Estates Manager (Building Management Systems) | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are seeking an experienced Estates Manager (BMS & Energy Management Systems) to provide Trust-wide leadership, oversight, and accountability for all Building Management Systems and energy management activities. The post holder will be responsible for the operational and strategic management of BMS across multiple sites, ensuring systems are optimised to support safe clinical environments, statutory compliance, energy efficiency, and carbon reduction objectives. Working closely with senior estates colleagues, clinical teams, and external contractors, the role will lead on performance monitoring, fault analysis, system optimisation, and continuous improvement, while reducing reliance on reactive contractor support and ensuring best value from existing infrastructure. This is a key role in supporting patient care environments, operational resilience, and financial sustainability across the Trust estate.

Experience with Building Management Systems is essential for this role.
The post holder will provide Trust-wide management and leadership of Building Management Systems (BMS) and energy management systems, ensuring they are operated safely, efficiently, and in compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements. Key duties include overseeing the performance, optimisation, and resilience of BMS supporting clinical and non-clinical environments; proactively monitoring alarms, trends, and system data to identify faults and inefficiencies; leading energy optimisation initiatives to reduce consumption, cost, and carbon impact; managing and performance-monitoring external BMS and specialist contractors; supporting planned preventative maintenance, minor works, and system upgrades; providing technical advice and assurance to senior estates colleagues; contributing to compliance with relevant HTMs, Health and Safety legislation, and Trust policies; producing performance, energy, and compliance reports; and working collaboratively with clinical, facilities, and
estates teams to ensure building systems support safe, comfortable, and reliable patient care environments across the Trust.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two buy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review documents attached to ensure you familiarise yourself with all requirements of the job.
The Estates Manager (BMS) will be responsible for the Trust-wide operational and strategic management of all Building Management Systems and associated energy management systems, ensuring they support safe, compliant, efficient, and resilient clinical environments. The post holder will provide a single point of accountability for BMS performance across all sites, leading the monitoring, optimisation, and analysis of system alarms, trends, and data to proactively identify faults, inefficiencies, and risks; manage and performance-monitor external BMS and specialist contractors to ensure value for money and compliance with contractual and statutory requirements; support the delivery of planned preventative maintenance, reactive maintenance, minor works, and system upgrades; provide specialist technical advice and assurance to senior estates colleagues; contribute to compliance with relevant Health Technical Memoranda, Health and Safety legislation, and Trust policies; support energy
efficiency and carbon reduction initiatives through effective system control and optimisation; produce reports on system performance, energy usage, faults, and risks; liaise closely with clinical, facilities, and estates teams to minimise disruption and ensure continuity of services; and contribute to emergency planning, fault response, and continuous improvement of building systems to support patient safety, comfort, and service delivery across the Trust estate.