Facilities Management Graduate
15 days ago
Manchester
Facilities Management Graduate Salary £24,088 - Pay award pending (01/04/2026) Location Manchester, Didsbury Closing Date - Thursday 30th April Assessment Day - Late May 2026 Final Stage Interview - June 2026 Role Overview As a Facilities Management Graduate at Great Places, you’ll rotate across key operational teams to build a deep understanding of how our workplaces, properties, and services are managed, maintained, and improved. Across two years, you’ll take on real project responsibility, develop professional expertise, and grow into a workplace facilities management role where you’ll make a meaningful impact on our people, customers, and communities. What you’ll be doing as a Facilities Management Graduate at Great Places… • Developing Facilities Management expertise and management capabilities, • Spending your first year rotating through our Facilities Management, Estates, Grounds Maintenance, Repairs, and other core Head Office teams, • Learning how housing organisation operates their facilities management strategy from offices and workplace management to logistics and supply chain, • In your second year, you’ll develop into a role in workplace facilities management, • Taking on real project responsibility and make a tangible difference to our business, • Gaining exposure to a regional corporate property portfolio and learning the national Workplace Facilities Management operations inside-out, • Someone who wants to build a career with purpose, • A team player who brings a positive, helpful attitude, • Someone open to learning and developing their skills and experience, • A good listener who takes pride in detail and follow-through, • A degree (2:2 or above) in Quantity Surveying, Facilities/Building Management, Engineering or Business by September 2025 or graduated no earlier than September 2023, • To be legally entitled to work in the UK on a full-time basis, • A clean UK driving licence and access to a car, • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, • To be able to work as part of a team, as well as using your own initiative and time management skills to deliver tasks on time, • To be an enthusiastic self-starter with passion, resilience, and adaptability, • To be able to communicate confidently and effectively across all levels of the business, • Self-motivation and determination to succeed in a fast-paced, challenging environment, • To possess an aptitude for problem solving and creative thinking when approaching tasks., • Keen eye for detail and good organisational skills, • Experience of working in a customer focused environment, with a proven ability of delivering customer service, • Competent level of ICT skills including the full range of Microsoft applications, • Commitment to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist in the communities in which we work. We particularly value lived experience in social housing, • Commitment to work in partnership with others for the benefit of Great Places, • Commitment to completing all parts of the training programme, • Ability to work flexibly, • A fully accredited apprenticeship/ qualification plus additional short qualifications to aid in your development, • Full equipment to help you perform best at your role, • Dedicated time each week for studying and learning, • Mentorship and line management from senior professionals, • A warm, inclusive team where your ideas and growth matter