About this role
Job summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Programme Manager to lead the delivery of major engineering, energy and infrastructure programmes across our hospital estate.
Our Estates Redevelopment Team delivers complex capital projects that are critical to the future resilience, sustainability and operation of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust's estate. We are looking for a technical leader who can provide engineering oversight, programme leadership and operational integration across major infrastructure investments. Current projects include the reconfiguration and renewal of the high-voltage electrical infrastructure at Lewisham University Hospital and the decarbonisation and replacement of the Trust's ageing steam heating systems.
This is a client-side delivery role, requiring strong technical knowledge, programme management capability and stakeholder leadership. You will ensure projects are delivered safely and effectively within a live healthcare environment.
You will work closely with consultants, contractors, project managers, Estates teams, clinical leaders and senior Trust stakeholders from design development through construction, commissioning and operational handover.
This role would suit an experienced infrastructure, engineering or energy professional who enjoys working across technical, operational and commercial interfaces, and who can translate complex engineering projects into successful operational outcomes.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the day-to-day delivery of major engineering, energy and infrastructure programmes from business case to operational handover.
- Act as the Trust's lead client-side representative and intelligent client for major infrastructure projects.
- Coordinate consultants, contractors, project managers and technical advisers to ensure successful delivery.
- Manage the interface between project teams and hospital operations, ensuring clinical services remain safe and resilient throughout construction and commissioning activities.
- Plan and coordinate major outages, service transitions, commissioning activities and operational readiness processes.
- Work closely with Estates, clinical and operational teams to minimise disruption and ensure safe delivery.
- Lead technical reviews, stakeholder workshops and commissioning activities.
- Monitor programme risks, dependencies and interfaces, resolving issues and escalating decisions where required.
- Review and challenge technical proposals, designs and delivery strategies.
- Support the delivery of the Trust's estate transformation, resilience, sustainability and net zero objectives.
- Prepare programme reports, governance papers and briefings for senior stakeholders.
- Provide technical leadership and oversight throughout project delivery, ensuring safe, effective and compliant implementation of major investments.
- Commercial and contractual management
- Contribute to the development of programme management, technical and operational readiness processes.
About us
Please refer to the Applicant Guide via the link below for key information:- Applying to LGT Guide - Key Information for Applicants
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for the full detail of the position. For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Iona Norton.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Masters degree in Engineering, Building Services, Energy, Construction, Infrastructure or related discipline or equivalent work experience.
- Relevant professional qualification, project or programme management qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Chartered Engineer status, professional membership (IET, CIBSE, IHEEM, ICE or equivalent)
- Healthcare engineering qualifications
Experience
Essential
- Significant proven experience delivering major infrastructure projects
- Experience managing multidisciplinary engineering and delivery teams
- Experience coordinating multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups within large, complex capital programmes
- Experience acting as a client-side representative, intelligent client or programme delivery lead
- Experience of commissioning and operational handover
- Experience leading operational readiness activities for major infrastructure programmes
- Experience working with diverse range of contractors and consultants
- Experience delivering major electrical infrastructure, energy infrastructure or critical engineering systems
- Proven ability to manage complex technical stakeholders
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrable leadership and influencing skills
Desirable
- Healthcare infrastructure experience
- Experience contract managing high value contracts
- Experience of energy infrastructure and heat pump systems
- Experience of high voltage electrical infrastructure projects
- Experience acting as an Owner's Engineer or Intelligent Client representative
- Experience delivering projects on live operational sites
Special Knowledge / Expertise
Essential
- Understanding of major building and engineering infrastructure systems
- Strong knowledge of design, construction and commissioning processes
- Understanding of infrastructure risk management
- Understanding of different contract structures
- Able to operate effectively in a highly complex and changing environment
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making capability
- Commitment to delivering safe, resilient and sustainable healthcare infrastructure
- Understanding of sustainability and decarbonisation principles, systems and strategies within major infrastructure programmes
Desirable
- Knowledge of public procurement processes
- Experience supporting net zero or energy transition infrastructure programmes
Disposition, Adjustment, Attitude Commitment
Essential
- Ability to adopt a flexible approach to work
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to deal effectively and appropriately with people at all levels
Practical/Intellectual skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse complex engineering information
- Ability to challenge and review technical proposals
- Strong report writing and presentation skills
- Excellent planning and organisational capability
- Ability to prioritise workload and deliver under pressure
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address
University Hospital Lewisham
London
SE13 6LH
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)