North Bristol NHS Trust
Senior Estates Manager
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) have merged as of 1st July 2026 to become Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. This creates an exciting future that brings together the best of both organisations. As a single, strong and sustainable organisation, we will not only be able to deliver better outcomes for our patients and fairer care for our population, but it will also provide greater opportunities for our people.
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.
Our job adverts may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Considering this, if you are interested in this role, please do apply as soon as you can.
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) describes algorithms that can be used to produce new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos. It is developing all the time and is now being used as a support mechanism for all kinds of content-based creations. Please note the use of AI is monitored and if applicants have used it then they are required to declare this.
Job Overview
Lead engineering services across the South West's largest acute hospital!
Join Bristol NHS Foundation Trust as a Senior Estates Manager and take responsibility for electrical engineering services across one of the UK's largest and most technically demanding healthcare estates. This is an opportunity to lead talented teams, influence major infrastructure decisions and play a vital role in keeping clinical services running safely for more than 1.5 million people.
This is an opportunity to step into a senior role where your technical expertise, people leadership and service management experience will directly influence the reliability of critical hospital infrastructure.
What You'll Be Doing
We're looking for a highly experienced Senior Estates Manager to lead our electrical engineering services: operating across our Southmead Hospitals, you will serve as an Authorised Person (AP) for electrical systems, ensuring full compliance with statutory legislation, HTMs, and Trust policies. This includes:
- Providing technical leadership for all HV/LV electrical systems as the Trust's Authorised Person (AP)
- Ensuring compliance with statutory regulations, HTMs, Health & Safety legislation and Trust governance requirements
- Leading, motivating and developing a team of skilled engineers
- Managing complex maintenance programmes and engineering projects
- Working closely with clinical teams, contractors and senior stakeholders to minimise disruption whilst maintaining critical services
- Managing risk through robust safe systems of work, permits, risk assessments and method statements
Main duties of the job
We're Looking For Someone Who Ideally Has
- Experience of HV/LV electrical infrastructure, statutory compliance and engineering governance
- Significant people management experience with the ability to lead and motivate team
- Experience managing engineering or estates services within a large, complex organisation
- Experience delivering safe, compliant engineering services in highly regulated environments
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the confidence to work across multidisciplinary teams
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Experience within the NHS is advantageous, but we also welcome applicants from other large, technically complex organisations where service resilience and safety are critical.
Why Join Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (BFT)
This is an opportunity to lead at a scale few organisations can offer. Every decision you make will help ensure our hospitals remain safe, resilient and operational, supporting life-saving clinical services around the clock. You'll lead skilled engineering teams, influence the future of a complex and evolving estate, and work on diverse, technically challenging infrastructure projects that genuinely make a difference to patient care.
If you're ready to combine technical excellence with leadership in an environment where your expertise genuinely matters, we'd love to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.
With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. 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 in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Full details of duties and responsibilities can be found on the job description attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Shortlisting criteria
Essential criteria
- Registered with the Engineering Council at EngTech or IEng level achieved via membership of CIBSE, IHEEM etc.
- Educated to Masters equivalent level in building services/healthcare engineering/mechanical engineering or equivalent relevant experience. Other non-academic routes will be considered providing professional registration at the appropriate level (see explanatory notes at the foot of this document)
- Experience of Building Management Systems interpretation, extraction of data and set point adjustments etc
- Experience of fault diagnosis on building services plant & equipment including interpreting drawings and O&M manuals
- Financial management skills, including assuring best value, assessment of economic repair or replacement
- Analytical skills (process performance, quality and regulatory or statutory compliance)
- Diplomatic and calm nature with the quality to remain calm and professional in dealing with challenging situations (unhappy or angry customers, disgruntled staff or contractors)
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Desirable criteria
- AP, AE, CP qualifications in Electrical, Water and Ventilation.
- Experience of creating Operation & Maintenance manuals for clients
- Establishing computer based maintenance resource planning, helpdesk and PPM systems
- Experience of undertaking audits and/or surveys
- Experience of innovation – implementation or evaluation of new technology
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
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.
BFT 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.
If you require sponsorship for a visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check to ensure you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
By applying for this post, you are agreeing to Bristol NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please be aware of scams – unless specified above, we will only communicate with you via @recruit.trac.jobs or nhs.net e-mails and we will never ask you for any payments.
Important
Please note that if you apply for a position with this Trust, you may be contacted via Trac or via email. This includes invites for job interviews. We therefore recommend that you regularly check your Trac account and email accounts. We may also contact you by texting the mobile number, if provided, on the application form.
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.
When providing employment reference details, please provide correct work-related email addresses so references can be sought promptly when we are looking to progress your application. Your referee must all be known to you in a line manager or professional lead capacity.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location