Principal Engineer in Birmingham

Principal Engineer - Healthcare (Contract)

Location: Birmingham / Home-based, with regular travel across the North East, East Kilbride, London and Reading.

Hours of work: 40

Contract Type: Permanent

Job Description

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to provide senior technical leadership across our healthcare accounts, ensuring engineering systems, infrastructure and compliance frameworks meet statutory, safety, performance and contractual standards. This role plays a critical part in supporting safe patient care environments while delivering authoritative engineering guidance aligned to national NHS engineering governance and ISS technical standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical leadership across healthcare accounts, ensuring compliance with statutory, safety and contractual requirements.
• Interpret compliance gaps and develop rectification and recovery plans for Key Asset Performance Documents (KAPDs).
• Deliver engineering assurance reviews and agree action plans with Account Technical Leads and Key Account Directors.
• Lead operational technical investigations and provide clear, evidence-based outcomes.
• Produce high-quality engineering reports for SPVs, NHS Trusts and regulatory bodies.
• Challenge poor practice and enforce engineering discipline and Safe Systems of Work (SSOW).
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with SPVs, NHS estates teams and clinical stakeholders.
• Promote and sustain technical excellence across all healthcare engineering environments.
• Regular travel to client sites (car/car allowance provided).

Professional and Personal Competencies / Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status through a recognised institution (e.g., IMechE, IET, CIBSE, IHEEM).
• Strong experience working within healthcare engineering environments.
• Strong analytical skills, ability to assess risk, identify non-compliance and develop proportionate, compliant solutions.
• Ability to read, analyse and produce procedural and operational documentation.
• Proven capability to interpret NHS, governmental and technical regulations.
• Ability to explore complex situations, evaluate options and formulate effective plans that meet or exceed objectives.
• Must hold full UK driving licence.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.

If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team by emailing resourcing.teamuk.issworld.com.