Facilities Management Graduate
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The Vacancy
Facilities Management Graduate
Key Dates
- 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
- Understanding how a successful Facilities Management team operates and what skills you need to thrive
What We are looking for
- 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
- Someone who is motivated by improving people’s lives
What you’ll need….
- 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
- Due to the nature of the role this predominantly in-office, in-person role, you will need to live within a commutable distance from our Head Office in Didsbury, Manchester
How we support you and your career at Great Places….
- 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
- Opportunities to shadow across the business and contribute to the social housing sector
- Access to our Growing Greatness talent programme including workshops, networks, and development activities
- Support from our Emerging Talent and Development Specialist which will include reviews, check-ins and the opportunity to discuss your progress
The Company
Great Places Housing Group exists to improve the lives of the people living in our 25,000 homes across the North West and Yorkshire. We are much more than just a landlord, providing a wide-range of services and promoting partnership work to create vibrant, sustainable communities.
You can find details of our story, our vision and our values here.
At Great Places, we are committed to using inclusive hiring practices. By embracing diversity and difference, we enrich our teams with varied perspectives, drive, and innovation to create an environment in which everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures and are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone can be their authentic self; building a workforce that truly reflects the diverse communities we serve.
We want to create a recruitment process that allows you to perform at your best! Should you need any support or information throughout the process, please reach out to our recruitment team at recruitment@greatplaces.org.uk.
The Benefits
The Benefits
Pension
WPA
The Market Place
Annual Leave
Reward & Recognition
Help with transport
For more information about our benefits and rewards, visit our careers page.
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