Estate Manager

Location: East London
Salary: £50,000 + Bonus
Working Pattern: Site-based, 40 hours pw Monday-Friday with rota-based on-call responsibilities

The Opportunity

One of Londons leading estates is seeking an experienced and highly capable Estate Manager to lead site-based estate and property management across residential buildings, car parks, landscaped areas and shared spaces.

This is a key leadership role within a fast-paced, resident-focused environment, responsible for ensuring service excellence, statutory compliance and high-quality estate presentation. You will oversee a team of Building Managers and operatives, manage contractors, and work closely with senior stakeholders to maintain the estates high operational standards.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a proactive and confident manager seeking a role with responsibility, autonomy and impact across a large, complex residential estate.

The Role

You will lead the day-to-day estate management operations, ensuring all buildings, public areas and infrastructure are safe, well-maintained and compliant. You will coordinate contractors, manage budgets, ensure health and safety adherence, and deliver a high standard of customer service to residents and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver consistently high service standards across the estate, ensuring all areas are presentable, well-maintained and fully operational.

• Support the Estate Director, Head of Estates, Operations & Contracts Manager and H&S Manager to meet Estate management objectives.

• Ensure lease obligations relating to Plot, Block and Estate Management are delivered.

• Line manage the Building Manager and operative team, including recruitment, training, rota planning, performance management and welfare.

• Provide timely updates on project progress, service delivery and budget status to stakeholders.

• Monitor expenditure, support monthly budget reviews and ensure cost control.

• Oversee health and safety practices, ensuring emergency procedures, safe working methods and building safety compliance.

• Conduct regular inspections and audits of internal and external estate areas, documenting findings and arranging prompt rectification of issues.

• Report and support investigations into H&S incidents, near misses and accidents.

• Arrange and supervise contractor attendance for repairs and maintenance; monitor contractor performance.

• Lead or support the tracing and resolution of water leaks, coordinating relevant parties.

• Manage emergency response plans, including leaks, power failures, security incidents and other critical events.

• Support disaster recovery, business continuity planning and emergency drills.

• Oversee stock levels for cleaning supplies, materials and consumables.

• Manage waste and recycling processes, ensuring timely removal of bulky waste.

• Raise work orders and support procurement activities.

• Deputise for other managers when required.

• Support ad hoc projects and additional duties as required

The Person

We are seeking a confident, organised and experienced manager with strong leadership qualities and excellent operational oversight.

You will have:

• Minimum 3 years' experience in large and complex building management

• Minimum 3 years' contractor management and quotation procurement experience.

• Minimum 3 years' experience in a management role overseeing a team.

• Budget management and expenditure monitoring experience.

• Strong understanding of building safety regulations and implementation in day-to-day operations.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to remain reactive in a fast-paced environment and manage changing priorities.

• Professional and polite manner, with strong customer-service skills.

• Willingness to join an out-of-hours on-call rota.

Property Management Recruitment
50 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8EA - Tel: 0207 436 0360