Job Overview
The Principal Electrical Engineer will provide professional leadership and assurance for the Trust’s electrical systems, ensuring they are safe, reliable, compliant, and fit for purpose in a healthcare environment. The role exists to safeguard patient and staff wellbeing by overseeing statutory compliance, risk management, and technical standards across all electrical HV & LV assets, Medical gases, Lifts, Asbestos, and Energy systems. Acting as a senior technical authority, the post-holder will support the Head of Assurance in delivering a robust estates compliance framework, driving continuous improvement in system performance and contributing to the Trust’s strategic objectives in sustainability, energy efficiency and service resilience.
Main duties of the job:
Key Responsibilities
* Deputise for the Head of Assurance, overseeing compliance across PAM, audits, risk assessments and safety groups, ensuring action plans and estates risks are monitored and updated.
* Manage the estates policy library, assurance training matrix and asbestos risk register, and coordinate statutory maintenance and PPM scheduling in line with SFG20.
* Build strong working relationships with stakeholders, producing performance and compliance reports, including for the Hospital Infection Control Committee.
* Liaise with Asset & Smart Buildings Manager to ensure maintenance aligns with SFG20, escalated end‑of‑life assets for capital replacement, and travel to Trust sites to assess requirements and arrange inspections.
* Participate in safety group meetings, support out‑of‑hours on‑call and engineering activities, and provide technical advice to capital project managers.
* Witness and sign off works in line with HTM/HBN guidance, supervise electrical works and contractors, and maintain AP competence through refresher training.
* Ensure compliance with all HTMs, HBNs, SFG20, British Standards, PAM and statutory health & safety requirements, including testing programmes and Trust duties relating to infection control, safeguarding, equality and information governance.
Qualifications
Essential criteria:
* Undergraduate degree in engineering.
* Postgraduate master’s degree in relevant engineering discipline or demonstrating working towards master’s level qualification.
* Chartered professional registration with the engineering council, or equivalent IEng + experience.
* Authorised Person/Responsible Person training/qualifications.
* Evidence of CPD.
Desirable criteria:
* H&S qualification, NEBOSH Diploma, IOSH.
* Asbestos awareness.
* Medical Gas Authorised Person qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria:
* Proven experience of working in a management/leadership role to include staff management.
* Experience of working within the NHS or similar public sector organisation.
* Budget management.
* Significant experience of managing and monitoring the compliance aspects of FM services.
* Previous experience in creating and maintaining MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, cloud‑hosted databases.
Desirable criteria:
* Experience of using Healthroster.
* Experience of using EPROC.
Skills
Essential criteria:
* Excellent communication skills.
* Strong presentation skills.
* Enhanced problem‑solving skills and the ability to respond under sudden unexpected demands.
* Strong time management and organisational skills.
* Working knowledge of financial processes.
* Good knowledge of NHS standards, including Health Building Notes and Health Technical Memorandums.
* Full understanding of the importance of Method statements and Risk assessments and the ‘Permit to Work’ system.
* Skills in data collation or analysis.
* Advanced problem solving.
Desirable criteria:
* Knowledge of mechanical systems.
* Familiarity with asset tracking and maintenance scheduling.
* Project management experience – especially in capital works, refurbishment or compliance improvement programmes.
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