Senior Estates Officer - Mechanical

Working Full time: 37.5 hours per week An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and technically skilled Senior Estates Officer (Mechanical Bias) to join the Estates &​ Facilities team. Reporting to the Head of Estates, the post holder will take a lead role in the operational management and technical delivery of Estates Engineering Services across the Trust.

The role is focused on ensuring the safe, efficient, and compliant operation of engineering systems and infrastructure, supporting the delivery of high-quality patient care. The post holder will provide specialist expertise in mechanical discipline, acting as a senior technical authority and Authorised/Responsible Person where appropriate.

You will lead a team of estates staff and contractors, ensuring that all planned and reactive maintenance, statutory compliance, and engineering performance requirements are met. The role requires strong leadership, sound technical judgement, and the ability to manage complex issues in a busy healthcare environment.

This is a key operational role, with responsibility for maintaining critical services, supporting capital developments, and contributing to the resilience and continuous improvement of the Trust’s estate.

The Senior Estates Officer will lead the day-to-day operational delivery of Estates Engineering Services, ensuring a safe, reliable and compliant healthcare environment.

Key responsibilities include managing planned preventative and reactive maintenance, prioritising work based on clinical risk and service impact, and providing technical leadership in either mechanical or electrical disciplines.

The post holder will oversee critical systems such as HVAC, medical gases, water systems, HV/LV distribution, standby generation and building management systems, acting as a senior escalation point for complex faults and service interruptions.

They will ensure compliance with statutory legislation, HTMs and relevant standards, and undertake condition surveys, asset validation and performance reviews.

The role includes leading the technical delivery of capital and minor works, acting as Authorised/Responsible Person where required, and managing estates staff and contractors to ensure safe and effective service delivery.

The post holder will also participate in the on-call rota and act as the first-line Estates lead during incidents, supporting emergency and major incident response.

The Trust’s services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 473 general and acute beds.
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 60 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust employs 5,964 staff (headcount) to provide care and treatment to a population of over 400,000 people living in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire.

The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System. Due to its location on the border with North Wales, the Trust also works closely with the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

The Trust treats patients from England and some parts of Wales. During 2024/2025, there were approximately 643,000 patient attendances (inpatient, A&​E, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Joe Astley Job title: Head of Estates Email address: joe.astley@nhs.net Telephone number: 01244 365 318