Facade Manager

Façade Manager – Temp/Perm – Edinburgh – Start ASAP

There’s currently a façade package in Edinburgh involving aluminium panelling, brickwork, stone restoration, pitched slate roofs and Kalzip… which means somewhere, right now, a site team is standing in the rain arguing about whose job it was to check a reveal detail before 400 panels turned up.

This project needs the person who walks towards those conversations rather than suddenly becoming “hard to get hold of”.

Main contractor - established 50+ years - delivering a large accommodation scheme in Edinburgh:

6 low/mid-rise blocks
600+ bedrooms
15 months remaining
Structural frame complete on 3 blocks
Steel frame works ongoing within the remaining 3 existing blocks
2 blocks currently at 1st fix / partition stage
Remaining blocks moving into 1st fix from JuneThe façade package includes:

Aluminium panelling
Brickwork
Large stone restoration package
Pitched slate roofs
Kalzip roofing systemThey’re looking for a proper Façade / Envelope / Externals Manager who:

Can commute easily to Edinburgh
Has decent longevity on the CV (not 14 employers since Covid)
Has worked on residential, hotel or student accommodation projects
Can take ownership of a block and see it through properly
Understands that “I’ll sort it” usually means you’re now solving 11 other problems nobody mentioned at the meetingYou’ll either take on a restoration block or a new build block and be trusted to run it like it’s your own.

Good contractor. Good people. Busy project. Plenty going on.

If interested - or if you know someone who enjoys scaffold stairs, weather apps and subcontractors saying “we’re basically finished” three weeks before they actually are - give me a shout.

Spencer Wade
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