Mechanical Supervisor

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Estates Supervisor (Mechanical) to oversee day-to-day mechanical maintenance across multiple sites. You will lead directly employed trades and contractors, plan workloads, and ensure delivery of essential services in a high-demand NHS setting.

The role requires substantial experience in mechanical plant, leadership of teams, and strong knowledge of safety, compliance, and lifecycle planning.

Qualifications

• Recognised mechanical engineering apprenticeship.
• Five years' post-apprenticeship experience.
• AP training or appointment in water safety, ventilation or related areas.
• HNC, HND, BTEC or equivalent higher technical qualification.
• Current formal AP appointment in one or more relevant disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead safe, planned, reactive and corrective maintenance across mechanical systems.
• Plan workloads, allocate labour, contractors, and materials to meet service goals.
• Monitor compliance with health and safety, codes, and lifecycle plans.
• Coordinate with estates management and on-call rota to ensure service continuity.

Skills

Mechanical engineering knowledge

Leadership

Contractor management

Health & safety

Energy management

Education

HNC/HND/BTEC or equivalent

Authorized Person appointment

Tools

Asset information system

Building Management Systems (BMS)

Energy management software

Job description

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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

Job overview

Please note that this role is advertised on behalf of Atlas BFW Management Ltd (Atlas), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and as such, successful applicant(s) will be on Atlas Terms and Conditions. For further information about Atlas, please visit: www.bfwml.co.uk

The Estates Supervisor (Mechanical) is responsible for the safe, compliant and efficient day-to-day delivery of mechanical engineering and associated specialist services across all Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust sites. The post holder will lead directly employed trade staff and contractors, plan and prioritise planned and reactive work, coordinate resources, and ensure that essential services remain available and responsive to clinical and operational needs

The service portfolio includes steam and boiler plant, heating, domestic hot and cold water, ventilation and air conditioning, decontamination equipment, pressure systems, piped medical gases and vacuum, drainage, controls and building management systems, emergency generation interfaces, lifts, catering and mortuary equipment, and theatre plant.

The post holder will participate in the Estates on-call rota, providing a 24-hour emergency response within the mechanical discipline and appropriate support across other estates systems in accordance with competence, local procedures and escalation arrangements.

Main duties of the job

1. Lead the safe and effective delivery of planned, reactive and corrective maintenance across mechanical engineering and associated electro-mechanical systems. Plan and prioritise daily workloads using the Estates management system, allocating labour, contractors, materials and specialist support according to risk, service criticality and operational need. Maintain essential services, control and elevate failures, implement appropriate contingency arrangements and coordinate support from contractors, utility suppliers, emergency services and other external providers to protect patients, staff, visitors and service continuity. Monitor team performance against planned preventative maintenance, reactive maintenance, compliance, response-time and first-time-fix targets, taking corrective action and supporting continual improvement. Act as the first operational escalation point for customers and provide clear technical advice to Estates managers, duty managers, directorate managers, matrons and other senior staff. Participate in the Estates Major Incident Team, respond to emergencies, business-continuity events and major incidents, and ensure relevant staff and contractors are briefed, trained and able to apply mechanical emergency and loss-of-service plans

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Working for our organisation

We are honest and transparent in our communication with others, providing feedback in a constructive and respectful manner. We learn from each other through our open and candid approach. We act in a professional and courteous manner at all times. We carry out our work to the highest standards, ensuring quality is sustained throughout – demonstrating our pride in everything we do.

We have a positive, can-do attitude and actively encourage others to do the same. We put the client’s needs at the heart of what we do and are relentless in our pursuit of delivering a value for money service We always treat others with respect and communicate in an open and honest way, to build and maintain positive working relationships.Atlas is pledged to deliver or ensure equal opportunities for all and is committed to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, marital status, age, race, colour, sexual orientation, creed, nationality, ethnic or national origin or disability.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Use condition surveys, statutory compliance information, asset data and six-facet or equivalent appraisal information to develop and maintain a risk-based, prioritised five-year mechanical backlog maintenance and lifecycle plan.

1. Prepare and support annual risk-based submissions for irregular, major and lifecycle maintenance requirements, including cost estimates, supporting evidence and reports for senior management, client and Board consideration.

1. Monitor building and energy management systems, review alarms and performance information, identify abnormal operation or defects, and coordinate timely investigation and corrective action.

1. Manage plant and equipment failures, identify required parts and services, maintain appropriate stock levels and provide direct mechanical trade support when operational circumstances require and it is safe and appropriate to do so.

1. Work in accordance with legislation, technical guidance, codes of practice and organisational policies, including health and safety, COSHH, infection prevention, fire safety, asbestos, manual handling and approved safe systems of work.

1. Provide visible leadership, motivate staff and promote cooperation, flexibility and consistently high standards of customer service across trade groups.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• Recognised mechanical engineering apprenticeship
• At least five years' relevant post-apprenticeship experience.
• Willingness and ability to complete discipline-specific AP training, formal assessment and periodic reassessment where required.
• HNC, HND, BTEC or equivalent higher technical qualification.
• Current formal appointment as an Authorised Person in one or more relevant disciplines
• AP training or appointment in water safety, ventilation, pressure systems, steam and boiler plant, confined spaces or decontamination.

Experience

• Substantial experience maintaining complex mechanical plant and infrastructure
• Experience supervising trade staff, organising workloads and managing contractors
• Experience of planned and reactive maintenance, fault diagnosis, risk assessment and permit-controlled work.
• Experience within NHS Estates or another safety-critical, continuously operational environment.
• Experience supporting major incidents, business continuity or an out-of-hours rota
• Experience of small works, contract monitoring and financial control

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong knowledge of mechanical services, statutory compliance and maintenance governance
• Ability to lead, delegate, prioritise and make sound decisions under pressure.
• Ability to manage contractors and enforce health, safety and site requirements.
• Influencing and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of NHS HTMs, HBNs and relevant guidance.
• Experience of energy management, asset information or compliance registers

Any invitation to interview will be sent to the email account stated on your application form.

If the role you have applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this as part of your pre-employment checks. Please note, you will be required to repay the cost on appointment. This will be collected via a salary deduction. You can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months from your salary or as a one-off payment on commencement in post. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £24, Standard DBS check £24 and Enhanced DBS check £45.

You are encouraged where possible, to register for the DBS update service. This is an annual registration fee of £15. By registering for the update service you will not have the additional cost of repeated disclosures.

Should you withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check.

DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions.

By submitting an application for this vacancy you are confirming your agreement to the above in the event you are successfully appointed.

The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here .

Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be judged against this.

Please note that every effort will be made to keep the vacancy live until published closing date, though there may be instances where such interest is generated, that for administrative reasons the post may close earlier.

Please note that in line with national NHS guidelines this Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking.

The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 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.