This post sits in the Building, Engineering & Maintenance department at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, supporting senior estates engineers. The work centres on managing estates assets and planned preventative maintenance in the CAFM system, monitoring external contractor performance and producing engineering compliance reports. It also covers IT, mobile and radio support across the department and training estates staff on FSI Go. Visa sponsorship is not available.
What the job involves
- Manage estates assets and planned preventative maintenance within the CAFM system
- Provide technical and administrative support to hospital engineers, including minutes and circulating meeting papers
- Monitor contracts with external contractors by gathering performance data and reporting it to hospital engineers
- Liaise with contractors on performance and service delivery, raising concerns with the Systems & CAFM Manager for escalation
- Respond to requests from fire, health and safety and compliance teams within strict time limits
- Carry out site visits to inspect plant and equipment and verify asset information
- Collect, collate and report engineering data on performance and compliance with Trust and regulatory standards
- Refine existing reporting processes and design new pro-forma layouts using appropriate software
- Maintain statutory and performance records of engineering plant and services
- Provide IT, mobile phone and radio support across the department and train estates staff on FSI Go
Qualifications
- Degree in a STEM subject or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience
- Working collaboratively in an engineering, manufacturing, maintenance or design office environment
- Confident communication at all levels of management
- Experience of engineering contract management
- Experience of organising and scheduling planned and preventative maintenance
Skills & knowledge
- Working knowledge of health and safety and current engineering legislation, regulation and guidance
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Good analytical skills, including analysing data to produce reports and recommendations
- Sound IT knowledge and experience
- Capable of working in a demand-driven service
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Excel
Checks & eligibility
- Right to work in the UK for at least 6 months from the proposed start date
Other
- Acting in line with the Trust values of safe, kind and excellent
- Practical, efficient, calm, tolerant and reassuring
- Flexible and quick to respond in a demand-driven, reactive environment
Nice to have
- Membership of a professional body
- Experience of working in a hospital engineering or facilities maintenance environment
- NHS experience
- Knowledge of legionella control methods
- Knowledge of HTM and HBN
- Effective, demonstrable people management skills
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Excel
What’s offered
- Development opportunities
- On-site leisure facilities
- Day nursery access
- Reduced-cost hot food on campus, available 24/7
- Free tea and coffee in the staff pod break space
- Reduced-cost Stagecoach bus travel to the hospital site
- Subsidised on-site parking for eligible staff
- Flexible working options such as part-time, job-share, term-time and flexible start and finish times