Estates Manager (Operations) – Mechanical Engineer

Overview

As Engineering Estates Manager (Operations) at LGI, you lead the in-house Estates team to maintain and improve the Trust’s vast mechanical and electrical estate. You provide specialist technical guidance on day-to-day building operations, breakdowns, and planned works, ensuring safety, reliability, and value-for-money services. You will coordinate contractors, oversee compliant contracts, and uphold Trust SFIs, while acting as an Authorized Person for Medical Gas Systems. This role offers impact across a large hospital estate and opportunities to shape maintenance standards and safety across the site.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and manage the in-house Estates maintenance team
• Coordinate specialist contractors for daily operations
• Ensure value-for-money, compliant service contracts and contract standardisation across sites
• Work with Procurement to ensure contracts comply with SFIs
• Act as Authorised Person for Medical Gas Systems (and potentially HV/LV training)
• Manage Authorised Person duties for Lifts, Ventilation, Boilers and Pressure systems
• Carry out out-of-hours work and participate in on-call arrangements
• Oversee RESET certification and contractor competence verification

Key requirements

• Mechanical engineering background
• Good computer and IT skills
• Experience in supervising maintenance teams and coordinating contractors
• Authorised Person for Medical Gas Systems (or willingness to undertake training)
• Ability to manage complex multi-site infrastructure and electrical/mechanical systems

• Leadership and people management
• Problem-solving and initiative
• Collaborative working across teams
• Maintenance and fault diagnosis of M&E systems
• Contract management and procurement alignment with SFIs
• Authorised Person duties for medical gas, lifts, ventilation, boilers, pressure systems

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