Site Manager

Job description / Role

Job overview

We are seeking to employ a new site manager to be part of delivering our vision by ensuring our buildings and facilities are clean, safe and fit for purpose. We are looking for a site manager with exceptionally high standards who takes pride in keeping buildings safe, clean and running like clockwork.

The successful candidate will be self-directed in noticing where things need attention and proactive in improving our buildings and facilities with a ‘can do’ attitude. We are looking for a hands-on, proactive site manager to join our friendly school team.

Our new site manager will have a key role in ensuring our pupils and staff have a secure, well-maintained environment to learn and thrive. Our ideal candidate should be highly organised and ensure that statutory safety checks are always carried out promptly and effectively, keeping regular logs to audit that relevant checks have been carried out.

This role is crucial to the educational success of our pupils because without our facilities we cannot ensure they learn. Our new site manager will understand their important role in educating children and be highly motivated to deliver on it.

The successful candidate will be:

• An experienced site manager or someone with relevant facilities management experience
• Resilient, passionate, ambitious and ready to take responsibility for our buildings and facilities
• Highly organised, self-directed, reliable and dependable
• Have a range of practical skills at least of the standard of a competent ‘DIYer’ and be ready to use them to help keep our building working well
• Able to work with and coordinate contractors ensuring that they work safely, to specification and timescales, holding them accountable where they do not with a high degree of independence
• Work with our office manager to develop and build positive relationships with our lettings customers and other important stakeholders
• Trustworthy with a genuine commitment to changing lives

We can offer you:

• Strong senior leadership with a focused strategic direction
• High quality CPD including an excellent induction package
• An enabling ‘can do, let's give it a go’ culture
• Support and development and opportunities to work across the Amadeus Primary Academies Trust

About Castilion Primary School

Castilion is a popular, supportive and friendly school in North Thamesmead. We are on a journey of improvement. The school is committed to equality and diversity in employment practice and service delivery.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure and other employment checks.

Our vision to provide this exceptional education requires exceptional business leadership to ensure that our school has everything it needs to function at the highest level. Like us, you will be innovative, hardworking, passionate, supportive and open to new ideas. You should have experience of working in the education sector, and ideally have experience of working in, and leading a busy team and environment.

About Amadeus Primary Academies Trust

Amadeus Primary Academies Trust is made up of six likeminded, successful primary schools working together to build on their shared outstanding practice and support each other in the common goal of improving teaching and learning.

Your application

To apply for this vacancy please submit an online application through the appropriate channels.

Closing date for applications is 08 October 2025. Paper applications or CVs will not be accepted.

References will be requested for those shortlisted only and prior to interview, please ensure you provide details of two referees on your application.

Only those shortlisted for interview will be contacted.

This post is considered to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the code of practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The school therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the person specification. These will be applied during the recruitment, selection and probationary stages.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure and other employment checks.

The school is committed to equality and diversity in employment practice and service delivery.