Maintenance Manager
| Posting date: | 16 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 October 2025 |
| Location: | LN6 3QN |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | The Willows School Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Title: School Maintenance Manager
Your key responsibilities will include:
Responsibility:
On-site coordination
• Ensure acceptable standards of work are completed, prioritising work, liaising with the headteacher and school business manager (on appointment) to ensure that duties are completed.
• Ensure site security and safety during school opening hours.
• Liaise with contractors, the headteacher/school business manager, teaching staff and other site support staff.
• Complete audits and site inspections and complete reports. (Health and Safety, COSHH)
• Communicate effectively with the use of e-mailing and completion of site forms.
Janitorial
• Responsible for the building and site security including unlocking and locking of the site, setting of alarms and responding to out of hours call out.
• Ensuring the tidiness and safety of the site, including litter picking, rubbish removal and clearing of leaves. Checking the safety of external areas and school equipment and the removal of dangerous material and objects.
• Ensuring that weekly fire alarm tests are complete and that all fire lights are working.
• Checking and replacing internal and external lighting as required.
• Provide access for site visitors and oversee the safety of staff, visitors and contractors.
• Daily setting out of furniture to support the school operations and lettings functions.
• Reporting, carrying out and progressing repairs and other maintenance related work.
• Checking the quality of contractor work and signing off contractor visit reports.
• Dealing with school letting requests, complaints and preparing after lettings reports.
• Receipt of and checking of deliveries. Distribution to the relevant internal locations.
• Movement of furniture and equipment within the school.
• Clearing of snow and gritting of pathways.
Maintenance Duties
• Undertake minor building repairs and maintenance work.
• Carpentry – Fitting white board and notice boards, replacing door and window furniture.
• Plumbing – Repair of leaking taps and pipes, fitting of toilet fixtures, clearing of blocked drains, channels and toilets.
• General – Minor plaster repairs, minor flooring repairs, painting and decorating, graffiti removal, replacement of fixtures and fittings, assembly of furniture and shelf fitting, fence and path repairs, temporary glazing repairs.
• Identification and sourcing of spare parts and materials for ordering.
• Ensure adequate stock of spare parts hardware and materiel.
• Minor grounds maintenance, assist with setting up of portable facilities, collecting broken glass and clearing leaves and litter from gullies and guttering.
Cleaning Duties
• Assisting the school cleaning team when necessary with carrying out their duties.
• Tidying of rooms and emptying of bins following after school activities and lettings.
• Emptying of external bins.
• Collection of recycling.
• Removal of graffiti
• Ensuring cleaning resources are ordered via procurement
• Preparing for weekly collection of waste bins and sanitary bins.
Monitoring
• Carrying out internal and external school inspections and audits for condition and safety.
• Completion of statutory inspections, testing and recording.
• Contractor’s safe working and satisfactory completion of contractors work. Any other duties
• Assist with emergency procedures.
• Along with the rest of the team, support out of hours emergencies for safety/security reasons.
• Provide assistance with general enquiries relating to the site.
• Carry out project works during school holidays as instructed by the headteacher.
• Under the instruction and direction of the headteacher to safely drive the school’s minibus and ensure that it is ready and safe for school use on a daily basis.
• Any other site support duties that are in line with the job purpose and grade.
Training expectations:
• To make a commitment to your own professional development, undertaking training that is identified through appraisal and the school development plan
• To participate in appropriate professional development including adhering to the principle of my appraisal.
• To undertake regular training and implement school policies and procedures including:
o Child Protection Training
o SEND Specific Training
o First Aid Training
o Health and Safety
o Fire Safety
o Risk Assessment
o COSHH
Safeguarding
• Work in line with statutory safeguarding guidance (e.g. Keeping Children Safe in Education, Prevent) and our safeguarding and child protection policies
• Promote the safeguarding of all pupils in the school
• To report any safeguarding concerns to the DSL and/or DDSL and record on MyConcern.
All staff are required to follow school policies and the staff code of conduct.
Please note, this is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. It is not a comprehensive list of all tasks that the Maintenance Manager will carry out. The postholder may be required to do other duties appropriate to the level of the role, as directed by the Headteacher or line manager.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This role is subject to references and an enhanced DBS check.
