Senior Infrastructure Programme Manager (Engineering & Energy)

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the IC in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Programme Manager to lead the delivery of major engineering, energy and infrastructure programmes across our hospital estate.

Our Estates Redevelopment Team delivers complex capital projects that are critical to the future resilience, sustainability and operation of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust's estate. We are looking for a technical leader who can provide engineering oversight, programme leadership and operational integration across major infrastructure investments. Current projects include the reconfiguration and renewal of the high-voltage electrical infrastructure at Lewisham University Hospital and the decarbonisation and replacement of the Trust's ageing steam heating systems.

This is a client-side delivery role, requiring strong technical knowledge, programme management capability and stakeholder leadership. You will ensure projects are delivered safely and effectively within a live healthcare environment.

You will work closely with consultants, contractors, project managers, Estates teams, clinical leaders and senior Trust stakeholders from design development through construction, commissioning and operational handover.

This role would suit an experienced infrastructure, engineering or energy professional who enjoys working across technical, operational and commercial interfaces, and who can translate complex engineering projects into successful operational outcomes.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the day-to-day delivery of major engineering, energy and infrastructure programmes from business case to operational handover.
• Act as the Trust's lead client-side representative and intelligent client for major infrastructure projects.
• Coordinate consultants, contractors, project managers and technical advisers to ensure successful delivery.
• Manage the interface between project teams and hospital operations, ensuring clinical services remain safe and resilient throughout construction and commissioning activities.
• Plan and coordinate major outages, service transitions, commissioning activities and operational readiness processes.
• Work closely with Estates, clinical and operational teams to minimise disruption and ensure safe delivery.
• Lead technical reviews, stakeholder workshops and commissioning activities.
• Monitor programme risks, dependencies and interfaces, resolving issues and escalating decisions where required.
• Review and challenge technical proposals, designs and delivery strategies.
• Support the delivery of the Trust's estate transformation, resilience, sustainability and net zero objectives.
• Prepare programme reports, governance papers and briefings for senior stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight throughout project delivery, ensuring safe, effective and compliant implementation of major investments.
• Commercial and contractual management
• Contribute to the development of programme management, technical and operational readiness processes.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for the full detail of the position. For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Iona Norton.

Person specification

Qualifications / Training

• Masters degree in Engineering, Building Services, Energy, Construction, Infrastructure or related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• Chartered Engineer status, professional membership (IET, CIBSE, IHEEM, ICE or equivalent)
• Healthcare engineering qualifications

Experience

• Experience managing multidisciplinary engineering and delivery teams
• Experience coordinating multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups within large, complex capital programmes
• Experience acting as a client-side representative, intelligent client or programme delivery lead
• Experience of commissioning and operational handover
• Experience leading operational readiness activities for major infrastructure programmes
• Experience working with diverse range of contractors and consultants
• Experience delivering major electrical infrastructure, energy infrastructure or critical engineering systems
• Proven ability to manage complex technical stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrable leadership and influencing skills
• Experience contract managing high value contracts
• Experience of energy infrastructure and heat pump systems
• Experience of high voltage electrical infrastructure projects
• Experience acting as an Owner's Engineer or Intelligent Client representative
• Experience delivering projects on live operational sites

Special Knowledge / Expertise

• Understanding of major building and engineering infrastructure systems
• Strong knowledge of design, construction and commissioning processes
• Understanding of infrastructure risk management
• Understanding of different contract structures
• Able to operate effectively in a highly complex and changing environment
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capability
• Commitment to delivering safe, resilient and sustainable healthcare infrastructure
• Understanding of sustainability and decarbonisation principles, systems and strategies within major infrastructure programmes
• Knowledge of public procurement processes
• Experience supporting net zero or energy transition infrastructure programmes
• Ability to adopt a flexible approach to work
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to deal effectively and appropriately with people at all levels

Practical/Intellectual skills

• Ability to analyse complex engineering information
• Ability to challenge and review technical proposals
• Strong report writing and presentation skills
• Excellent planning and organisational capability
• Ability to prioritise workload and deliver under pressure

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.

Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

Use of AI in recruitment: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the initial review of applications against the essential criteria for this role. Where AI is used, it will support rather than replace human decision-making, and applications will remain subject to appropriate human review.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.