General Maintenance / Facilities Team Member - Circle Square

Bruntwood SciTech; Manchester; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Birthday off

Buy & sell holidays

Volunteer time

Sabbatical

Healthcare cash plan

Life assurance

Pension matching

Discounts & cashback

Enhanced parental leave

Learning loans

Job summary

Bruntwood Circle Square in Manchester is hiring a General Maintenance / Facilities Team Member. The role covers maintenance and caretaker duties across a group of buildings, with a 40-hour week (Mon-Fri, 07:00-16:00 or 09:00-18:00) and one in six Saturdays.

You will support meeting rooms, maintain common areas, and ensure safety and quality standards. The role emphasizes a proactive, collaborative approach within a welcoming environment.

Qualifications

• Can-do attitude and enthusiasm to adapt to changing daily tasks.
• Enjoys working as part of a collaborative team in a busy facilities environment.
• Training will be provided; prior maintenance experience is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high standards of presentation around building entrances, common areas, showers, toilets, lifts and corridors.
• Open and lock up buildings as required.
• Prepare meeting rooms and serviced spaces in advance for customers.
• Ensure vacant suites are checked and maintained to a high standard.
• Perform PPM activities including fire testing, water temperature checks and emergency lighting.
• Check that plant, equipment and fabric are functioning to deliver service standards.
• Carry out regular building standard checks and inspections.
• Monitor and progress jobs to completion.
• Respond promptly to health and safety concerns (training provided).

Skills

Can-do attitude

Team player

Maintenance experience beneficial

Job description

General Maintenance / Facilities Team Member - Circle Square

At Bruntwood, we're committed to offering more than just outstanding office, coworking, retail and lab spaces. Everything we do is tied into our vision of building vibrant communities, whilst providing businesses with the support and expertise they need to grow. We’re commercial property specialists operating across the UK.

Bruntwood own, develop, manage and maintain properties across England. Our focus is on 'Creating Thriving Cities' which is evident across our website, so have a look to gain more of a perspective on what we do, and how we operate.

Job purpose:

The General Maintenance Team Member works across a group of buildings, carrying out maintenance and caretaker duties to uphold the highest standards as part of Bruntwood’s service to their clients.

This role is advertised for 40 hours per week worked Monday to Friday in our lovely Circle Squarebuildings. Shift patterns will be predominantly 07:00-16:00 with some 09:00-18:00. You will be expected to work 1 in 6 Saturdays.

What you will be doing:

• Maintain high standards of presentation around the entrance and surrounding grounds to the building as well as all common parts including Showers, lifts, toilets and corridors
• Open and lock up of buildings where required
• Provide support for meeting rooms and serviced space by preparing rooms in advance for customers
• Ensure vacant suite checks are performed and suites are maintained to a high standard
• PPM’s including fire testing, Water temperature Checks and Emergency lighting.
• Ensure the effectiveness of all plant, equipment and fabric to deliver the required Customer Service and Operational Standards
• Complete regular building standard checks and inspections
• Monitor and complete jobs
• Positive Intervention - Health and safety immediate concerns. (training to be given)

What we are looking for:

• Ultimately we are looking for a 'can-do’ attitude. Someone who is enthusiastic and flexible, adapting to a role where no day is the same
• Someone who enjoys working as part of a team. We have a great working environment here at Bruntwood and therefore we are keen for people to join who want to be part of a collaborative, positive working environment
• Training will be provided on the role but any experience in maintenance would be beneficial but not a must

In addition to the salary shown you will be entitled to a number of other excellent benefits including:

• 28 days holiday plus you get your Birthday off work - and if that’s not enough you can also buy & sell holidays too
• 24 hours a year volunteer time - there are endless opportunities for you to get involved in supporting the causes that matter most to you
• Sabbatical of up to 12 months so you can take a career break after five years with us
• Healthcare cash plan for all colleagues, so you can claim back medical expenses like optical, dentist & physiotherapy. We also offer private healthcare cover on an opt in basis too
• Life assurance cover for all colleagues
• Up to 8% matched pension scheme
• Discounts & cashback at leading retailers
• Enhanced maternity / shared parental leave - 26 weeks fully paid leave
• Interest free learning loans to help you develop new skills

In addition to what to expect within the role and your benefits, it’s good to know that you’ll be working for a business that gives back - The Oglesby Charitable Trust has donated more than £25m since it started out in 2001. Supporting charities across Arts and Culture, Education, Environment, Medical Research and Social & Health Inequality.

Our operations team make up a huge part of our workforce. Therefore it's incredibly important to us that we recruit from diverse backgrounds to reflect the communities we operate in, and ultimately achieve our goal of creating thriving cities that are completely inclusive.

We're keen to see applications from diverse backgrounds and actively drive our selection process to be as inclusive as possible for interview.

We'll always do our best to accommodate any adjustments you need at interview. So please highlight this in your application form. If selected, we will get in touch and discuss this before your interview.