts & Benefits

Paid Leave: Enhanced Maternity, Pater.

Job summary

Access Creative College in Bristol is seeking an experienced Facilities Coordinator to manage day-to-day facilities operations across four Bristol campuses, ensuring safety, compliance and a welcoming environment for learning and creativity.

Reporting to the Facilities Manager, you will coordinate contractors, suppliers and internal teams while delivering excellent customer service to students and staff across multiple venues.

Qualifications

• Must be highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Practical, solutions-focused approach to problems.
• Confident coordinating contractors, suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and ownership of tasks.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Commitment to delivering high-quality, safe and compliant environments.
• Willingness to work across multiple campus locations.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day facilities operations across four Bristol campuses.
• Act as key on-site facilities contact across the estate.
• Ensure campuses are safe, compliant, secure, well-maintained and welcoming.
• Support the Facilities Manager and Area Facilities Manager.
• Liaise with contractors, suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain high standards of customer service for students and staff.

Skills

Highly organized

Strong communication

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Contractor coordination

Supplier coordination

Attention to detail

Independent worker

Customer service

Safety & compliance

Multi-campus capability

Job description

About the Role

Access Creative College has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and engaged Facilities Coordinator to join our Bristol Campus.

Our students benefit from high-quality, industry-focused facilities, including game development labs, Music and Media Mac labs, a fully equipped recording studio, live room, live performance space and rehearsal rooms. Maintaining these spaces to a high standard is essential to creating an outstanding environment for learning, creativity and development.

Reporting to the Facilities Manager, you will support the Area Facilities Manager in coordinating day-to-day facilities operations across four Bristol campuses for Access Creative College and dBs Institute. You will act as a key on-site facilities contact across the estate, helping to ensure our campuses are safe, compliant, secure, well-maintained and welcoming for students, staff and visitors.

You will be someone who:

• Is highly organised and able to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Has strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Takes a practical and solutions-focused approach to problem solving.
• Is confident coordinating contractors, suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Has excellent attention to detail and takes ownership of tasks.
• Can work independently while contributing effectively as part of a wider team.
• Is responsive, approachable and committed to delivering excellent customer service.
• Takes pride in maintaining safe, secure, compliant and high-quality environments.
• Is comfortable working across multiple campus locations.

Ready to make a difference?

If you’re an experienced facilities professional who thrives on variety, enjoys solving problems and takes pride in creating outstanding environments for people, 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.

All successful applicants will be subject to appropriate pre-employment safeguarding checks, including an enhanced DBS check where applicable to the role, satisfactory references and verification of qualifications and employment history.

Applicants should be aware that safeguarding is an integral part of working within our organisation. Our recruitment processes are designed to ensure that safeguarding remains at the heart of every appointment.