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Principal Engineer

ISS Facility Services
Birmingham
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Principal Engineer

Contract: Healthcare

Location: Birmingham / Home\-based, with regular travel across the North East, East Kilbride, London and Reading

Hours of work: 40

Contract Type: Permanent

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to provide senior technical leadership across our healthcare accounts, ensuring that engineering systems, infrastructure and compliance frameworks meet statutory, safety, performance and contractual standards.

This role plays a critical part in supporting safe patient care environments while delivering authoritative engineering guidance aligned to national NHS engineering governance and ISS technical standards.

Job Description

We are looking for a senior technical professional who will act as a trusted authority to the Healthcare Senior Leadership Team, NHS Trusts and key stakeholders.

The postholder will lead assurance activity, investigate technical issues, challenge poor practice and drive continuous technical excellence across healthcare accounts.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide senior technical leadership across healthcare accounts, ensuring compliance with statutory, safety and contractual requirements

  • Interpret compliance gaps and develop rectification and recovery plans for Key Asset Performance Documents (KAPDs)

  • Deliver engineering assurance reviews and agree action plans with Account Technical Leads and Key Account Directors

  • Lead operational technical investigations and provide clear, evidence\-based outcomes

  • Produce high\-quality engineering reports for SPVs, NHS Trusts and regulatory bodies

  • Challenge poor practice and enforce engineering discipline and Safe Systems of Work (SSOW)

  • Build and maintain trusted relationships with SPVs, NHS estates teams and clinical stakeholders

  • Promote and sustain technical excellence across all healthcare engineering environments
Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications
  • Chartered Engineer (CEng) status through a recognised institution (e.g. IMechE, IET, CIBSE, IHEEM)

  • Strong experience working within healthcare engineering environments

  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess risk, identify non\-compliance and develop proportionate, compliant solutions

  • Ability to read, analyse and produce procedural and operational documentation

  • Proven capability to interpret NHS, governmental and technical regulations

  • Ability to explore complex situations, evaluate options and formulate effective plans that meet or exceed objectives

  • Must hold full UK driving licence \- regular travel to client sites (car/car allowance provided)
The Company

ISS is a world\-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. \#Becomewhoyouwant, \#Bepartofsomethingbigger,
\#aplacetobeyou,
\#facilitiesmanagement

ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.

We are proud to be a Gold Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) award holder and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, recognising our commitment to supporting veterans, reservists, and military families. Through our Joint Forces Programme, we provide mentoring and support to members of the Armed Forces community and their spouses as they transition into civilian careers.

We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2\) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.

If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team by emailing resourcing.team@uk.issworld.com

If you are interested in learning about other opportunities at ISS, please join our Talent community by clicking on the following link: TalentPlace

To find out more about what we do \- https://www.uk.issworld.com/

Work Location: In person

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