School Facilities Manager

Protocol Education Limited; Dover; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Protocol Education Limited is recruiting experienced School Facilities Manager / Premises Manager for a primary school in London (E14). You will handle day-to-day site management, safety compliance, and contractor oversight within a busy educational setting.

Role is full-time with a 3-month initial contract and potential temp-to-perm. Start date is imminent and immediate availability is preferred.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Facilities Manager, Premises Manager, Site Manager or similar.
• Experience in a school or educational setting preferred.
• Strong knowledge of health & safety and statutory compliance.
• Experience managing contractors and maintenance programmes.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.
• Enhanced DBS (Child Workforce) or willingness to obtain one immediately.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the day-to-day management and maintenance of the school site.
• Ensuring health & safety and statutory compliance requirements are met.
• Managing fire safety, legionella, asbestos, PAT and other compliance areas.
• Coordinating planned and reactive maintenance.
• Managing contractors and external suppliers.
• Taking responsibility for site security, opening and locking up.
• Managing and supporting cleaning and site staff.
• Ensuring the school environment is safe, secure and well maintained.
• Working independently and responding confidently to issues as they arise.

Skills

Facilities management

Health & safety

Contract management

Communication

Education

Facilities management qualification

Job description

URGENT: School Facilities Manager – London E14

We are urgently seeking an experienced School Facilities Manager / Premises Manager to join a Primary School in Tower Hamlets.

Start date: Thursday 8th October 2026

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced facilities or premises professional to step into a key role within a welcoming primary school of approximately 330 pupils, based in a refurbished Victorian building.

Role Details

• Position: School Facilities Manager / Premises Manager
• Location:E14
• Contract: Initially 3 months, with potential temp-to-perm for the right candidate
• Start: Thursday 8th October
• Hours: Full-time, 6:30am – 2:30pm, Monday to Friday
• Pay: Competitive, dependent on experience

Key Responsibilities

• Overseeing the day-to-day management and maintenance of the school site
• Ensuring health & safety and statutory compliance requirements are met
• Managing fire safety, legionella, asbestos, PAT and other compliance areas
• Coordinating planned and reactive maintenance
• Managing contractors and external suppliers
• Taking responsibility for site security, opening and locking up
• Managing and supporting cleaning and site staff
• Ensuring the school environment is safe, secure and well maintained
• Working independently and responding confidently to issues as they arise

We're Looking For

• Proven experience as a Facilities Manager, Premises Manager, Site Manager or similar
• Ideally, previous experience working within a school or educational setting
• Strong knowledge of health & safety and statutory compliance
• Experience managing contractors and maintenance programmes
• Excellent organisational and communication skills
• Reliable, proactive and able to work with minimal supervision
• Enhanced DBS (Child Workforce) or willingness to obtain one immediately

Given the urgent start date, we are particularly keen to hear from candidates who are immediately available and able to interview at short notice.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
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