Head of Engineering - NHS

Venn Group’s specialist Estates & Facilities team is recruiting for a Head of Engineering on behalf of a large NHS organisation. This senior leadership role offers an excellent opportunity to provide strategic and operational leadership across a complex healthcare estate, ensuring engineering services remain safe, compliant and fully supportive of frontline patient care.

The Role

You will be responsible for:

• Leading Mechanical, Electrical and Building Services engineering teams across the estate
• Ensuring compliance with statutory legislation, HTMs, HBNs, British Standards and Trust policies
• Overseeing planned preventative maintenance (PPM), reactive maintenance and engineering service delivery
• Managing critical infrastructure including electrical systems, medical gases, ventilation, water safety, pressure systems and fire systems
• Providing engineering expertise for capital projects, refurbishments, infrastructure upgrades and commissioning activities
• Leading engineering safety, permit-to-work systems, risk assessments and incident management
• Managing engineering risk registers, business continuity arrangements and resilience planning
• Monitoring engineering performance, compliance, maintenance backlogs and asset condition
• Managing budgets, expenditure and cost improvement programmes
• Leading and developing engineering managers, technical teams and specialist contractors

About You

• Degree, HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in Engineering or Building Services
• Professional membership with CIBSE, IET, IMechE or similar
• Significant Estates or Engineering Management experience, ideally within healthcare
• Strong knowledge of mechanical and electrical services and statutory compliance
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams, contractors and budgets
• Understanding of engineering governance and Authorised Person responsibilities
• Proven experience in asset management, capital projects and service improvement
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Strong leadership, judgement and problem-solving abilities
• Commitment to safety, compliance and patient care

Key Details

• Pay: £47.33 per hour via an umbrella company
• Location: Surrey
• Contract: 6 months
• Start: ASAP

Why Consider This Role?

• Opportunity to lead engineering services across a complex healthcare estate
• Influence critical infrastructure supporting patient care
• Lead strategic investment and engineering improvement programmes
• Work closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation
• Play a key role in compliance, resilience and sustainability initiatives

Apply

To discuss this opportunity, contact Liz Levett-Millett at Venn Group or apply online.