£24K/yr to £97K/yr
City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Permanent, Variable

Facilities Coordinator

Posted by BDO UK LLP.

Ideas | People | Trust

We're BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today's changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain's economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high-growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We'll broaden your horizons

Supporting all of our BDO offices, our Property and Facilities team provides everything we need to guarantee our people a safe, efficient, and environmentally-friendly workplace. They ensure that all of our offices use the latest systems and services, enabling seamless collaboration and consistency across our firm. They play a key role in helping us to evolve – in terms of hardware and infrastructure – and they have a uniquely tangible effect on the offices they work with. As part of this forward-thinking and collaborative team, you'll travel to our offices across the UK to make sure BDO is a brilliant place to work - for your colleagues and for you.

We'll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You'll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO's partners to help businesses effectively. You'll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

Responsibilities:

  • Assist with the provision of an efficient, effective and professional facilities and administrative support service
  • Support the Operations Manager in the smooth running of the office (general maintenance, working environment and Health & Safety) to maintain a safe, clean and tidy work environment

Requirements:

  • Have knowledge of Facilities Management processes (preferable)
  • Have previous experience of working within a high profile corporate environment
  • Have previous experience in Health & Safety or willingness to undertake training
  • Well presented and confident with communication. Recognises that different people require different approaches and adjusts style appropriately
  • Ability to adapt to new experiences including learning new skills or systems in order to provide help during busy periods
  • Use initiative to find tasks to complete and catch up on when in quiet periods
  • Pro-active and hands on – happy to support other team members
  • IT Skills, Outlook, Excel, Word

You'll be able to be yourself; we'll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We're committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we'll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We're in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO's core values and we're proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we'll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs. Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you'll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we've invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO's people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we'll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you'll never stop learning at BDO.

We're looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we're always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.

We've got a clear purpose, and we're confident in our future, because we're adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.

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