Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Manager

Description:

Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Manager
Royal Berkshire Hospital - Reading RG1 5AN

Band 8a £29.33/hr - 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday with some flexibility depending upon deadlines.
Temporary to Permanent role for the right candidate.

Are you a highly experienced Mechanical & Electrical manager with an Electrical bias and have a desire to help your local NHS Trust with your knowledge and expertise in their continued redevelopment of one of the largest General Hospitals in England?

If so, then Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust wants to hear from you right away.

The Mechanical & Electrical is a pivotal role in which oversees the implementation of the Trust's pre-planned maintenance program, manage reactive and remedial works, and is a driver of minor project initiatives. As a key member of the engineering team, the post holder ensures the resilience of the estates engineering services, minimizes downtime, and upholds compliance with statutory regulations and HTM guidelines.

Key responsibilities of the role

Hold overall responsibility for all low-voltage (HTM06-02) and high-voltage (HTM06-03) electrical works at Royal Berkshire Hospital, ensuring resilience of engineering services, timely defect resolution, and emergency responses to minimize downtime, reflected in assurance reports.
Ensure a safe and compliant estates infrastructure within assigned areas, overseeing statutory and preventative maintenance completed by service providers within SLAs and agreed KPIs.
Serve as the primary liaison point with the Building Manager to implement electrical services for the estate's directorate.
Manage budgets and generate reports to meet Trust requirements.
Perform various day-to-day tasks, including acting as a gateway for assigned estates areas, overseeing routine, reactive, and remedial maintenance, managing minor works and projects, conducting risk management updates, health and safety inspections, audits, improvement actions, and attending internal governance meetings and stakeholder meetings.
Participate in out-of-hours duty manager rota and support engineering activities during scheduled tests and shutdowns.A full job specification sheet is available upon request for all applicants.

Experience and qualifications

Educated to HNC/HND level in Electrical Engineering with specialist knowledge in building structures and building services management.
Proficient in HTM06-02 and HTM06-03 guidelines.
Membership in a relevant professional body or actively progressing towards chartered status.
Practical experience in engineering or estate maintenance management roles.
Possession of a full UK driving licence.
Demonstrated success in operational and management roles, preferably in complex environments.
Effective management of contracts and externally contracted teams.
Specialist knowledge in performance management, contract monitoring, and audit within building services.
Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
Competence in technical compliance standards management and resolution of contractual compliance matters.
Experience in building and maintaining effective working relationships both internally and externally.
Ability to interpret and present complex information objectively to diverse stakeholder groups.
Competence in commercial management and resolution of commercial matters.
Ability to manage resources to provide a 24/7 priority-based estates service, proposing innovative solutions as needed.
Participation in a 24/7 management on-call rota.
Desirable experience working in an NHS or healthcare environment, with a good understanding of hospital policies and procedures.About the Trust
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust are one of the largest general hospital foundation trusts in the country - serving a population of more than 500,000 people - and the main provider of acute and specialist care services for West Berkshire. We are also the region's specialist centre for cancer, eye and renal (kidney) care serving over one million people across Berkshire and south Oxfordshire. Our main site is the Royal Berkshire hospital in Reading.

In return for your hard work, commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits: -

Competitive Pay Rates - work this week, get paid next week!
First choice of placements at over 50 NHS Trusts in England
Dedicated consultants
Flexible working options
Free DBS and free training
Build holiday allowance.
Support when you need it - 24/7 365 days.
Stakeholder pension scheme

Who are NHS Professionals?

NHS Professionals (NHSP), owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), works in partnership with hospital trusts to provide a bank of highly skilled temporary workers who want to work flexibly within the NHS.

Working through the NHSP bank means Trusts don't have to rely on expensive agencies. Right now, we have over 126,000 members registered on our bank from various roles, grades, and specialities, saving the NHS over £70 million each year. This money is then reinvested back into the NHS. Register today for various flexible working options and long-term placement opportunities.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Disclaimer

Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion