Band 7 Electrical & Engineering Manager | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 7 Electrical & Engineering Manager to lead electrical and mechanical estates activities across its portfolio. You will oversee in-house and contracted teams, ensuring regulatory compliance and high-quality service delivery within HTM standards.

The role requires strong electrical expertise, HTM knowledge and leadership to support strategic planning and safe, efficient operations across multiple sites in the West Midlands.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in electrical and mechanical estates management.
• Knowledge of HTM guidance and statutory compliance.
• Leadership of in-house and contractor maintenance teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day electrical and mechanical maintenance operations.
• Provide expert electrical and engineering advice for estates matters.
• Ensure HTM compliance and safe work procedures are followed.
• Support strategic planning of the estates services and resource needs.
• Act as HTM authorised person for key electrical services.

Skills

Electrical expertise

HTM knowledge

Health & Safety

Project planning

Team leadership

Education

Relevant degree in electrical/MEP engineering

Tools

HTM procedures

Job description

Band 7 Electrical & Engineering Manager | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Company:

Company: Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust

The post holder will be responsible for providing effective, Electrical & Engineering Estates Management services to the Birmingham Community Health Care portfolio. Ensuring that the Trust operates within all relevant regulatory, advisory, compliance, financial and service delivery frameworks. They shall co-ordinate the day-to-day planning and delivery of Electrical and Mechanical operational and maintenance functions, primarily but not exclusively for engineering, services, and buildings. This will involve the management of the in-house maintenance team and specialist contractors or service providers that the department relies upon to provide a maintenance service.

Whilst the primary task will be Electrical work, the post holder must have a flexible approach to a range of mechanical and building maintenance service operations.

Provide Electrical expert knowledge on the operation and design of Low Voltage (LV) and High Voltage (HV) installations.

• Provide expert building service knowledge such as Heat Pumps and Solar Power etc.
• Provide assurance that the Trust is compliant with its statutory and regulatory estates requirements.
• Provide Electrical and Engineering Technical advice to the Trust on Estates related matters but also covering a range of engineering and building services.
• Develop further the departments existing good practices in Health and Safety, including risk assessment, safe work procedures, staff competencies and Healthcare Technical Memorandum (HTM) compliant permits to work.
• Support the Head of Estates and Estates and Compliance Manager and wider department in the strategic planning of the services, identifying resource requirements to ensure that future service needs are met.
• Fulfil the role of HTM authorised person for key services- Electrical Low voltage systems 06-02, High voltage systems 06-03 and be fully conversant with HTM 06-01 Electrical services supply and distribution.
• Collaborate closely with the Authorising Engineers for HV-LV works to ensure the Trust is complaint with HTM 06-02 and HTM 06-3
• Be familiar with all other Healthcare technical memorandum guidance documents such as medical gases, ventilation, water safety, pressure systems and decontamination services.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

See Job description and Person Specification

Whilst the primary task will be Electrical work, the post holder must have a flexible approach to a range of mechanical maintenance service operations.

This advert closes on Monday 16 Nov 2026

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust

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