Team Member: Housekeeping 80-100 %

Department of Operations and Technology, Facility Services Division
Start of employment: immediately or by arrangement
The University of Bern educates over 19,400 students and employs more than 8,000 staff across around 150 institutes as well as the central administration. It uses a highly diverse spatial infrastructure spread over approximately 130 properties for these activities. The Department of Operations and Technology is responsible for the efficient and economical operation of buildings.

The Facility Services division – divided into housekeeping teams, gardening, and logistics – ensures smooth and trouble-free building and university operations on site with its extensive range of services. To complete our three housekeeping teams, we are looking for experienced and motivated professionals who take pride and joy in providing professional and reliable services.

• Ensuring the agreed standards for building operations (building cleaning, waste disposal, minor maintenance, building security, event management, small relocations, access systems, etc.)
• Proper operation of building technical systems and troubleshooting; especially in the Muesmatt housekeeping team with highly installed laboratory buildings
• As a service-oriented contact person on site, receiving operational orders and concerns from users and independently resolving or forwarding them where possible
• Weekly on-call duty in rotation
• 5-day workweek even for part-time positions

• Completed vocational training with a federal certificate of competence (EFZ) in the fields of building technology HVAC, electrical engineering, or facility maintenance. Further training desired.
• Experience in housekeeping for medium to large properties with demanding building technology
• Manual skills and high reliability in independent work as well as teamwork
• Good IT user skills with Office programs and building automation are an advantage; experience with ticketing systems and CAFM systems (Planon) desired.
• High flexibility to cover site-related operating hours in the housekeeping team
• Good German language skills in spoken and written form

• Responsible, varied work content in a demanding environment
• Currently, we are looking for motivated employees for our housekeeping teams:
• Appropriate onboarding, salary according to cantonal guidelines, and progressive social benefits
• Opportunities for further training
• Access to university offerings such as university sports, catering, parking

Are you motivated to take on this service-oriented combination of housekeeping, technical maintenance, and support with joy as an exciting challenge? Then we look forward to receiving your electronic application with the usual documents.