Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Engineering - FH
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2025-27-08-DR
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Freeman Hospital
- Town
- 317 01 Freeman Hospital
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 05/08/2025
Employer heading
Specialist Engineering Supervisor - Electrical
Band 6
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
The Freeman hospital is seeking a dynamic, forward thinking electrical engineering supervisor to lead our electrical maintenance team within a complex and fast-paced healthcare environment. This role is ideal for an ambitious, innovative professional; who is eager to drive excellence in a vital support service at one of the United Kingdom’s most renowned hospitals. The Supervisor will ensure compliance with all safety standards and procedures whilst ensuring completion of all statutory, mandatory and policy PPMs; as well as managing general repairs. If you are passionate about engineering and operational excellence, we want to hear from you.
What we are offering is as follows:
- An attractive salary with enhancements available for overtime working
- Inclusion into the highly regarded NHS pension scheme
- Professional development training
- Potential for progression
Further details:
- Interview date: Tuesday 5th August 2025
- Working hours: 37 hours 30 minutes per week
You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all the information before applying for the vacancy.
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for organising and assigning PPM tasks issued by the Estates Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM) System including any follow-up actions
- Management of day-to-day hand-held devices for each crafts-person
- Management of KPI's
- Responsible for organising and assigning reactive breakdown tasks and ensuring completion in an efficient and timely manner
- Work alongside Estates Officers and ensure that all shifts are continually covered by internal resource
- Work alongside Estates Officers to support all team member including dayshift crafts-persons, shift crafts-persons and apprentices
- Provide estates officers with weekly updates concerning outstanding PPMs and breakdown tasks.
Working for our organisation
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsible for the direct technical supervision of specialist craftsperson's in the planned maintenance of, and emergency response to, complex engineering infrastructure to ensure the effective performance of all building services, plant, equipment, structures and fabric to ensure the trust Estate is maintained in a safe condition.
This will include:
- Act as Authorised Person (Limited Duties) as defined by Health
Technical Memorandum’s for the Low Voltage Distribution Systems across
the Estate - Responsible for the management and supervision of Competent Persons
in the completion of technically specialist tasks - Day to day management of software and hardware systems used by the
maintenance compliance function - Quality Inspection
- To manage minor works projects as directed
- Participate in the shift out of hours rota
- To ensure cover is provided in the event of unplanned circumstance
- To provide Estates support to Capital Projects and other organisations when
required - Raise and approve of orders within defined parameters in line with Trust
Standing Financial Instructions - Monitor the performance of the maintenance teams. Identifying performance, targets and providing regular reports on performance which identify areas for improvement
- Provide regular highlight reports for compliance areas as required.
Identify and deliver cost improvement opportunities and service efficiencies that may improve the organisation’s operations. - Ensure that all risks and issues are identified, addressed and mitigated or notified appropriately.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Qualified to degree level or HNC/HND with equivalent knowledge gained through experience, in an electrical engineering discipline with significant relevant post qualification experience
- Post graduate qualification or significant relevant post qualification experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Have specialist knowledge of complex engineering systems in a healthcare environment.
- Be fully conversant with the latest Trust Codes of Practice/all relevant Trust Policies and Procedures
- The use of Computer Aided Facilities Management systems.
- Technical report writing.
- Supervision of teams of technical craftsperson’s in the delivery of planned maintenance and emergency response to a range of complex engineering systems.
- Previous experience in managing compliance areas such as legionella, ventilation, asbestos and electrical at management level.
- Broad knowledge of H&S legislation and requirements in compliance and maintenance services. HTM’s, HBN’s, emergency procedures and systems
- Line management responsibility for staff including all HR aspects including sickness management, annual leave, etc
- Understanding of the safe management of electrical distribution systems as outlined in the Health Technical Memorandum suite of documents and other related legislation.
- Understanding of the requirements of legislation around the building services in a healthcare environment including but not limited to, HASAWA, PUWER, LOLER, EAWR, PSSR, Control of Asbestos, etc.
- Management of Planned Maintenance Schedules in line with statutory, mandatory and best practice requirements.
Desirable criteria
- In depth knowledge of contractual procedures and Trust SFIs relating to major and minor capital projects, maintenance & service contracts.
- Understanding of the requirements for Health Technical Memorandum Authorised Person Electrical Distribution Systems (HV).
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication and leadership skills required to communicate with multi-disciplinary internal and external agencies, consultants and other specialists.
- Must be able to negotiate and have developed skills to convey new policy/procedure changes around specialist services and speak publicly when required.
- Ability to work on-call providing technical support.
- Be capable of managing a multi trade workforce and equipment, on a wide range of technical, plant equipment and services
- Demonstrate the ability to supervise teams of technical personnel in the Maintenance and repair of engineering systems in a healthcare environment.
- Ability to communicate highly technical information to technical and nontechnical individuals including, clinical staff and external agencies.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Daniel Pattison
- Job title
- Specialist Engineering Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2139689
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