Facilities Team Member

Join our facilities team and play a vital role in maintaining safe, clean, and welcoming living spaces, where your skills keep our student community thriving every day.

Location: Sheffield

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week,working 5 days out of 7,between the hours of 8am and 8pm. Weekends will be required on a rota basis.

Salary: Competitive + bonus + benefits

Essential: A full UK driving license

As a Facilities Team Member, you`ll play a key part in creating safe, welcoming, and well-maintained spaces that help our students feel at home and thrive. You`ll work closely with your Facilities Team, peers and residents, resolving maintenance issues, responding to health and safety needs, and supporting a high-quality living environment. Every day is different, whether you`re fixing a door, responding to an urgent call, or simply checking in with students. Your attention to detail and commitment to our values will help build a positive community where everyone belongs.

Your Background

You don`t need to come from one set path, what matters most is capability and mindset. We`re looking for someone who can:

• Bring Strong Multi, Trade Skills
• Confidently turn their hand to a wide range of maintenance tasks across multiple disciplines.
• Work independently with minimal supervision and deliver high`quality craftsmanship.
• Take responsibility for diagnosing problems and finding effective solutions.

Work Smart With Digital Systems

• Confidently use PDAs, apps, or digital scheduling systems to manage daily workloads.
• Keep accurate maintenance records and follow digital processes consistently.

Demonstrate the Right Attitude

• Curious, adaptable, and always willing to learn new skills or ways of working.
• Positive, proactive, and motivated to support both students and colleagues.
• Reliable, with a strong sense of ownership and pride in keeping buildings safe and operational.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Hold a Valid UK driver`s license - essential for traveling between sites.
• Good technical maintenance skills - including joinery, plastering, basic domestic plumbing, and completing like-for-like electrical changes with attention to safety and proper documentation.
• Knowledge and adherence to Health and Safety legislation - ensuring a safe working environment and compliance with legal standards. "The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."
• Experience in general maintenance and customer-facing roles - demonstrating the ability to work effectively while delivering top customer service.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills - capable of addressing maintenance issues efficiently and interacting professionally with stakeholders and colleagues

Why it`s great to work with US!

In this values-led organisation, you`ll do work that makes a difference, helping to shape welcoming, vibrant communities where students can thrive. Whether this is your first step or your next one, we`ll help you build skills, confidence and a career you`re proud of.

We believe that everyone thrives when they`re able to bring the best version of themselves to work. So, alongside a competitive, we`ve built a culture and a reward package to support you in bringing your full, authentic self to work, including:

• A performance-related bonus paid twice a year
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy up to 5 extra days and earn up to 5 additional days for long service (FTE equivalent)
• A generous pension scheme where contributions between 4% and 11% depending o how much you save
• Life assurance worth 4 times your salary
• Share save scheme giving you access to purchase Unite Students shares at a discounted rate
• Enhanced Family Leave - including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Medicash (Health Cash Plan) - access to claim back the cost of routine medical care, such as dental, optical, physio, etc.
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to ensure that you`re supported as much as possible when you need it
• Free volunteering day per year to make a difference!
• Access to our online platform that provides access to a range of retail and hospitality services at a discounted premium

There`s even more to enjoy - find the full benefits package on our careers page.

Alongside all these great benefits to support you, we also want to ensure that we`re supporting your family too. You`ll also have access to 20% student rent at any of our direct let properties for your children, siblings, their children, or any student of depends on you!

Once you`ve joined US, you`ll also gain access to an extensive suite of essential learning to get you ready to take on your day to day, as well as wider catalogue to explore and elevate yourself and your career!

If you`re expecting ordinary, then think again. We`re US, we`re different - and we`re proud of it. How far you could go? Join US and find out.