Operational & Maintenance Supervisor (Electrical)

The post holder will be responsible for the Trust’s Day to day running of the Estates electrical and mechanical operations. Elements of the service will require out of normal working hours attendance for either planned or reactive measures. The responsibilities will have line management duties across operational estates team including providing electrical knowledge to manage and maintain the Trust's electrical and mechanical technical team.
- Responsible for providing Electrical knowledge to manage and maintain the Trust's electrical and mechanical technical team.
- Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice and technical guidance.
- Maintain and ensure their implementation, conducting communication exercises and providing technical guidance.
- Ensure adequate controls (risk assessments, PPE etc) are in place for operational and technical purposes.
- Ensure completed PPM’s, service sheets are updated to the PAM (premises assurance model) drive.
- Ensure that estates staff are provided with continual effective communication.
- To be prepared to supervise work that may need to be carried outside of normal working hours. This will from time to time require you to work evenings, nights or weekends in addition to, or as alternative to your standard working hours. Flexibility is therefore an essential requirement of the position.
- To be prepared to respond to emergency work outside normal working hours as and when the need is required in relation to the repair and service of site wide physical assets.

Pay - Band 6 plus enhancements as applicable.

£35,392 - £42,618

Hours - Annualised

(27 days leave plus 8 Bank holidays, this increases after 5 years’ service to 29 days and after 10 years’ service to 33 days plus bank holidays)

Will also be expected to take part in an on call rota.

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

Organisation and distribution of Pre-Planned Maintenance Tasks to the in-house maintenance & operations team.
Collate completed Pre-Planned Maintenance Task worksheets, review information, identify and raise and any remedial actions and file information onto the estate’s electronic drives.
Liaise with Clinical/Medical colleagues and specialist external contractors to complete both pre-planned and reactive tasks while maintaining critical patient services and treatment.
Motivate and encourage all maintenance staff to provide a responsive, caring, and disciplined service to the Hospital end users.
Promote a flexible working relationship across all estates trade disciplines.
Organise resources, labour, transport, and materials effectively and efficiently.
Authorising and approving orders and invoices in line with trust policies and standing financial instructions.
Assisting the Infrastructure Managers in the monitoring & controlling of the Estates Maintenance Budgets.
Formalise and carry out an agreed system of monitoring staff to ensure acceptable standards of productivity and quality of finished product. (Eg. Quality assurance checks to ensure standardisation and quality of workmanship)
To act as an Authorised Person for drug dispensing system. i.e., Piped Medical gas in line with HTM 02-01
To act as an Authorised Person (Low Voltage) in line with HTM 06-02 for the isolation and safe working on electrical systems. i.e., Standby Generator and associated switch gear.
Ensure all statutory and NHS codes of practice and appropriate Permit to Work and Safe Systems of Work are complied with by all staff, both directly employed and specialist external contractors, and appropriate information (Eg. Risk Assessments, Method statements, Competencies and relevant insurances are appropriate and in place)
Ensure that all operational and maintenance staff have received appropriate theoretical and practical training for the functions they undertake.
Review, interpret and appreciate complex data and situations. Data will include comparisons particularly with regard to electrical systems and take into account Statutory Regulation’s, HTM's, HBN’s.
Complex analyses and investigations to resolve issues, taking into consideration legislation and