School Maintenance Officer

Underwood West Academy; Crewe; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Blue Light Card

Job summary

Underwood West Academy is seeking a proactive Maintenance Officer to join our vibrant school community. You will help ensure the site is safe, clean and welcoming for children, staff, families and visitors, enabling excellent teaching, learning and wellbeing.

With support from the Site Manager, you will carry out maintenance tasks, assist with health & safety duties, and manage records digitally. The role requires initiative, reliability and good IT skills, with hours and weeks negotiable,

Qualifications

• Experience completing inspections, checks and monitoring reports.
• Good numeracy and literacy skills.
• Confidence using school software and digital reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the school building and grounds to a high standard.
• Assist with Health & Safety audits and risk mitigation.
• Manage records and data via the Trust compliance system (SmartLog).
• Liaise with contractors and oversee general maintenance tasks.
• Carry out basic plumbing, joinery and decor as required.

Skills

Health & Safety

Trade Skills

IT Skills

Education

Health & Safety qualification

Trade skills qualification

Tools

SmartLog

Job description

Underwood West Academy is seeking to appoint a proactive, and highly motivated Maintenance Officer to become a key part of our vibrant school community. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who takes pride in creating safe, inspiring, and inclusive environments where children can thrive.

Why This Role Matters

The Maintenance Officer plays a vital role in the life of our school. With support from our Site Manager, you will ensure our site is safe, secure, clean, and welcoming for children, staff, families, and visitors; enabling exceptional teaching, learning, and wellbeing.

You will assist the Site Manager with Health & Safety across the school and therefore you must be experienced in being proactive, using initiative and being vigilant in identifying and mitigating risk. The successful applicant will have a good level of numeracy and literacy and experience of completing inspections/checks/monitoring reports. These are all completed digitally in school, therefore confidence in using software is needed.

Key duties include being a key-holder, completing and updating reports, checking fire alarm points, monitoring water temperatures, checking equipment, snow clearance and gritting in bad weather, general maintenance jobs around the school and other duties as required.

The successful applicant will also be expected to carry out, to a high standard, simple plumbing repairs and basic joinery, repair of some equipment, decorating and some grounds maintenance.

Hours and working weeks are negotiable but will include securing the school at 6pm.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintain the school building and its grounds to a high standard and be able to organise tasks, prioritising the most important first.
• Health & Safety.
• Manage records, information, and data, via the Trust compliance system (SmartLog).
• General buildings improvement and maintenance.
• Liaising closely with contractors.
• Ensuring security, hygiene, maintenance and repairs within the buildings and school grounds are in good working order.

What we are looking for:

• Someone that is organised, and able to manage a varied workload.
• A highly motivated individual that is proactive, reliable and able to prioritise tasks and work with autonomy.
• Takes pride in upholding high standards across the school environment.
• Communicates well and works collaboratively with staff and external partners.
• Brings practical skills and/or relevant qualifications (e.g. health & safety, trade skills).
• Have good IT skills.
• Highly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, holding the strong expectation that all staff share this commitment too.

This is an excellent opportunity for a dedicated Maintenance Officer to join a successful, progressive and happy school.

In return, we can offer:

• A school community with a warm, positive, caring ethos
• Experience of working in a thriving, successful primary school
• Benefit from Blue Light Card offers

We are a member of The Aspire Multi Academy Trust and offer a mutually supportive ethos with excellent opportunities for professional development.

The school and the Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children. For all shortlisted candidates, reference checks and online searches will be completed prior to interview. All successful candidates are subject to satisfactory references, medical checks, right to work in UK and safeguarding checks (including enhanced DBS and a declaration of disqualification (Childcare Disqualification regulations 2009).

For further information regarding this role, please contact [e-mail].

We reserve the right to close this opportunity early due to high volumes of applicants.