Site Maintenance Officer

Posting date:	18 December 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	17 January 2026
Location:	Stockport, SK8 4QX
Company:	inploi
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	75774174

Summary

Kingsway School
Foxland Road
Gatley
SK8 4QX
0161 428 7706

Post: Site Maintenance Officer
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week, full year
Details of the Role
Join Our School Team Where No Two Days Are the Same

Do you have a talent for fixing things?

If so, you might just be the person we need.

Reporting into the Facilities Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring a safe and fit purpose school premises for pupils, staff, visitors and volunteers to complete their day-to-day activities.

Key Duties will include:

To support the Facilities Department in ensuring that all School operations comply with relevant legislation including: The Health and Safety at Work Act, Building and Planning legislation and current environmental legislation.
To assist with the undertaking of routine building inspections in the School to detect and report any defects to the Facilities Manager/ Assistant Facilities Manager, recording as required all maintenance and Health & Safety compliance checks.
To assist in ensuring that the undertaking of the appropriate programme of repair and maintenance for the property and grounds are followed and all records are updated in a timely manner.
To act as a Facilities point of contact in the assistance of property & estate matters in support of the Headteacher, School Senior Leadership Team, staff and other external service providers.
To assist with the provision of security of the School site and emergency cover as and when required. This includes opening/closing the School at the start and finish of the day.
Assist with the management of External Service Contractors in line with contractual requirements and service level agreements ensuring the satisfactory undertaking by External Service Providers complies on all occasions with Trust Policies.

For full details, please refer to the full job description and person specification attached.

Please return applications to: recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk

About ELT
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 450 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.

As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.

Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
Exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
School improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
Opportunities for professional development and leadership
A celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.

All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

Closing date: Thursday 8th January 2026
Interviews: W/C 12th January 2026

Please note that this is a private organisation and the successful applicant will be employed by Education Learning Trust directly.

Supporting Documents

↗ ELT Application Form
↗ Person Specification
↗ Recruitment Privacy Notice

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