Senior Engineering Manager
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Times are changing here at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals! We need you to come and help us evolve our forward-thinking and innovative Engineering Management Team.
As Senior Engineering Manager, you'll need to have both the experience and skills to navigate our complex state of the art facilities whilst also maintaining our older estates, which come with challenges of their own. There's 172,000 square metres of it, but if you're up to the challenge, it's an extremely rewarding role where no two days are the same and you will be part of a fantastic team. You have the opportunity to come in and make a difference through the changes you identify and will be involved in projects and activity which see us safely support future generations to come.
We promote and encourage professional development which allows for those with the relevant experience to join us and continue with their career development through education and training.
Main duties of the job
You'll lead our in-house maintenance team with overall responsibility for managing the Engineering Department, ensuring all building services and equipment are compliant with statutory legislation and guidance. Our team consists of Mechanical / Electrical / Plumbing trades supported via Engineering Managers, all of whom are in-house and directly employed NHS staff. We are also supported via external contracts with specialist providers where necessary.
Your strong, consistent background will really help here to ensure you can lead and support the team ensuring clear communication, engagement and continued professional development of staff through performance management and training.
This is not a job for the many, but for the right person this job is perfect. Combining your effective skills, experience and attributes to help support the NHS strive for excellence in our services both now and in the future.
It goes without saying you'll need to be able to demonstrate previous experience in planning and managing maintenance of building services in large complex buildings.
You will work 37.5 hours a week Monday to Friday; though there are on call duties to offer support to on-site staff out of hours. On call payments of approximately will be in addition to your basic salary. This post comes with all the usual benefits of working within the NHS which includes an excellent pension and 27 day holiday entitlement to start.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, and/or Charter Status or equivalent within a relevant Building Services or Engineering professional body
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience equivalent to the above
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Certificate in NHS Management
- Authorised Person training/qualification in specialist engineering services.
- Membership of appropriate Professional organisation
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a similar role within an Estates or Facilities team.
- Demonstrable experience of having managed teams, operational budgets and contracts.
- Expert technical understanding of the range of highly specialist services and equipment found within acute hospital setting.
Desirable
- 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
About the employer
Try as we might, we just cannot cram everything into one advert, so we really encourage you to get in touch to fid out more. Lee Taylor, Assistant Director of Estates really welcomes you to contact him to arrange to come and visit or have an informal chat lee.taylor@lthtr.nhs.uk
We have nearly 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 and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.