Site Manager - Full-time

Copperfield Academy, Gravesend

• Ref:KCC886-2024-293S
• Posted:20/05/2026
• Pay:KSG Entry - KSG Top (£32,264 - £39,760 Annually)
• Start Date:September 2026
• App Close Date:12/06/2026 at 23:45
• Interviews:Week commencing 6th July 2026

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Are you an experienced and proactive Site Manager looking for a rewarding role where you can make a real difference every day? Copperfield Academy are seeking a dedicated and skilled professional to take responsibility for the management, maintenance and safety of our school site. This is a key role in ensuring that our children learn in a clean, safe and welcoming environment.

About the Role

The Site Manager will take overall responsibility for the day to day management, maintenance, security and cleanliness of the school buildings and grounds, ensuring the site is maintained to a high standard. This includes overseeing contractors, supervising premises staff, carrying out repairs, and ensuring full compliance with health and safety requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring the school buildings and grounds are clean, tidy and well maintained
• Implementing daily housekeeping and health & safety routines
• Carrying out minor repairs, maintenance and DIY tasks across the site
• Monitoring cleaning standards and supervising cleaning staff as required
• Managing contractors and overseeing small maintenance projects, including obtaining quotes and monitoring work
• Conducting regular checks, inspections and statutory compliance tasks (e.g. fire alarms, emergency lighting, water hygiene, asbestos, PAT testing)
• Ensuring safe access to the school during adverse weather conditions such as snow, ice or flooding
• Maintaining security of the site, including opening/locking the school and responding to emergency call-outs as a keyholder
• Managing energy usage, recording utilities readings and monitoring consumption
• Providing porterage, setting up rooms for events and ensuring deliveries are received and distributed efficiently

What We’re Looking For

We are seeking someone who is:

• Experienced in site management, ideally within a school or similar setting
• Skilled in general maintenance, repairs and use of tools/equipment
• Knowledgeable about health & safety, including CoSHH, manual handling, Legionella and asbestos regulations
• Able to supervise staff and work effectively with contractors
• Physically capable of carrying out the demands of the role, including lifting and manual tasks
• Organised, proactive and able to prioritise workload in a busy environment
• Committed to maintaining a safe, secure and positive environment for children and staff

Information about the school

Copperfield is an old and long-established Northfleet School, having opened as Dover Road School in 1904.

Increasing success in recent years has meant we are fast becoming a very popular school with local families, and we currently have the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren here of former pupils. We are known for extending a warm welcome to families that are new to Gravesend and to many families new to the UK.

As part of the nationwide REAch2 Academy Trust, leaders and staff at Copperfield are committed to working hard to ensure it is a happy school where pupils of all ages thoroughly enjoy their learning and being at school. We consider ourselves to be a supportive extended family of, and for, all our families that is able to meet the needs of the most-able and the most-challenged.

It is now formally recognised that Copperfield Academy is a good school, and a vibrant school. Classrooms are calm and purposeful places, where pupils learn in a safe atmosphere. Leaders are determined that every pupil’s experience, regardless of their individual needs, is a positive and successful one. As a result, pupils flourish and thrive.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Mrs S Ismajli
• Address:Dover Road East, Northfleet , Gravesend, Kent, DA11 0RB
• Telephone: (01474) 352488
• Email: office@copperfield.kent.sch.uk

Fax: (01474 352413)

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Application Essentials
• Site Manager JD & PS