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Estates Maintenance Manager
Lord Wandsworth College
Hampshire
£45,000-£50,000
Most maintenance managers keep estates running. Here’s your chance to help shape one.
Lord Wandsworth College is investing in its estate, its team and the way its maintenance function operates. This is an opportunity to take ownership of the day-to-day maintenance operation and help develop what comes next.
If you’re someone who spots what needs doing, takes ownership and sees things through, you’ll enjoy this role.
- Leadership Role: You’ll lead an in-house maintenance team looking after the College’s extensive built estate, including teaching and boarding facilities and 75 residential properties, all set within Lord Wandsworth’s 1,200-acre campus.
- Responsibilities:
- Oversee planned and reactive maintenance.
- Manage contractors.
- Support smaller refurbishment projects.
- Help the department become more proactive, with stronger systems, better forward planning and a clear focus on plant and servicing.
- Ensure problems are followed through and resolved.
- Team Development: You’ll have the opportunity to build the team around you. The department has been deliberately reshaped over the last three years. Stronger compliance, contractor management and helpdesk processes are now in place, with approval to grow the team further. You’ll have a say in who joins and how the team develops.
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This is, first and foremost, a maintenance leadership role. You’ll need to enjoy the detail: understanding plant, staying on top of servicing, spotting issues before they become problems and seeing them through to completion.
One of the College’s Waymarkers is Stewardship & Legacy, thinking carefully about what we create, what we look after and what we leave behind. You’ll be looking after an estate developed over generations while helping prepare it for those that follow.
Benefits
- Salary: £45,000 to £50,000
- Complimentary restaurant-quality meals
- 28 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
- Generous pension
- Family-friendly benefits
- Access to outstanding sports and leisure facilities
- Potential on-site accommodation (subject to availability)
- Investment in your development:
- Support with IOSH, Responsible Person training
- Professional membership
- Potentially a broader FM qualification
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Requirements
- Experience leading maintenance or estates teams in a large or complex environment.
- Practical understanding of hard FM, plant, servicing and health & safety.
- Effective communication skills.
- Ability to prioritise effectively.
- Enjoy developing people.
Note: This is a boarding school, so occasional weekend working is part of the role. We’re open about that because expectations should be clear from the outset.
Application
To apply, please send your CV to our retained recruitment consultant, Tom Morrison at Sielo Search via tom@sielosearch.com.
If you’d like to find out more before applying, Tom would be happy to arrange a confidential, informal conversation. Give him a call on 07537 162323 or send him an email to discuss the role, ask any questions and find out whether it could be the right next step for you.
Closing date: Friday 28th August, 5:00pm.
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