Job summary
- Main area
- Estates Engineering
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 326-8356769-BN
- Employer
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- East Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Redhill
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum plus high cost allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/11/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/12/2026
Employer heading
Estates Engineering Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Are you an experienced healthcare engineering professional looking to make a significant impact in a busy acute NHS Trust?
We are seeking an exceptional Estates Engineering Manager to provide specialist technical leadership across our estate, ensuring critical engineering systems remain safe, compliant and fit for purpose. Reporting to the Head of Estates, you will play a key role in maintaining statutory compliance, delivering engineering assurance, and supporting the safe operation of services that underpin patient care.
As an experienced engineering leader and Authorised Person, you will provide expert advice on complex infrastructure systems, oversee specialist maintenance contracts and planned preventative maintenance programmes, lead engineering compliance initiatives, and support the delivery of capital and improvement projects across the Trust. You will also contribute to the Estates on-call rota and act as a trusted technical advisor to clinical and operational colleagues.
Main duties of the job
For further information regarding the role please read the attached job description and person specification.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the region's busiest providers of healthcare. It was formed on 1 April 1998 following a merger between East Surrey Healthcare NHS and Crawley Horsham NHS Trusts. We are often referred to as 'SASH'.
We run East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, where we have more than 700 beds and provide acute and complex services. In addition, we provide a range of outpatient, diagnostic and less complex planned services at The Earlswood Centre, Caterham Dene Hospital, Crawley Hospital and Horsham Hospital.
Every year, over 120,000 people attend our Emergency Department, we deliver nearly 4,000 babies and almost half a million people have outpatient appointments with us.
We are a major local employer, with a diverse workforce of around 5,500 staff providing healthcare services to a growing population of some 744,000 people.
We are proud to be an inclusive employer, and we work hard to create an environment where everyone feels valued and supported. At our Trust, we strive to be the best place to work and receive care. We are dedicated to supporting you in your current role while helping you grow and develop your career. As part of our team, you will have access to excellent training opportunities, flexible working, dedicated support networks, and a strong emphasis on health and wellbeing to ensure a thriving and positive work environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information regarding the role please read the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Criteria
Essential criteria
- Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
- A complete and accurate application
- Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
- Evidence of essential experience for role
- Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
- Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
- Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
- Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Rachel Barrett
- Job title
- Divisional Coordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01737768511
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