School Facilities Manager

Protocol Education; Greater London; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Protocol Education is seeking an experienced School Facilities Manager / Premises Manager for a primary school in Tower Hamlets, London E14. The role is full-time with hours 6:30am–2:30pm, starting 8th October 2026, initially for 3 months with potential temp-to-perm for the right candidate.

Responsibilities include overseeing daily site maintenance, health and safety compliance, and managing contractors. DBS enhanced required or willingness to obtain; immediately available candidates are

Qualifications

• Proven experience as facilities manager or similar role.
• Experience in a school/educational setting preferred.
• Strong knowledge of health and safety and statutory compliance.
• Experience managing contractors and maintenance programmes.
• DBS check or willingness to obtain one.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day management and maintenance of the school site.
• Ensure health & safety and statutory compliance requirements are met.
• Manage fire safety, legionella, asbestos, PAT and other compliance areas.
• Coordinate planned and reactive maintenance and manage contractors.
• Ensure site security, opening and locking up, and support cleaning/site staff.

Skills

Facilities Manager

Premises Management

Health & Safety

Contractor Management

Site Security

DBS Enhanced

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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