Site Manager | Highly Regarded School | Hackney

We require a highly organized proactive and safety-conscious Site Manager to oversee the comprehensive facilities management operational security and physical maintenance of our school campus. Operating within an ambitious inclusive secondary academy in the heart of East London the successful candidate will take lead responsibility for statutory compliance contractor management health and safety execution and planned preventative maintenance (PPM) ensuring an immaculate secure and inspiring learning environment for all pupils staff and visitors.

Our academy operates as a proud community-focused secondary provider dedicated to raising academic standards celebrating diversity and serving a vibrant inner-london borough. The campus features an architectural blend of historic structures and modern high-spec learning facilities including specialized science labs creative arts studios and extensive community sports provisions. Our leadership team prioritizes a clean secure and highly functional campus as a prerequisite for academic success providing the site team with robust administrative backing clear operational lines and a supportive collaborative professional culture.

• Statutory Compliance & Health & Safety: Lead on all aspects of health and safety legislation maintaining immaculate compliance logs for fire safety legionella testing asbestos monitoring gas safety and electrical testing (PAT) in strict accordance with HSE guidelines.

• Planned Maintenance & Repairs (PPM): Develop execute and monitor a rigorous planned preventative maintenance schedule alongside managing reactive repairs utilizing a hands-on approach to carry out minor fabric repairs plumbing carpentry and redecoration tasks.

• Contractor Procurement & Oversight: Source brief and supervise external contractors and specialists ensuring all works are completed to a premium standard represent rigorous value for money and strictly adhere to safe working practices and school safeguarding protocols.

• Campus Security & Asset Management: Take overall responsibility for the physical security of the school site acting as the primary keyholder for opening and closing routines managing advanced CCTV and access control systems and responding to out-of-hours emergency alarm activations.

• Lettings Logistics & Cleanliness: Oversee the operational logistics for school events parents evenings and community evening/weekend lettings. Manage the performance of the cleaning and caretaking team ensuring the highest standards of presentation and hygiene are maintained across all internal blocks and external grounds.

• Qualifications: A strong background in facilities management building estate control or a skilled trade (such as carpentry plumbing or electrical work). Recognized qualifications in health and safety management (such as IOSH NEBOSH or equivalent facilities certifications) are highly desirable.

• Operational Capability: Proven experience managing physical site operations mechanical and electrical systems and compliance frameworks within an educational public sector or high-volume commercial setting. Advanced digital literacy for utilizing computer-aided facilities management (CAFM) software is essential.

• Resilient & Solutions-Driven Ethos: An unwavering commitment to operational excellence demonstrating the exceptional organizational control analytical problem-solving skills and calm authority required to handle competing physical demands and emergency situations in a fast-paced urban school environment.

• Inner-London Urban Regeneration & Sustainable Infrastructure: Based in the dynamic trend-setting borough of Hackney the school capitalizes on a world-class metropolitan identity defined by rapid architectural modernization tech-sector expansion and vibrant multicultural heritage. The campus operates within an urban landscape focused heavily on sustainable construction energy efficiency initiatives and green city planning providing the Site Manager with a sophisticated environment to pioneer carbon-reduction strategies smart-building systems management and modern waste-reduction operations.

• Connectivity & Infrastructure: The campus benefits from premium London transport infrastructure offering straightforward commuting links across East and North London. Public transit networks operate flawlessly utilizing extensive Transport for London (TfL) bus networks alongside comprehensive London Overground routes with nearby interchanges including Hackney Central Hackney Downs and Dalston Junction providing high-frequency rapid rail transit connecting the school directly to Stratford Highbury & Islington Liverpool Street and the wider metropolitan network.

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