Estates Manager - Electrical

NHS; Truro; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Truro seeks motivated individuals for engineering roles. You will manage projects and maintain healthcare facilities, ensuring excellent standards of care. This permanent position offers a salary range of £47,810 to £54,710 per annum, with opportunities for professional development in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Essential: Engineering within a health care environment.
• Experience in HR activities and auditing.
• Budgetary Responsibility at £1M+.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations of estates team and project management.
• Ensure compliance and quality in healthcare facilities.
• Help maintain sustainable environments in healthcare.

Skills

Engineering within a health care environment

Building Services

Technical report writing

CAD Drawing reading

Education

Engineering Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

HTM compliance Training (AP)

Job description

Overview

We want you to help us build and maintain the most modern, sustainable, progressive and forward thinking environments in which our healthcare professionals can deliver outstanding care for one and all. It is what we have called 'Building Brilliance'. Following significant investment in the Trust, we have developed outstanding plans for new developments which will push RCHT right to the forefront of modern hospital care.

Main duties

We are now investing in our Estates team in both strategic project management and in the day to day management of our maintenance and buildings. We are interested in hearing from highly motivated, hardworking and committed individuals with experience in their field of work, as well as people looking for a change in career direction.

This is a particularly exciting time to join the team as we undergo a period of significant growth, offering excellent opportunity for progression. We have a wide range of positions available at various levels including project managers, estates officers (mechanical and electrical), supervisors and assistants, so whatever your discipline, background and experience, come and take a look at how you can form part of our brilliant team.

About us

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We serve a population of around 500,000 people and employ approximately 6,700 staff with a budget of approximately £580 million. We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School. The Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site is the base for medical and nursing as well as ongoing education for health professions in clinical and non-clinical roles. Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we are continually developing our clinical services as well as our facilities and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care that can be offered locally. Allied to this is a growing reputation for research and innovation. Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is a research active organisation. It is established South West Clinical School in Cornwall exists to promote clinical academic career opportunities for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals interested in research and evidence-based activities. Read their research paper to find out more. Support information is available on the Trust website.

Details

• Date posted: 01 October 2025
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum pro rata
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 156-7474109
• Job locations: Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, TR1 3LJ

Job description and responsibilities

PLEASE NOTE: To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click the supporting document on the right-hand side.

To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:

• Identity Checks
• Professional registration and qualification checks
• Employment history and reference checks
• Work health assessments
• Criminal record check standards
• Right to work checks

For further information please visit the NHS Employers employment standards and regulation page.

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about any flexible working arrangements you would prefer or require. While we may not be able to fully accommodate all requests, such requests will not be referenced during the interview scoring process, and we will fully consider and try to accommodate them for successful applicants.

We reserve the right to close this advert early, or when the allocated number of applications has been reached. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Engineering Bachelor’s Degree in an appropriate Engineering discipline or suitable and sufficient equivalent qualifications and experience
• HTM compliance Training (AP)

Desirable

• H&S Risk Management Qualifications
• Budgetary Qualification
• Registration with the Engineering Council
• Leadership & Management Qualification

Experience

• Essential: Engineering within a health care environment
• Building Services
• HR activities
• Technical report writing
• CAD Drawing reading
• Auditing
• Budgetary Responsibility at £1M+

Desirable

• Recruitment
• Investigations
• Control of a Budget at £1m+ level

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here about overseas criminal records checks.

Employer details

Employer name: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

Address: Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, TR1 3LJ

Employer’s website: www.royalcornwall.nhs.uk