Job summary
- Main area
- Estates and Facilities
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 176-C-7419276
- Employer
- North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hinchingbrooke Hospital
- Town
- Huntingdon
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum +on call
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Estates Engineer - Mechanical
Band 7
Job overview
The Estates Engineer (Mechanical) is the senior estates professional responsible to the Senior Engineer for the overall leadership and performance of mechanical & building fabrics engineering building services. Responsible for ensuring that Mechanical & fabrics engineering maintenance, including contract/capital work, is carried out to appropriate standards and specifications
Main duties of the job
Responsible for addressing any non-compliance with any legal, statutory and mandatory regulations in respect of the Estate.
Ensures that critical plant equipment and systems are available at all times and establishes contingency plans to be available in the event of failure.
Is responsible for the Building Management System updating and monitoring, making additions, deletions or other changes as necessary.
Undertakes Estates condition survey’s, specifications, commissioning and supervision of maintenance related M&E and building works.
Assist with building and maintaining resilience into all aspects of emergency preparedness by developing existing arrangements and creating new strategies and plans as required. Ensures the organisation can respond appropriately and as required to major incidents along with business continuity situations that maintain critical services against a wide range of abnormal events.
Adept at exchanging maintenance, technical project-related information with specialists, non-specialists, proven track record of successful negotiations with contractors, suppliers etc.
Working for our organisation
Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust’s redeployment process.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Estates Engineer (Mechanical Operations) ensures that the Trust’s Estate is managed safely and cost effectively within statutory requirements including Trust property and acts as the Authorised Person in relation to specific responsibilities such as Ventilation Systems, Medical Gases and Water Systems.
The Estates Engineer (Mechanical) will be responsible, as the AP for Ventilation services & water responsible person on behalf of the Trust. This will require a positive and imaginative approach in matters regarding the strategic development and maintenance of the systems.
The high workload and responsibility of the post make this a physically demanding role, requiring good time and resource management skills to enable coping with the pressure. To this end there must be no extracurricular external or Trust activity that could divert the role away from the daily commitments.
Person specification
Education & Qualification
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent
- Mechanical, Electrical or Building engineering degree level Qualification
- Track record of Estates Management in a health care or related organisation
- Evidence of ongoing personal and technical development
Desirable criteria
- Corporate membership of relevant professional body
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- At least four years’ experience working in a health care/public service/armed forces environment with an Estatesbackground
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Arunas Paulauskas
- Job title
- Head of Estates
- Email address
- [email protected]
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