Engineering Manager
Spire Healthcare · Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom
Engineering Manager | Spire Healthcare | St Anthony's Hospital | Sutton | 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:
We are looking for a confident and experienced Engineering or Estates Lead with:
- 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:
We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- 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.
For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Rebecca O'Neill at rebecca.oneill@spirehealthcare.com
Closing date: 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.”