Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 438-PB2611
- Employer
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chorley and South Ribble Hospital
- Town
- Chorley
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum, Pro Rata + On Call
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/03/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/04/2025
Employer heading
Engineering Manager
Band 7
Job overview
Are you aÌýmotivated, skilled, and passionate Mechanical Engineering professional looking for your next challenge? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, high-impact healthcare environment where your expertise truly makes a difference? If so, we want to hear from you!
What We’re Looking For:
A self-starter with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
Ìý´¡ proactive problem-solver who thrives under pressure.
A professional with hands-on experience in a large organisation’s Mechanical Engineering systems.
Someone ready to step up and be part of our out-of-hours on-call service (with additional payments for on-call and overtime).
Why Join Us?
ÌýMake an impact: Your work directly supports critical healthcare services.
Career growth: Work in a dynamic environment with opportunities to develop and progress.
Competitive rewards: On-call & overtime payments in addition to your salary.
Team spirit: Join a supportive and skilled Estates Engineering team dedicated to excellence.
If you're ready to bring your expertise, enthusiasm, and commitment to a role that truly matters, apply today!
Main duties of the job
As the Operational Engineering Manager, you will lead the operation and management of Mechanical Systems across our hospital estate, ensuring they run efficiently and effectively. You will oversee both specialist contractors and our dedicated in-house engineering team, maintaining high service standards. Your role will also involve managing the design and operation of Mechanical Engineering services across various environments while leveraging your broad knowledge of building services. Additionally, you will play a key role in maintaining and improving essential hospital infrastructure, creating a safe and efficient environment for both patients and staff.
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients.Ìý Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done.Ìý You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.Ìý
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties to include but not limited to:
- Management of the operational engineering department that provides essential Electrical/mechanical services, maintenance and technical support to a range of highly complex buildings, services and equipment that is the Trust’s estate.Ìý Ensuring that all work undertaken is compliant with relevant legislation and guidance including NHS HTM’s, HBN’s, British Standards, Building Regulations, etc.
- Manage specialist engineering systems including acting as Authorised Person, for various specialist services as required by Department of Health Guidance, i.e. HTM’s Med Gas/Electrical LV/Water(Legionella)/Ventilation.
- Arranging service interruptions, in connection with clinical and non-clinical staff within the Trust, ensuring all contingencies have been identified and covered, supported by Risk Assessments, Method Statements appropriate Permit to Work Systems and current Health & Safety Legislation.
- Prepare reports as required for the Trust Board, senior managers.
- Manage the provision of contingency plans to meet emergency situations for engineering services, ensuring emergency plans as implemented are appropriate.
- Participate within estates on call system. To attend site as required working or providing supervision outside of normal working hours.
- Manage the design of new work, upgrades and modifications, utilising the Trust’s Tender or Competitive Quotation procedures.Ìý This includes arranging pre-contract meetings and applying budgetary control and producing tender documentation.
- Responsible for project management of schemes generated from within the Maintenance Department and at the request of the Director of Facilities and Services.
- Responsible for raising orders, ensuring that resources and materials are readily available for effective and efficient management of engineering services.
- Review available resources and incorporate changes made in line with value for money and audit recommendations.
- Budget holder for the department. Covers both pay and non-pay budgets for all operational engineering services. Ensuring compliance with Trust Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions.
- Obtain quotations/tenders involving selection of suppliers to enable production of purchase requisitions.Ìý Verify invoices, interim payments and final accounts for payment.
- Develop, maintain and review all planned preventative maintenance programmes on plant and equipment.
- Assist in the implementation and maintenance of an effective asset register/equipment database.
- Participate in the implementation and maintenance of an effective job recording and time accountability system.
- Ensure that an efficient and effective directly employed labour management system is in place and provide comparison with contract labour.
- Assist in the identification and preparation of technical and annual maintenance programmes of work.
- Ensure that sufficient financial controls are in place for all engineering maintenance services and that up-to-date records exist to properly control this function.
- Lead and motivate the Operational engineering teams to deliver an efficient and responsive service to departments across the Trust.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- • Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience in Healthcare Engineering
- • Evidence of continued professional development.
Desirable criteria
- • Master’s Degree / Corporate Chartered status in an appropriate subject or equivalent experience
- • Experience and in depth knowledge in managing complex NHS estates services in the acute sector
- • ILM / other management training
- • Authorised Person training/qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- • Fully conversant with statutory requirements, NHS Estates guidance, Codes of Practice and the requirements of Regulatory Bodies
- • Demonstrable experience of having managed teams, operational budgets and contracts
- • Expert technical understanding of the range of highly specialist services and equipment
- • Significant experience and an indepth knowledge of managing complex Engineering Building Services.
Desirable criteria
- • Estates experience within an Acute NHS healthcare environment
- • Experience of developing joint and collaborative working with local health and commercial partners
- • Experience of public sector procurement and tendering procedures
- • Knowledge of NHS procedures for the management of the estate and Health & Safety legislation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lee Taylor
- Job title
- Assistant Director of Estates Engineering
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 017721 521809
- Additional information
Please note the above number is for the Recruitment team for any general Recruitment queries. If you have any questions about the role please contact the manager via email and they will respond to you.Ìý
For any additional information regarding the posts, please email Larry Cottey [email protected]
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