Senior Infrastructure Programme Manager (Engineering & Energy)

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.

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.