Estates Team Leader
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Common Leys (Witney)
28/09/2025
Estates Team Leader
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The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.
Job details
Salary
£28,598 - £30,384 per annum
Contractual hours
37
Basis
Full time
Region
South
Package
The College offers excellent benefits as well as generous pension schemes and holiday.
Job category/type
Management
Date posted
04/09/2025
Job reference
AWC0001407
Job description
No candidate will meet every single desired qualification / criteria. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you
Salary: £28,598 - £30,384 per annum
Hours per week: 37
Weeks per Annum: 52
Working pattern: Monday to Thursday 7.5 hours per day, Friday 7 hours per day
Location: Common Leese Campus
Contract type: Permanent
Support the Estates Supervisor/Manager in ensuring the efficient day-to-day operation of the campus. This includes overseeing maintenance activities, ensuring statutory compliance checks are completed on schedule, and supervising the cleaning team to maintain high standards in line with agreed specifications.
Responsibility:
* Lead in the investigation and diagnosis of reported faults and implementing first fix solutions using internal resources prior to outsourcing/ escalating complicated repairs to external contractors.
* Lead in the maintenance and repairs of the college site, buildings, and grounds to the highest of standards including minor plumbing, joinery, electrical, and building projects, decoration, clearing drains, changing locks, connecting white goods etc.
* Monitoring performance and time keeping of the Caretaker and Cleaners, and where necessary escalating concerns to the Estates Supervisor.
* Responsible for the daily allocation of work to cleaners in response to business demands and be the first point of contact and arrange cover for absent colleagues.
* To actively contribute to ensuring customer expectations are met to a high standard by responding to calls on the Estates Helpdesk and feeding back to end users in a timely manner.
Essential Experience:
* A construction trade background/technical skills, knowledge, and demonstrable experience in general maintenance such as carpentry, plumbing etc., and be able to perform general maintenance to a high quality.
* Demonstrable previous experience of leading and motivating teams, taking charge of emergency situations and demonstrate the ability to implement and adhere to standards and procedures, in particular in relation to Health & Safety.
* Previous experience in managing/assisting with cleaning chemicals stock control, maintenance and repairs of cleaning equipment.
* Experience of operating fire alarm control and intruder alarm panels including deputising for managers in liaising with external agencies and emergency services.
* Experience of supervising maintenance contractors and outside agencies on site including checking risk assessments, permits to work, safe systems of work, receiving installations reports and signing off their works.
Desirable Experience:
* Level 3 qualification in a construction trade or BICs cleaning qualification or equivalent.
* First aid qualification/skills.
* Fully qualified driver with access to a car and able to travel between campuses.
Why Work With Us?
Excellent benefits for our employees including generous pension and holiday schemes (with potential Christmas closure days), continued professional development, flexible working options, corporate gym membership, cycle/tech scheme and much more.
Closing date: 28th September 2025 (Midnight)
* Abingdon and Witney College reserve the right to close all applications before posted closing date
AWC values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to safeguarding and expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all appointments are subject to satisfactory clearances including enhanced DBS checks.
Abingdon and Witney College are committed to safer recruitment practices. In addition to our pre-employment checks, we will conduct an online search. This includes checking Google main results feed as well as the 'News' and 'Images' tab. We will be checking for any publicly available information that suggests the applicant may not be suitable to work with children or young/vulnerable people or content that could potentially damage Abingdon and Witney College's reputation. This may include inappropriate posts, comments or images displaying evidence of offensive or inappropriate behaviour, jokes or language, discriminatory comments, inappropriate photos, drug or alcohol misuse.
Estates Team Leader