Engineering Manager
Spire Healthcare, St Anthony's Hospital | Sutton | Engineering Manager | Permanent – Full Time

Spire St Anthony's Hospital is seeking a highly experienced and proactive Hospital Engineering Manager to lead our Estates and Engineering function. This is a key leadership role responsible for managing five heritage buildings, ensuring compliance, safety, and operational excellence across the hospital site. If you have a strong background in engineering or building services, proven project management experience, and a passion for leading teams in a healthcare setting, we’d love to hear from you.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of safe, efficient, and compliant engineering services across the hospital site.
• Ensure best practice and consistency in all aspects of engineering and estates management.
• Oversee planned and reactive maintenance, ensuring buildings and equipment are maintained to the highest standards.
• Manage and develop a skilled team of site engineers and handymen, supporting their professional growth.
• Ensure full compliance with Spire’s Fire Policy and all regulatory requirements, including CQC and Public Health England standards.
• Act as the hospital’s Approved Person (AP) for key systems including medical gases, water safety, low voltage electrical services, decontamination equipment, and heating & ventilation.

Who We’re Looking For:

• AP Qualification is desired.
• A relevant background in electrical, plumbing, or building services engineering.
• Previous experience of working within a hospital or healthcare environment is an essential requirement of this role.
• Strong management experience essential.
• Previous experience in managing a team.
• Proven ability to lead and develop teams.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• A proactive, flexible approach and commitment to continuous improvement.

Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time – 37.5 hours per week

Benefits:

• 35 days annual leave
• Contributory pension scheme with flexible retirement options
• Private medical insurance and life assurance
• Free DBS
• Free uniform
• Access to ‘Spire for You’ – our reward platform offering discounts and cashback at over 1,000 retailers
• Ongoing training, development, and career progression opportunities

Our Values:
We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation: Driving clinical excellence, Doing the right thing, Caring is our passion, Keeping it simple, Delivering on our promises, Succeeding and celebrating together. Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart. We’re committed to supporting our employees’ wellbeing and professional growth in a collaborative and inclusive environment.

In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

“Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.”