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Job overview

The Estates and Facilities Directorate is seeking to recruit a highly motivated Specialist Engineering Manager (Electrical) to co-ordinate, design and manage electrical engineering maintenance works, major repairs & plant replacement and undertake major revenue works projects from inception to completion.  Your objective will be to develop and sustain a high standard of engineering maintenance and estates service provision with an understanding and appreciation of building disciplines.

Band 7 + 15% long term RRP 

• Interview date: 31 May 2024
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes Per a Week

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Main duties of the job

You will demonstrate exceptional organisation skills and be able to co-ordinate resources including in-house labour and specialist and contractors.  In planning workloads, you will liaise with the Trust’s technical and professional colleagues and importantly clinical teams in their working environment.  Financial management is a critical part of the role with knowledge of procurement routes, SFI’s and management of budgets essential.

You should possess an intimate knowledge of hospital electrical engineering maintenance practices and building services including LV & HV power distribution, lighting, nurse call systems and electrical testing.   You will demonstrate a detailed understanding of HTM’s, CIBSE guides, IE Regulations, British Standards and Building Regulations.  You will be expected to engage with external bodies such as building control and city planners when required.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for all essential and desirable criteria required for the role, and experience in an acute hospital setting.

You will be asked to participate in a 24 hour on call rota system for all out of hours engineering related emergencies once established in the role and developed site knowledge.

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

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, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.