Your key responsibilities will include:
Responsibility:
On-site coordination
• Ensure acceptable standards of work are completed, prioritising work, liaising with the headteacher and school business manager (on appointment) to ensure that duties are completed.
• Ensure site security and safety during school opening hours.
• Liaise with contractors, the headteacher/school business manager, teaching staff and other site support staff.
• Complete audits and site inspections and complete reports. (Health and Safety, COSHH)
• Communicate effectively with the use of e-mailing and completion of site forms.
Janitorial
• Responsible for the building and site security including unlocking and locking of the site, setting of alarms and responding to out of hours call out.
• Ensuring the tidiness and safety of the site, including litter picking, rubbish removal and clearing of leaves. Checking the safety of external areas and school equipment and the removal of dangerous material and objects.
• Ensuring that weekly fire alarm tests are complete and that all fire lights are working.
• Checking and replacing internal and external lighting as required.
• Provide access for site visitors and oversee the safety of staff, visitors and contractors.
• Daily setting out of furniture to support the school operations and lettings functions.
• Reporting, carrying out and progressing repairs and other maintenance related work.
• Checking the quality of contractor work and signing off contractor visit reports.
• Dealing with school letting requests, complaints and preparing after lettings reports.
• Receipt of and checking of deliveries. Distribution to the relevant internal locations.
• Movement of furniture and equipment within the school.
• Clearing of snow and gritting of pathways.
Maintenance Duties
• Undertake minor building repairs and maintenance work.
• Carpentry – Fitting white board and notice boards, replacing door and window furniture.
• Plumbing – Repair of leaking taps and pipes, fitting of toilet fixtures, clearing of blocked drains, channels and toilets.
• General – Minor plaster repairs, minor flooring repairs, painting and decorating, graffiti removal, replacement of fixtures and fittings, assembly of furniture and shelf fitting, fence and path repairs, temporary glazing repairs.
• Identification and sourcing of spare parts and materials for ordering.
• Ensure adequate stock of spare parts hardware and materiel.
• Minor grounds maintenance, assist with setting up of portable facilities, collecting broken glass and clearing leaves and litter from gullies and guttering.
Cleaning Duties
• Assisting the school cleaning team when necessary with carrying out their duties.
• Tidying of rooms and emptying of bins following after school activities and lettings.
• Emptying of external bins.
• Collection of recycling.
• Removal of graffiti
• Ensuring cleaning resources are ordered via procurement
• Preparing for weekly collection of waste bins and sanitary bins.
Monitoring
• Carrying out internal and external school inspections and audits for condition and safety.
• Completion of statutory inspections, testing and recording.
• Contractor’s safe working and satisfactory completion of contractors work. Any other duties
• Assist with emergency procedures.
• Along with the rest of the team, support out of hours emergencies for safety/security reasons.
• Provide assistance with general enquiries relating to the site.
• Carry out project works during school holidays as instructed by the headteacher.
• Under the instruction and direction of the headteacher to safely drive the school’s minibus and ensure that it is ready and safe for school use on a daily basis.
• Any other site support duties that are in line with the job purpose and grade.
Training expectations:
• To make a commitment to your own professional development, undertaking training that is identified through appraisal and the school development plan
• To participate in appropriate professional development including adhering to the principle of my appraisal.
• To undertake regular training and implement school policies and procedures including:
o Child Protection Training
o SEND Specific Training
o First Aid Training
o Health and Safety
o Fire Safety
o Risk Assessment
o COSHH
Safeguarding
• Work in line with statutory safeguarding guidance (e.g. Keeping Children Safe in Education, Prevent) and our safeguarding and child protection policies
• Promote the safeguarding of all pupils in the school
• To report any safeguarding concerns to the DSL and/or DDSL and record on MyConcern.
All staff are required to follow school policies and the staff code of conduct.
Please note, this is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. It is not a comprehensive list of all tasks that the Maintenance Manager will carry out. The postholder may be required to do other duties appropriate to the level of the role, as directed by the Headteacher or line manager.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This role is subject to references and an enhanced DBS check.