Maintenance Manager

Operational

Full-time, permanent

£33,482 – £39,355 plus £1,500 Oxford weighting

35 hours per week

Deadline: Tuesday 15 July 2025

The Maintenance Manager has responsibility for the maintenance and safety of all College premises. The post-holder will ensure that the College’s buildings, utilities, plant, machinery and equipment are properly maintained and conform with current regulations and recognised good practice.

The post-holder plays a key role in developing annual and long-term maintenance plans, and is responsible for implementing and managing projects within these plans. Alongside this, the post-holder will investigate and incorporate sustainable maintenance solutions to reduce carbon emissions and protect the College’s properties from forecast changing climate events.

The Maintenance Manager ensures that reactive maintenance tasks are correctly prioritised, engages contractors where appropriate, and monitors the quality of maintenance work to ensure the provision of an efficient, high quality and cost-effective maintenance service that meets customer needs.

The post-holder is responsible for ensuring that all maintenance work is carried out in strict compliance with all relevant Health and Safety legislation; monitoring and maintaining a health and safety regime consistent with legislative requirements and keeping staff up to date on all relevant Health and Safety issues.

The Maintenance Manager leads and line-manages the Maintenance Team – managing workloads, establishing priorities and ensuring that safe standard systems of work are in place, as well as managing performance, developing staff and ensuring training needs are met. Alongside this, the post-holder manages all maintenance contractors – obtaining quotations, ensuring statutory compliance, supervising work, and ensuring work orders and invoices are accurate.

To be successful in your application you will need previous experience in a similar role, including developing and implementing a long-term maintenance plan. Proven success in leading a small team, project management experience, and experience of appointing and dealing with contractors will be essential.

The successful candidate will have excellent knowledge of health and safety policies and practices (including COSHH, Working at Height and Manual Handling), as well as an awareness of the statutory ACOPs (including gas, electricity etc.) and an interest in investigating and incorporating sustainable options and solutions. You will need good IT skills, strong organisational and prioritisation skills, and good administrative skills. Effective communication and interpersonal skills, experience of managing departmental budgets, and a flexible approach to your work will be essential.

Familiarity with planning regulations, knowledge of building regulations, Chartered Institute of Building (or similar) membership and a Site Managers’ Safety Training Scheme Certification would be advantageous, as would sympathy with the values, ethos and objectives of a small, collegiate institution.

St Antony’s College is a lively community of students, Fellows and staff, providing a sense of belonging, mutual support, shared knowledge, and a feeling of identity and place. The College is the normal place of work for all College staff. The Maintenance Manager is a visible part of our College community, and will be based on the site at St Antony’s College, Woodstock Road, Oxford but will also maintain other College properties (all currently adjacent to the main College site, or within less than 10 minutes’ walking distance).

For more information, please read the attached job description.

Working at St Antony’s College

This is a permanent, full-time post (35 hours per week).

The office working hours are normally 9.00am to 5.00pm with an unpaid hour for lunch, over any five days out of seven. This will typically be Mondays to Fridays but will include weekend days on occasion.

The Maintenance Manager will be paid on the University grade 6 scale, currently £33,482 – £39,355 gross per annum plus £1,500 Oxford weighting.

There is a probationary period of six months.

We offer excellent employee benefits, including:

41 days’ (FTE) annual leave including bank/public holidays. It should be noted that holiday cannot normally be taken during term time and College staff work on bank holidays falling during term time;
Membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) pension scheme;
Free meals in College during normal working hours and when the Hall is open;
Access to a car parking space in the College’s grounds if one is available.

How to apply

Please send a completed application form by email to recruitment@sant.ox.ac.uk by 9am on Tuesday 15 July 2025.

Interviews are expected to be held in the week beginning Monday 28 July 2025.

Candidates will be shortlisted solely on the extent to which they meet the essential and desirable criteria of the person specification based on their application form. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

Any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and the right to work in the UK.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check and continued employment is dependent on the satisfactory results of any enhanced DBS check.

St Antony’s College is an equal opportunities employer. Applicants will be asked to complete a confidential and anonymous online monitoring survey, which is not seen by the selection panel.

A privacy notice for applicants and information about how we use your data can be found at https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/about-st-antonys/how-we-use-your-data

Published date: June 19, 2025