Engineering Manager

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

Band 7

Job overview

Are you a motivated, 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.
• A 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?

• Make 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. 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. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

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. 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. 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. 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

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience in Healthcare Engineering
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• 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

• 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 in-depth knowledge of managing complex Engineering Building Services.
• 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

Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we’re looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received so it would be best to apply as soon as you can. We’ll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.

To support you in your application process we’ve created a What we can offer you guide that shows what you can expect when you join our hospitals. The guide includes links to our strategic aims and objectives as well as our values, development support and rewards and benefits.

We recognise that the recruitment process may present barriers for some and you may need personal adjustments to enable you to participate in our recruitment process. Please make contact with the recruitment team at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

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Supporting Information

The supporting information section is an opportunity for you to showcase how your qualifications, knowledge, skill and experiences align with the requirements and criteria outlined in the job description and person.

Our recruiting managers score applications based on the criteria listed in the person specification. They will be looking for evidence of how you meet these criteria. To increase your chances of securing an interview, provide examples of how you have applied your skills and knowledge in real-life situations.

Working Smarter pledge

We offer a variety of flexible working options and wellbeing support to enable our people to find and maintain the right work-life balance.

Secondments

If you are applying for a secondment role please ensure you have agreement from your current line manager prior to attending an interview.

Disclosure and Barring Service checks

If the role you’ve applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this on your behalf and the cost will be recovered from your salary.

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.

Name: Lee Taylor

Job title: Assistant Director of Estates Engineering

Email address:

Telephone number: 017721 521809

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.

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