Estates Manager

About the role

We’re looking for an Estates Manager to join our Facilities and Estates team at The Portland Hospital in London. This is a pivotal role within a highly specialist hospital environment, where safety, reliability and operational excellence are essential to delivering exceptional patient care.

Responsibilities

• Ensure full regulatory compliance across estates and engineering services, including PPMs, water safety, fire safety, medical gases and electrical systems, keeping the hospital consistently CQC-ready
• Lead a 24-hour engineering service, ensuring responsive and effective management of planned, unplanned and emergency maintenance
• Manage, develop and support a team of engineers, fostering strong performance, accountability and collaboration
• Advise senior stakeholders on system risks, deficiencies and long-term infrastructure planning
• Plan and deliver capital projects up to £3 million, ensuring they are completed safely, on time and within budget

Requirements

• Proven experience managing estates or engineering services within a complex environment, ideally within a healthcare organisation
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing teams in a 24-hour operational setting
• Sound understanding of CQC standards and regulatory compliance within estates and facilities (essential)
• Relevant technical qualifications or training in a building services discipline, such as City and Guilds or NVQ, with an engineering degree desirable
• Strong technical knowledge of health and safety, COSHH and building services systems, alongside excellent organisational and communication skills

Qualifications

Proven experience managing estates or engineering services within a complex environment, ideally within a healthcare organisation

Skills

• Leadership skills
• Team management
• Regulatory compliance
• Technical knowledge of health and safety, COSHH and building services systems

Benefits

Reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process and in the workplace to anyone that needs them.

Pay

Up to £65,000 per annum

Schedule

Permanent, 37.5 hours per week, with some flexibility required