Site Manager Facility Management 100%

About the job

Site Manager Facility Management 100%

Are buildings more than just the sum of their rooms to you? Help shape a university location at the Technikum Winterthur campus that enables education, research, and work at the highest level – with responsibility, commitment, and joy in service.

Department: Finance & Services

Start of work: from June 2026, by arrangement

For our Facility Management (FM) operations organization at the Winterthur location (Technikum Campus), we are looking for an experienced leader who enjoys close collaboration with the FM team, specialists, and users. In this management position, you will take responsibility for the following main tasks, which you will perform independently and with a high degree of personal responsibility:

• Ensuring professional facility services for our departments as internal customers
• Managing the building services with 7 employees as well as a construction-responsible project manager
• Direct contact person for our customers and suppliers on site
• Leading operational projects, participating in project teams, specialist groups, and development processes
• Controlling and monitoring external suppliers and service providers, especially cleaning providers
• Budgeting, personnel planning, and ongoing cost control
• Operation and preservation of the cantonal properties and facilities on the campus
• Active co-design of our FM operating model on the developing campus

To fulfill this demanding task, we expect a completed vocational training with advanced education in FM, e.g., as FM and Maintenance Manager (HF). You have entrepreneurial skills, several years of leadership experience, and solid knowledge in operating larger properties and areas. Confident handling of digital work and information systems helps you manage services efficiently and keep an overview.

Your strengths include a high degree of personal responsibility, teamwork, pronounced customer orientation, and a courteous, authentic demeanor. You also demonstrate a high level of organizational talent, solution orientation, and enthusiasm for innovation. This way, you represent our FM as a strong implementation service partner on site.

English skills and residence in the Winterthur region are advantageous.

We look forward to receiving your complete application documents.

The ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, with over 14,000 students and over 11,000 continuing education participants as well as around 3,700 employees, is one of the largest multi-disciplinary universities of applied sciences in Switzerland.

Our Facility Management, with over 80 employees, ensures reliable FM services at the three ZHAW locations. It provides the spatial infrastructure with around seventy buildings and develops it proactively.

ZHAW is committed to gender-mixed and diverse teams to promote equality, diversity, and innovation.

We offer university-appropriate working and employment conditions and actively promote the personnel development of our employees and managers. A detailed description of the benefits can be found on the "Working at ZHAW" website. Here are the main points:

Thomas Larcher

Head of Facility Management

Xenia Binner

Recruiting Manager