Estates Officer - Electrical

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Job overview

Do you have a professional electrical engineering qualification? Have you got experience of managing a team? Are you looking for your next step?

This role will work to ensure that the land, buildings, and property are safe and fit for purpose in accordance with statutory legislation codes of practice and Divisional business plans.

You will work to ensure parity of service and compliance and adherence to procedures and policies, including all statutory & non statutory instruments including but not limited to Health Technical Memorandums, Hospital Building Notes and best practice.

This is a 12 month fixed term post, that can be offered as a secondment.

Main duties of the job

Your role will include:

• Be professionally responsible for compliance with various legislative requirements such as asbestos, fire safety, environmental protection and building regulations.
• Work within estates and facilities management team to provide a safe, appropriate and cost effective environment for effective healthcare delivery
• Exercise professional judgement across a wide range of estates compliance and maintenance issues taking into account legislation, complexity of systems or interactions and the conflicting demands of the service.
• Plan and organise a broad range of activities, adjust plans or strategies. Including planning multi-discipline projects which may run concurrently and be inter related. Projects may include conflicting requirements/solutions and the post holder will assist and make judgements to find the preferred solution

• A competitive starting salary and unsocial enhancements
• Access to a raft of national and local discount schemes including shopping, holidays and insurance
• An industry leading pension where your employer pays in 20.6% of your annual salary!
• 27+8 days annual leave per year, paid leave including absence

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities and person specification please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full understanding of all relevant legislation, including Health and Safety and Electricity at work Regulation 1989, applicable to Estate maintenance, with appropriate qualification in H&S Management.
• Membership of professional body
• Possession of Electrical Engineering qualification to HND/C standard with appropriate professional registration recognised by the Engineering Council UK

Experience

• Experience of all aspects of Electrical Engineering and maintenance within Healthcare environment or equivalent
• Experience of HV network management and hold position of Authorised Person HV
• Experience of preparing switching schedules for working at an operational level on complex equipment and circuits
• Previous experience of staff management

Skills

• Good demonstrable cross trade skills
• Computer literate and fluent with all Microsoft packages, a good working knowledge of industry software protocols

• Able to interpret and analyse technical results to assist in investment planning

• As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
• The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
• UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
• To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.
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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.

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