Estates Manager

Duties and Responsibilities:

1.

Ensuring

compliance with relevant legislation and school policy in all aspects of

health and safety, including asbestos, COSHH, fire, security, electrics.

Maintaining appropriate records.

2.

Proactive

management of the school site and grounds, ensuring they are maintained to a

high standard and in a safe and healthy condition.

3.

Creation

and maintenance of a rolling premises development plan with clearly

identified priorities, timescales and estimated costs.

4.

Line

management of the premises staff, ensuring continual coverage within specific

times during both term time and school holidays. Carrying out performance

management and ensuring that staff receive appropriate and adequate induction

and training.

5.

Procuring

and managing contracts to ensure that safety tests are carried out at the

requisite intervals including PAT, fire safety, gas safety, lift safety,

water safety and specialist teaching equipment.

6.

Maintenance

of premises budgets to ensure adequate stocks of caretaking supplies for

staff safety and maintenance tasks.

7.

Management

of the premises ticketing system, including responsibility for allocation of

tasks, communication and problem-solving.

8.

Line

management meetings with Caretakers and Cleaning Supervisor. With weekly meetings with the Director of

Finance & Resources.

9.

Review

school calendar to ensure all events are prepared for and resources in place.

Support site team in helping set up rooms for events, and clear up

afterwards.

10.

Key-holder

management and site security, being part of the team responding to emergency

call-outs as required. In this connection, the Estates Manager may be called

out in unsocial hours or at weekends to deal with security problems. To

attend to the opening and closing of the premises at designated times.

11.

Undertake

occasional letting duties: ensuring that the agreed user requirements are

fully met. To carry out security duties and associated clearing up.

12.

Manage all

closed periods to ensure that improvements and developments can be achieved

to time and to budget.

13.

Co-ordination,

oversight and monitoring of the performance of external contractors

14.

Manage the

safe and efficient operation of the school minibuses.

15.

Carry out

administrative processes relevant to the job.

16.

To

implement the school’s health and safety policy. Note and report as necessary

on matters affecting the health and safety of persons on site. As far as

possible to ensure compliance of all staff within health and safety

regulations.

17.

Support

with CIF bids and external grant applications.

General Responsibilities:

18.

To be

aware of and comply with all polici