Estates Maintenance Manager
LORD
WANDSWORTH
COLLEGE
·HAMPSHIRE·
Lord Wandsworth College
Estates Maintenance Manager
Candidate Pack
Role Profile
Directorate:
Estates
Responsible to:
Director of Estates
Location:
Across the estate (working flexbily between LWC and St Neots)
Contract:
Permanent, 40 hours per week, 5 in 7 contract
Salary:
£45,000 – £55,000 per annum (dependent on experience)
Benefits
We offer a vast range of staff benefits including:
• Contributory pension scheme
• Fee remission for children
• Enhanced family friendly policies including support for emergency time off for dependants
State of the art, restaurant quality hot and cold food available (complimentary)
• Death in service scheme - 4 times your annual salary
Friends and Family referral scheme (£250 for each referral)
• Give as you earn and staff volunteering day
Use of wide-ranging school facilities - swimming pool, tennis, walks, trails etc
• Excellent social and sporting events for staff within the school
Role outline and purpose
The Estates Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading maintenance operations across the estate, ensuring that buildings and services are safe, compliant, and maintained to a high standard.
The role oversees in-house trades staff, delivers reactive and planned maintenance, and supports the delivery of minor works. It is central to ensuring a consistent and efficient approach to maintenance delivery, working flexibly across sites as required.
Role responsibilities
Maintenance Operations
• Lead day-to-day maintenance operations across the estate
• Manage and deploy trades staff effectively to meet operational needs
• Oversee reactive maintenance and ensure timely resolution of issues
Plan and deliver preventative maintenance programmes
Minor Works & Projects
Deliver minor works projects from scoping through to completion
• Support the planning and delivery of small to medium-scale improvement works
Ensure works are delivered safely, on time, and within budget
Team Leadership
Line manage and support in-house maintenance staff
• Allocate work effectively across the team
• Support development of skills and ensure high standards of workmanship
Compliance & Health & Safety
• Support delivery of estates-related compliance requirements
• Ensure maintenance activities are carried out safely and in line with regulations
• Work closely with compliance leads to address any issues or remedial actions
Contractor Management
• Manage contractors as required, including:
o Scoping works
o Monitoring delivery
o Ensuring quality and value for money
• Reduce reliance on external contractors through effective use of in-house resource
Operational Support
• Support wider estates and operational activities where required
• Contribute to out-of-hours support arrangements, including emergency call-out where necessary
Person Specification
Essential
• Strong practical experience in building maintenance and operations
• Experience managing or supervising maintenance teams
• Relevant qualification in a building, construction, or engineering discipline (or equivalent experience)
• Health & Safety qualification (e.g. IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent), or willingness to obtain
• Ability to diagnose issues and manage repairs effectively
Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
Ability to work independently and prioritise workload
Desirable
• Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. IWFM, CIOB)
Experience in a school or similar environment
Experience delivering minor works or small projects
• Knowledge of estates compliance requirements
Behaviours and competencies
• Demonstrate a commitment to the values of LWC schools.
Be proactive in matters relating to health and safety, child protection and safeguarding including the completion of all mandatory training modules.
• Ability to build effective relationships across the College including contractors, suppliers and advisors.
Ability to work on own initiative and problem solve.
Key Stakeholders
• Director of Estates
• Project Manager, Grounds Manager, Compliance and Minor Works Manager
• Estates and Operation teams
• Academic and Pastoral staff
• College Residents
• Senior Leadership Team
• Pupils
Lord Wandsworth College
A different kind of school for a wonderfully open world
Uncertainty is a gift to those with a wide perspective, an open mind and the space and the safety to explore. Our job is to widen students’ worlds so nothing is beyond their grasp.
We’ve been ‘widening worlds’ since 1922, when LWC was founded by Sydney Stern (Lord Wandsworth) to support orphans. In those days, this widening of worlds was very much a response to the fact that orphans’ worlds had contracted or collapsed very suddenly. The school expanded their opportunities, connecting them - via our vast acreage and farmland - with a path into agriculture.
These days, the future is far less known; vocations harder to predict. And so the need to widen worlds is more profound. We support and inspire students, around 700 of them, to be able to forge their own futures, each one more exciting and extraordinary than any goal they could have envisaged at the start. Wonderfully, our students’ successes make our world bigger too.
Appointment process and how to apply
Please apply via our LWC website using our recruitment portal.
The closing date for applications is midnight on Monday 25th May 2026 with interviews taking place on Thursday 4th June 2026.
Should you wish to discuss the role in strict confidence please feel free to contact Lidia Pocock, Director of Estates on pocockl@lordwandsworth.org.
We welcome people of all faiths and those that are committed to these values. We recognise that we have under-represented groups within our workforce. As part of our commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity we are actively encouraging applications from underrepresented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions and those with a lived experience of poverty as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. We are committed ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.
Appointments will be made subject to receipt of satisfactory references and enhanced DBS check. The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. The successful applicant will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check and references. We are an equal opportunities employer.
Lord Wandsworth College is a registered charity (Number: 1143359) providing outstanding caring education for boys and girls since 1922.