Engineering Manager

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 [email protected]

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.”