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Reports to: Director of Corporate Services

Hours: Full time (37.5hrs/week), permanent. Standard working hours are 09:00 – 17:30 Monday – Friday. Weekend work where required

Salary: £42,000 – £50,000 DOE

Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh’s Science Centre & Planetarium, is a national educational charity with a mission of empowering everyone with understanding and empathy for the Earth. We deliver this mission through our exhibition, planetarium and through our learning and engagement programmes in Edinburgh and nationally across Scotland. We have recently published a new 10-year strategic plan – From Beginning to Mend – with a series of strategic priorities including delivering outstanding science engagement and reaching more people in more ways.

Role Purpose:

Reporting to the Director of Corporate Services, this role will manage and coordinate all activities across Maintenance, Technical, Security and Cleaning as well as being the organisational lead for Health & Safety.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Health & Safety – Be the organisational lead for Health and Safety attending quarterly committee meetings. Conduct Health and Safety inductions, training, reporting and compliance checks. Audit departmental risk assessments and health and safety procedures. Act as point of contact for all H&S activities.

Support Building Services Departments – Work with the Security Supervisor, Cleaning, Maintenance & Technical Managers to ensure that the services provided by the departments are efficient and effective in delivering high standards throughout the centre at all times.

Training & Development – Support, develop and up-skill all teams within the Building Services department. Chair Bi-Weekly Building Services Meetings to ensure all departments are kept up to date with any ongoing activities

Budgeting – Monitor and oversee all Building Services expenditure and budgets. Respond and reprioritise expenditure as required.

Building Maintenance & Compliance – Monitor building repairs, maintenance and compliance requirements and report issues to Leadership.

Green Committee – Attend and support committee meetings to assist the organisation in achieving its environmental sustainability goals.

Essential skills

IOSH Managing Safely – You will have qualifications in Health & Safety

Building Experience – Strong knowledge of the operation, control and maintenance of building services plant and systems (HVAC/ MEP)

People management – You will have 3+ years as an effective as a line manager, ensuring colleagues are well supported, trained, motivated and maximising their potential on our behalf.

Martyn’s Law – Hold a working knowledge of Martyn’s Law and apply to our venue.
Budget management – You have experience monitoring budgets and managing delivery against defined budgetary levels.

Eye for detail – You will be professionally curious and always bringing a critical eye to every aspect of the building and our operations within it.

Belief in our Values and associated behaviours – We are proud to see Passion, Caring and Inclusive as three cross-cutting Values. You will bring these Values to life and encourage your colleagues to share them too to build a strong common culture.

Desirable skills

NEBOSH – National General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety

Trade Qualification – Be mechanically or electrically qualified or hold other relevant trade qualification

Passion for Dynamic Earth – We are keen for colleagues to value the public purpose of the Charity and be supportive of From Beginning to Mend, our ten-year strategy.

Belief in the importance of STEM – We are keen for colleagues to see science skills as the gateway to careers for the young learners we support, and for STEM to be a brilliant way to ensure Scotland has the skills to drive an effective society and economy.

Desire to build a professional network – We are keen for you to visit other attractions, know market trends and build a strong peer network where you can learn from others, and share knowledge too.

To apply please send a CV and cover letter to peopleandculture@dynamicearth.org.uk

Deadline for applications is 5pm on 11th July 2025

Application Deadline: Friday 11/07/2025