Job Overview
The Estates department at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary is a group of highly skilled electrical, mechanical and plumbing engineers, creative building craft people, and dedicated support staff. We are looking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic Building Services Engineer to join us. You should be experienced and be a time‑served Electrician, Plumber or Mechanical Engineer looking to progress your career.
You will be part of a 7‑person team providing 24/7 cover to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary site, and will be trained to specialise in healthcare ventilation and decontamination.
Key Responsibilities
* To ensure the safe and continuous operation of all engineering and building plant and equipment, in accordance with statutory requirements, codes of practice, guidance notes and Trust procedures to an agreed standard.
* Out of normal office hours site maintenance responsibility. To be the department’s point of contact for all out‑of‑hours incidents and breakdowns, carrying out first‑line assessment, fault finding, repair, substitute of service and/or safe isolation as required.
* To be the Trust’s Fire Controlling Officer and undertake the duties of that role for the site as a whole during a fire event. To be appointed Authorised Person for roles within Health Technical Memoranda (HTM) 1 to 8.
* To carry out line‑manager duties for contractors.
* To provide on‑site maintenance on a continuous 24‑hour, 7‑day basis. To deal with all breakdowns and maintenance emergencies in accordance with statutory requirements, codes of practice, guidance notes and Trust procedures to an agreed standard. The postholder will be required to negotiate and communicate with service managers, matrons and staff in order to maintain essential services but also to agree down‑time to carry out repairs.
* Duties will be undertaken on rotating shifts to enable the Works Department to provide a 24‑hour service 7 days a week. Liaise with all other Building Services Engineer staff to ensure that leave and absences are covered from within the team.
* When on shift directly call out specialist services contractors to deal with site‑specific issues that put the viability of the Trust or Departments at risk. Call out, control, liaise with, and monitor contractors working out of hours. This may include supervision of emergency breakdown visits but will also include supervision of planned contractor visits on maintenance or capital project work. The Building Services Engineer will be the main point of contact for the contractor on site, advising and supervising as required.
* Carry out statutory boiler‑house safety checks and departmental procedures, recording all readings and observations as required, undertake sampling and testing of boilers and feed water quality, carry out chemical dosing to the required level, conduct blow‑down of boilers as calculated, and continually monitor the system, all in accordance with statutory requirements, Health Technical Memoranda (HTM) and guidelines particularly health and safety regulations and COSHH. Monitor the stock of chemicals and reorder spares and consumables in good time.
* Monitor and adjust the plant and services (boiler house, building management computerised system, fire, medical gas and other alarms etc.) including changing over of boilers, fuel type, pumps, compressors, plate heat exchangers etc. as directed by the Engineering Manager or Estates Officer, or during unsocial hours on your own initiative in response to faults, other problems or instruction from utility suppliers.
* Undertake day‑to‑day management of the site building management system (BMS) to include alarm monitoring, energy efficiency of plant and equipment and the supervision of BMS engineers.
* Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) inspections, adjustments and commissioning tests across the whole site, in accordance with Trust procedures and schedules. Ensure that the completion of PPM dockets are logged and recorded on the department’s Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) systems.
* To carry the department’s emergency pager and mobile phone and act as the Estate Maintenance Services Department’s point of contact for all emergency situations, incidents, defects and breakdowns. Re‑prioritise your work according to the latest situation, at times you will be working on your own and the Trust’s Lone Worker Policy will apply, you will be managed rather than supervised and therefore must be capable of making decisions.
* Carry out first‑line assessment, fault finding, repair, substitute service and/or safe isolation as required. This will involve flexible multi‑tasking across all trades e.g. electrical, mechanical, plumbing, joinery etc. It will require the ability to effect repairs and isolation across a wide range of equipment not necessarily in your own trade discipline. This ability will be the result of considerable experience gained in maintenance of hospital systems.
* Undertake duties as a key member of the major incident team and undertake the duties of the Trust’s Fire Controlling Officer for the site as a whole during a fire event.
Locations Covered
We operate from three main hospitals – Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal – as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.
Other Information
FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant‑led services.
WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non‑life‑threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.
All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.
This advert closes on Wednesday 31 Dec 2025.
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