Lead engineering services across the South West's largest acute hospital!
Join Bristol NHS Foundation Trust as a Senior Estates Manager and take responsibility for electrical engineering services across one of the UK's largest and most technically demanding healthcare estates. This is an opportunity to lead talented teams, influence major infrastructure decisions and play a vital role in keeping clinical services running safely for more than 1.5 million people.
This is an opportunity to step into a senior role where your technical expertise, people leadership and service management experience will directly influence the reliability of critical hospital infrastructure.
What you'll be doing:
We're looking for a highly experienced Senior Estates Manager to lead our electrical engineering services: operating across our Southmead Hospitals, you will serve as an Authorised Person (AP) for electrical systems, ensuring full compliance with statutory legislation, HTMs, and Trust policies. This includes:
Providing technical leadership for all HV/LV electrical systems as the Trust's Authorised Person (AP)
Ensuring compliance with statutory regulations, HTMs, Health & Safety legislation and Trust governance requirements
Leading, motivating and developing a team of skilled engineers
Managing complex maintenance programmes and engineering projects
Working closely with clinical teams, contractors and senior stakeholders to minimise disruption whilst maintaining critical services
Managing risk through robust safe systems of work, permits, risk assessments and method statements
We're looking for someone who ideally has:
Experience of HV/LV electrical infrastructure, statutory compliance and engineering governance
Significant people management experience with the ability to lead and motivate team
Experience managing engineering or estates services within a large, complex organisation
Experience delivering safe, compliant engineering services in highly regulated environments
Excellent stakeholder management skills with the confidence to work across multidisciplinary teams
Experience within the NHS is advantageous, but we also welcome applicants from other large, technically complex organisations where service resilience and safety are critical.
Why join Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (BFT):
This is an opportunity to lead at a scale few organisations can offer. Every decision you make will help ensure our hospitals remain safe, resilient and operational, supporting life-saving clinical services around the clock. You'll lead skilled engineering teams, influence the future of a complex and evolving estate, and work on diverse, technically challenging infrastructure projects that genuinely make a difference to patient care.
If you're ready to combine technical excellence with leadership in an environment where your expertise genuinely matters, we'd love to hear from you.
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.
With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Full details of duties and responsibilities can be found on the job description attached to this vacancy.
