Facility Management for Primary School and Daycare St. Leonhard–Tschudiwies 100%

About the job

Your new role

As a facility manager, you take overall responsibility for the operation of the buildings of the primary school and daycare in the St. Leonhard-Tschudiwies district. You shape your area of responsibility with a high degree of independence and have a wide scope for action within the framework of the service mandate and the defined performance standards. For this, we are looking for a committed individual who takes responsibility, makes decisions, and motivates their team.

You are responsible for the entire building service of your facility. This includes cleaning, building maintenance, management of building technology, as well as ensuring safety and operation. In addition, you coordinate the procurement of consumables and structural maintenance. You also take on the role of safety officer (SiBe) for buildings.

In doing so, you lead a team of five employees both personnel-wise and administratively. Furthermore, you are responsible for the cost centre, including budget planning, adherence to budget guidelines, justification of deviations, and the application for supplementary credits.

As the central contact person for your facility, you promote open and goal-oriented communication. You represent your facility, in agreement, towards schools, users, and other internal and external stakeholders.

You also work closely with the central teams of the Infrastructure Education and Leisure (IBF) department and use their expertise and services purposefully to fulfil your tasks.

This position is for you if you

• have several years of professional and leadership experience and/or a completed vocational training, ideally as a specialist in operational maintenance EFZ with a focus on building services, as well as the federal specialist certificate as a caretaker.
• possess a strong customer and service orientation and place high value on quality.
• are an organisationally strong, structured, and administratively skilled individual who takes responsibility, makes independent decisions, and actively uses their scope of action.
• have pronounced methodological, social, and self-competencies, are communicative, empathetic, and enthusiastic, and appreciate dealing with different stakeholders.
• are open to change, enjoy exploring new paths, and act solution-oriented even in situations with not yet fully clarified framework conditions.
• have very good German language skills in spoken and written form, are proficient in common Microsoft Office applications as well as Teams, and hold a category B driving licence.

Good reasons to work for the City of St.Gallen:

Your department

The Infrastructure Education and Leisure (IBF) department is a dynamic, lean organisation with a flat hierarchy and a high degree of team autonomy. We meet each other at eye level across all functions. Around 180 employees work at IBF. The 18 facility teams are responsible for the operation of the facilities (school, daycare, sport). The facility teams are supported by 5 centrally organised specialist and support teams which accompany and assist in the areas of personnel, IT, procurement, spatial planning, leadership, organisation, and administration.

Our corporate culture

We give our teams the greatest possible freedom in work organisation. High autonomy does not mean lone wolf behaviour for us. We work in partnership, support each other, and share knowledge. We communicate transparently, are open to new ideas, and maintain respectful interaction. Lively, Honest, Together, Open: These four values form the basis for our collaboration and our dialogue with internal and external stakeholders.

What we offer

A highly meaningful task: You make an important contribution to ensuring that school, daycare, and sport function in the City of St.Gallen. We offer you a varied range of tasks with great scope for design and development potential. Our internal training programme supports you in your personal and professional development. Families receive a municipal family allowance, fathers benefit from a 20-day paternity leave. Five weeks of holiday are standard, from age 55 it is six weeks. The City of St.Gallen offers contemporary employment conditions.

Our selection process

If you have any questions, Andreas Horlacher, Head of Department IBF, telephone 071 224 53 12, will be happy to assist you. Have we piqued your interest? Then we look forward to your application. Please submit your complete dossier exclusively online.

We value diversity in all its forms and look forward to your perspective.