Senior Estates Operations Leader – Multi-Site NHS

Service Care; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Service Care Solutions is recruiting a Senior Estates Operations Manager in the West Midlands (NHS/Healthcare) to oversee estates across multiple sites, ensuring safe, compliant and efficient operations.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, manage budgets and contractors, and drive continuous improvements in service delivery and performance across sites within the NHS trust environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing operational estates or facilities services across large or complex sites.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams within an engineering, estates or facilities environment.
• Strong understanding of statutory estates compliance including HTMs, ACoPs, HSE guidance.
• Experience managing planned and reactive maintenance services, budgets and contractors.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior operational leadership across designated estates and facilities sites.
• Manage and develop multidisciplinary teams, including Estates Managers, supervisors, engineering staff and contractors.
• Oversee planned preventative and reactive maintenance programmes.
• Ensure compliance with statutory legislation and HTMs/HBNs/HSE guidance.
• Act as an Authorised Person / Responsible Person in relevant technical disciplines.
• Manage delegated budgets, maintenance contracts and contractor performance.
• Oversee building infrastructure, engineering systems, health and safety and operational risk.
• Lead incident investigations and maintain risk registers.
• Produce operational performance reports and contribute to estates planning and governance.
• Identify opportunities to improve service delivery and efficiency across sites.
• Support workforce development and succession planning.

Skills

Estate management

Leadership

Budgets & contracts

CAFM systems

Education

Degree-level qualification in Engineering/Building Services/Estates Management

Tools

CAFM systems

Job description

Service Care Solutions is recruiting a Senior Estates Operations Manager in the West Midlands (NHS/Healthcare) to oversee estates across multiple sites, ensuring safe, compliant and efficient operations.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, manage budgets and contractors, and drive continuous improvements in service delivery and performance across sites within the NHS trust environment.