LORD
WANDSWORTH
COLLEGE
·HAMPSHIRE·
Lord Wandsworth College
Estates Technician
Candidate Pack
Role Profile
Directorate:
Estates
Responsible to:
Estates Maintenace Manager
Location:
On Campus
Contract:
Permanent, 40 hours per week, 5 in 7 contract
Salary:
£29,437 per annum
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 Technician plays a key role in supporting the safe, efficient, and compliant operation of the school estate across both sites. The role ensures the premises are well maintained, operationally effective, and meet all statutory and health & safety requirements, while providing flexible support across Estates and Operations as needed
The role is responsible for carrying out routine compliance checks, supporting statutory requirements, and undertaking planned and reactive maintenance tasks across the school estate.
It provides a flexible support function across Estates and Operations, assisting with maintenance, site management, and operational duties as required.
Role responsibilities
Compliance & Health and Safety
• Carry out routine compliance checks across the estate, including:
o Fire safety checks (weekly testing, escape routes, equipment checks)
o Legionella control measures (flushing, temperature checks, monitoring)
o Basic H&S inspections and reporting
• Maintain accurate records of all compliance activities
• Report issues promptly and ensure appropriate escalation
• Undertake fire door inspections following appropriate training
• Carry out minor remedial works relating to compliance where appropriate
Maintenance Support
• Assist the maintenance team with day-to-day tasks and minor works, including:
o Basic repairs
o Painting and decorating
o Minor carpentry and building works
o Gutter cleaning and external maintenance
Support planned and reactive maintenance activities
• Prepare areas for maintenance works and ensure safe working environments
Operational Support (Portering & Events)
Support the portering function as required, including:
o Event and function set-up and clear-down
o Movement of furniture and equipment
o Deliveries and site logistics
• Assist with transport duties where required (subject to licence)
• Provide general operational support across the estate during peak periods
• Support out-of-hours or weekend working where necessary (as part of rota)
• Contribute to a positive and proactive team culture
Person Specification
Essential
• Practical experience in a caretaking, maintenance, or similar role
• Basic understanding of Health & Safety requirements
Ability to carry out manual tasks and minor repairs
Good organisational skills and attention to detail
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Willingness to undertake training (e.g. fire door inspections, compliance checks)
• Full UK driving licence
Desirable
Experience working in a school or similar environment
• Knowledge of compliance areas such as fire safety or legionella
• Basic trade skills (e.g. painting, carpentry, general maintenance)
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.
Development & Training
• The role will be supported with appropriate training, including:
o Fire door inspection qualification
o Health & Safety and compliance training
o Ongoing development in maintenance and estates operations
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
This role profile is not exhaustive and will be subject to review. It may be amended to meet the changing needs of the College.
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 15th July 2026 with interviews taking place on 23rd July 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.