Graduate Assistant Facilities Management Consultant: Immediate Start

Application Deadline: 30 September 2025

Department: FM

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: G&T London

Description

About Gardiner & Theobald LLP

G&T is an independent construction and property consultancy working across all sectors of the built environment.

Our diverse workforce is bound together by the five core values we live by:

Independence
Reputation
Progression
Ethical Thinking
Engagement

Our people are some of the most respected and highly trained in the industry. With a commitment to continuous improvement and lifelong learning G&T will enable you to achieve your goals, both professionally and personally.

About The Facilities & Asset Management Advisory Team

The G&T Facilities & Asset Management Advisory team provides a range of specialist independent advice to clients to improve the value and performance of their built asset management and FM functions for their existing property portfolios, as well as providing specialist operational input into the briefing, design, construction and operation of refurbishment and new build projects. This also includes the provision of a life cycle costing service.

Our capabilities can:

Positively impact core organisational objectives including client satisfaction, talent attraction and retention, wellbeing, productivity, social value including community engagement and environmental performance and improve governance and risk management
Optimise what are typically the second highest overhead costs for organisations, to deliver the right services to the right standard at the right price
Align the organisation’s built assets and support services to organisational strategy including workplace and workforce strategy
Optimise the value of built assets
Improve the operational and commercial outcomes for refurbishment and new build projects.
Our services also include the provision of a range of specialist life cycle cost advice to developers, constructors, occupiers, funders, SPVs, and operators of new build and existing facilities. We work with our clients to develop / understand their life cycle cost objectives and tailor our services accordingly, ranging from benchmarking for strategic business cases to detailed as-built life cycle replacement and maintenance cost plans. We specialise in representing clients who have a long-term interest in new facilities in the design development process, helping to define operating cost targets, brief design teams, estimate operating costs and working with design teams to optimise operating costs alongside construction cost targets.

Our life cycle service includes:

Improving the operational and life cycle cost performance of new facilities
FM & Life Cycle Design Briefs & Target Setting & Tracking
Life cycle replacement & FM cost benchmarking & estimation
Life cycle cost design options & value engineering appraisals

Team environment

You will be joining a team led by one of G&T’s equity partners, with a high emphasis placed on collaboration, leveraging the skills and experience of team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences to deliver the best possible outcomes for our clients. The Partners in the team are highly supportive in the management and development of the team, ensuring that Career Development Plans are in place, and undertaking monthly 1 to 1’s to provide regular contact.

The opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity to join the team to play a role in the delivery of our FM consultancy commissions, and particularly in the delivery of our life cycle commissions. You will support in providing best practice professional consultancy advice, including life cycle related technical advice to our clients, in line with our corporate values.

We have invested significantly in proprietary tools and processes to deliver our services and are now looking to leverage this investment to increase our business in this area. You will have the opportunity to support the growth of our business through building excellent relationships externally and internally.

FM consultancy, including life cycle consultancy, provides a great career opportunity in an area with high demand, allowing the employee to develop specialist skills as part of the wider strategic asset management capability.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities

You will provide a supporting role to other team members on a range of FM consultancy engagements, whose purpose is to:

Plan, manage and deliver a range of FM consultancy and life cycle cost appointments, ensuring our services are delivered to agreed timescales.
Follow G&T’s business management system and ensure the correct use of the specific service delivery toolkits and other processes.
Ensure that all services are delivered in line with our fee proposals, raising any issues or impacting our commercial position with the Project Manager.
Assist in maximising the profitability of appointments through the use of the most productive methods of working whilst maintaining high standards of outputs.

Additionally, you shall:

Ensure all G&T mandatory training modules remain up to date, e.g. Anti-Bribery training.
Pro-actively identify risks to G&T arising from the delivery of client appointments and raising these with the Project Manager.
Pro-actively identify opportunities to improve the groups service delivery toolkits and discuss these with Line Manager.
Remain up to date with developments in the industry and best practices to help maintain G&T at the forefront of consultancy support in the field of life cycle modelling.

Relationships

Direct report to the Associate Director whose remit includes the lifecycle discipline.
Working collaboratively with all members of the wider team.
Working collaboratively with client Project & Design Team members to deliver the required objectives for each appointment.

Qualifications & Memberships
May be a member of, or working towards membership of a relevant industry body such as RICS, CIBSE, IWFM, CIOB, Institute of Asset Management etc.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

2.1 or above in your degree
Experience in preparing analysis and reports
Excellent working knowledge of current IT systems
Understand the importance of client care & building relationships
Excellent communication skills
Trustworthy and reliable
Ability to prioritise work efficiently
Ability to work to deadlines
Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
Proactive and flexible approach to different situations
Dedication and commitment
Desire to learn
Genuine interest in construction and facilities management

Please note the following when applying for this role:

We are unable to support/sponsor individuals who require a work permit to work in the UK for our early talent roles.

We recruit on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close applications for this role if all positions have been filled ahead of the date advertised.

Due to the large number of duplicate applications received for early talent roles at G&T, we are only able to screen one application per candidate each academic year. If more than one application is submitted by the same person we will only be able to respond to the first one received.

Key Responsibilities

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

About Gardiner and Theobald LLP