Site Manager

Queen Mary's High School, Walsall, West Midlands, WS4 2AE

28 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  13 April 2026 at 10am

• Date listed

  16 March 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: £30,024.00 - £34,434.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 6 (SCP 15-23)

Site Manager job summary

Queen Mary’s High School - an Ofsted Outstanding (2021), high‑achieving, selective girls’ grammar school with a co‑educational Sixth Form - is seeking to appoint a dynamic, reliable and proactive Site Manager to join our vibrant and diverse school community.

This is an exciting opportunity for an organised, motivated and solutions‑focused individual to take a lead role in managing and maintaining our school estate, ensuring a safe, secure and welcoming environment for all students, staff and visitors.

About the Role

As our Site Manager, you will:

• Lead on all aspects of premises management, including maintenance, security, health & safety, and day‑to‑day facilities operations.
• Manage and develop the site team, ensuring high standards of service delivery.
• Oversee contractors and service providers, ensuring compliance with Trust procurement and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and implement planned maintenance schedules and contribute to long‑term estates planning.
• Lead on health and safety compliance, acting as the school’s designated “competent person”, maintaining risk assessments, and ensuring safe working practices.
• Support the delivery of school events and operational planning such as open evenings, examinations, and emergency procedures.
• Manage relevant budgets and provide reports as required.

The role reports directly to the Headteacher and works closely with the Estates & Facilities Manager for Queen Mary’s Grammar School.

What We’re Looking For

We welcome applications from candidates who are:

• Highly organised, self‑motivated and able to work on their own initiative.
• Strong communicators with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Able to lead, motivate and supervise a team.
• Experienced in premises or facilities management, planned maintenance and contractor oversight.
• Knowledgeable in health & safety regulations (IOSH/NEBOSH desirable).
• Committed to safeguarding, professional development, and the ethos and values of Queen Mary’s High School.

Experience within an educational environment or with Building Management Systems (BMS) is desirable but not essential.

Why Join Us?

At Queen Mary’s High School and The Mercian Trust, we offer:

• A friendly, committed and supportive staff team.
• Opportunities for professional development, including Trust‑wide CPD.
• Access to excellent employee benefits, including:
  • Free comprehensive health plan (UKHealthcare)
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Cycle to Work scheme

  You’ll be joining a forward‑thinking, ambitious, and community‑minded school where every day brings new opportunities to make a meaningful impact.

  Please note, we hold the right to close applications early.

  The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website. This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process.

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

We are committed to safeguarding at QMHS. Our school’s aims and vision statement very clearly states that we strive to ensure that the individual needs of all our highly able students are met. At QMHS and across the Mercian Trust we recognise that the emotional wellbeing and positive mental health of all members of the community is integral to our continued success. We have built and continue to strengthen a community of support for all stakeholders which includes pupils, staff and parents/carers.

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 Queen Mary's High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 944 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Queen Mary's High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/queen-mary-s-high-school

Queen Mary’s High School is built upon a well established history of success, shaping exceptional young women for young adulthood. We are one of the top performing state schools in the country, consistently maintaining a high position nationally for GCSE and A Level outcomes. We were inspected by Ofsted in October 2022 and are proud to have been judged as Outstanding in all aspects of our provision.

Today, there are more opportunities for young women to succeed in society than there have ever been before and we firmly believe that there is no limit to the personal, social and academic achievement that is possible for each and every one of our students.

We are a school community passionate about learning and in cultivating an exceptional educational environment in which our young people are enabled to be the very best version of themselves. Our school community is one in which our students are expertly equipped with not only knowledge and understanding but the skills, the attributes and expertise to achieve their ambitions, and to fully realise their potential.

Support, care, and guidance for each young person is at our core and the Queen Mary’s High School values of responsibility, honesty, integrity, respect and tolerance underpin all that we as a school community stand for. We ask that parents help us in supporting their child in demonstrating these values each day, in school, at home and online. Only through working together in partnership will we ensure that we are all, together, incredibly proud of their achievements, progress and growth.

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