Head of Engineering - NHS
Venn Group’s specialist Estates & Facilities team is recruiting for a Head of Engineering on behalf of a large NHS organisation. This senior leadership role offers an excellent opportunity to provide strategic and operational leadership across a complex healthcare estate, ensuring engineering services remain safe, compliant and fully supportive of frontline patient care.
The Role
You will be responsible for:
- Leading Mechanical, Electrical and Building Services engineering teams across the estate
- Ensuring compliance with statutory legislation, HTMs, HBNs, British Standards and Trust policies
- Overseeing planned preventative maintenance (PPM), reactive maintenance and engineering service delivery
- Managing critical infrastructure including electrical systems, medical gases, ventilation, water safety, pressure systems and fire systems
- Providing engineering expertise for capital projects, refurbishments, infrastructure upgrades and commissioning activities
- Leading engineering safety, permit-to-work systems, risk assessments and incident management
- Managing engineering risk registers, business continuity arrangements and resilience planning
- Monitoring engineering performance, compliance, maintenance backlogs and asset condition
- Managing budgets, expenditure and cost improvement programmes
- Leading and developing engineering managers, technical teams and specialist contractors
About You
- Degree, HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in Engineering or Building Services
- Professional membership with CIBSE, IET, IMechE or similar
- Significant Estates or Engineering Management experience, ideally within healthcare
- Strong knowledge of mechanical and electrical services and statutory compliance
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams, contractors and budgets
- Understanding of engineering governance and Authorised Person responsibilities
- Proven experience in asset management, capital projects and service improvement
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Strong leadership, judgement and problem-solving abilities
- Commitment to safety, compliance and patient care
Key Details
- Pay: £47.33 per hour via an umbrella company
- Location: Slough
- Contract: 6 months
- Start: ASAP
Why Consider This Role?
- Opportunity to lead engineering services across a complex healthcare estate
- Influence critical infrastructure supporting patient care
- Lead strategic investment and engineering improvement programmes
- Work closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation
- Play a key role in compliance, resilience and sustainability initiatives
Apply
To discuss this opportunity, contact Liz Levett-Millett at Venn Group or apply online.
Head of Engineering in Slough employer: Venn Group
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