Estates Manager

Dean Trust Ardwick, Manchester, Lancashire, M13 0LF

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  26 November 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  12 November 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: 38,510.00 - 41,177.00

Estates Manager job summary

The Dean Trust is seeking an experienced Estate Manager to take operational responsibility for ensuring our school environments are safe, compliant, well maintained, and fit for purpose across Dean Trust Ardwick.

This is a critical role within The Dean Trust, providing strategic and operational leadership across the school site. You will oversee the day-to-day delivery of estates services, including planned and reactive maintenance, health and safety compliance, statutory testing, site security, and the effective management of the school estate team, premises and facilities.

Dean Trust Ardwick serves the community of Manchester and beyond. As part of our team you can contribute, collaborate and lead on many established areas that shape our school culture. Our school vision has been shaped by every member of our school community

Key responsibilities:

Lead daily premises and facilities operations ensuring school maintains high standards of safety, cleanliness, function, and presentation

Implement the Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedule carrying out and coordinating statutory inspections within mandatory time frames to achieve 100% completion metrics

Ensure all completed statutory compliance records, certifications, defect logs, and service reports are accurately uploaded to centralised digital Trust compliance platforms in a timely manner.

Prepare assigned school premises for internal and external Health & Safety audits, actively completing assigned remedial actions and risk control measures within agreed deadlines.

Supervise external contractors on site, verifying DBS checks, issuing permits to work, ensuring adherence to Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS), and managing site inductions.

Oversee key-holding, building opening/closing protocols, alarm systems, perimeter security, and access control across assigned sites to protect Trust assets.

 

For more information about the role please contact us on 01942 511987 or dtwoffice@deantrustwigan.co.uk.

Thank you again for your interest in working for The Dean Trust. We look forward to hearing from you.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer committed to ensuring inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates including those from underrepresented groups, and/or with protected characteristics.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Dean Trust Ardwick

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1329 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Dean Trust Ardwick website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dean-trust-ardwick

Dean Trust Ardwick opened in 2015 and are now a fully-fledged Year 7-11 school, serving over 1200 pupils, in the heart of the Ardwick and Longsight community. We pride ourselves on being a local school for local children, and since inception we have become the school of choice for families.

We exist to empower our pupils to find their purpose and thrive as citizens of the world. We provide a knowledge-rich curriculum which exposes pupils to powerful knowledge, places them on an ambitious pathway and develops the character traits needed to seize the opportunities that exist. Through finding their passions we enable pupils to make a positive difference to the world. Our core purpose is not merely finite ‘success’ for our pupils but for them to thrive - continually grow and flourish.

We are explicit about the culture we want to create and have clear ideas of the desired behaviours necessary for our pupils to succeed. At Dean Trust Ardwick, we maintain a relentless focus on the day-to-day actions, behaviours and routines within the school and adopt a disciplined approach to teaching pupils the right and successful ways to do things.

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