Estates Building Officer
Department: Estates Engineering
Band 7 £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
Hours: 37.5 per week. Flexible working may be considered for all MKUH roles.
Join us as an Estates Building Officer and become a vital part of the team that keeps our hospital running. This hands‑on role centres on a fast‑paced Estates Engineering Team where you will support patients, staff and contractors across the hospital site and satellite locations.
Your health and safety expertise, including asbestos, confined spaces and working at height, will be crucial in keeping the team and contractors safe and compliant. You will support minor new‑works projects and play a key role in maintaining engineering systems and supporting safe contractor activity.
Key responsibilities
- The Estates Building Officer is responsible for the planning, monitoring and control of all aspects of the projects to which they are appointed, ensuring successful delivery on time, within cost, quality standards and performance.
- Act as the Trust’s appointed/responsible person for asbestos, leading asbestos management, providing specialist advice, organising training, managing asbestos surveying consultants and removal contractors, and keeping the Trust’s asbestos register up to date.
- Support the Estates team in ensuring the effective delivery of all aspects of the Capital and Minor new‑works projects programme across the Trust.
- Ensure contract compliance and KPI performance around capital and minor new‑works projects, backlog maintenance budget and environmental improvement group.
- Project manage delegated capital and minor new‑works projects, including refurbishments, redevelopments and new builds in accordance with Trust project‑management processes and policies.
- Prepare detailed project plans to ensure successful completion of each stage of the project.
- Financial responsibility: manage the delegated budget for Minor New Works and project budgets for assigned Capital Funded schemes.
- Indirectly line‑manage the Estates Administrator assigned to operate the Minor New Works database.
- Maintain effective communication channels within the department, between management, staff and other hospital departments.
Qualifications and experience
- Experience in asbestos management, confined spaces and working at height is advantageous; full training will be provided if gaps exist.
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects and budgets within a hospital or similar complex environment.
- Strong organisational, communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
- Knowledge of health and safety regulations relating to hospital estates.
Benefits
- Competitive salary commensurate with Band 7.
- Pay range £49,387 - £56,515 per annum.
- Flexible working options are considered for all MKUH roles.
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