Engineering Manager
Spire Healthcare · London, England, United Kingdom
Hospitals and Health Care · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The Engineering Manager will lead the estates and engineering function, ensuring the safe, efficient, and compliant operation of five heritage hospital buildings. Responsibilities include managing maintenance teams, overseeing regulatory compliance, and acting as the Approved Person for critical hospital systems.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have a strong background in electrical, plumbing, or building services engineering with proven experience in a hospital or healthcare environment. Strong leadership skills and the ability to manage teams are essential, with an AP qualification being highly desired.
Benefits
Full description
Engineering Manager | Spire Healthcare | St Anthony's Hospital | Sutton | Permanent | Full Time
Spire St Anthony's Hospital is seeking a highly experienced and proactive Hospital Engineering Manager to lead our Estates and Engineering function. This is a key leadership role responsible for managing five heritage buildings, ensuring compliance, safety, and operational excellence across the hospital site.
If you have a strong background in engineering or building services, proven project management experience, and a passion for leading teams in a healthcare setting, we’d love to hear from you.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead the delivery of safe, efficient, and compliant engineering services across the hospital site.
- Ensure best practice and consistency in all aspects of engineering and estates management.
- Oversee planned and reactive maintenance, ensuring buildings and equipment are maintained to the highest standards.
- Manage and develop a skilled team of site engineers and handymen, supporting their professional growth.
- Ensure full compliance with Spire’s Fire Policy and all regulatory requirements, including CQC and Public Health England standards.
- Act as the hospital’s Approved Person (AP) for key systems including medical gases, water safety, low voltage electrical services, decontamination equipment, and heating & ventilation.
Who We’re Looking For:
We are looking for a confident and experienced Engineering or Estates Lead with:
- AP Qualification is desired.
- A relevant background in electrical, plumbing, or building services engineering.
- Previous experience of working within a hospital or healthcare environment is an essential requirement of this role.
- Strong management experience essential.
- Previous experience in managing a team.
- Proven ability to lead and develop teams.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- A proactive, flexible approach and commitment to continuous improvement.
Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time – 37.5 hours per week
Benefits:
We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- 35 days annual leave
- Contributory pension scheme with flexible retirement options
- Private medical insurance and life assurance
- Free DBS
- Free uniform
- Access to ‘Spire for You’ – our reward platform offering discounts and cashback at over 1,000 retailers
- Ongoing training, development, and career progression opportunities
Our Values:
We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:
- Driving clinical excellence
- Doing the right thing
- Caring is our passion
- Keeping it simple
- Delivering on our promises
- Succeeding and celebrating together
- Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.
We’re committed to supporting our employees’ wellbeing and professional growth in a collaborative and inclusive environment.
For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Rebecca O'Neill at rebecca.oneill@spirehealthcare.com
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
“Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.”
