# Band 8D Chief Engineer > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8d-chief-engineer/6387828d-09d2-41fb-8063-d19623de635e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8d-chief-engineer/6387828d-09d2-41fb-8063-d19623de635e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Salary:** £103,102 - £117,560 per annum, including HCAS - **Contract type:** 24 months (2 year fixed term contract, at least 4 days on site working weekly) - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (At least 4 days on site working weekly) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-27T09:46:15.571Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Chief_Engineer/Chief_Engineer-v8168794 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8168794?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Chief Engineer will take the lead role in delivering compliance and very high-level technical assurance and advice for estates and infrastructure across several large acute hospital sites across a broad portfolio of premises with varying standards of systems and sources of information. The role will be responsible for the design, implementation and management of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to ensure compliance with legal/ national/ NHS standards, best practice and other Trust-wide policies and processes across the engineering, critical infrastructure and building environments throughout the Group portfolio and wider external commissions. ### Main duties of the job Reporting into the Technical Operations Director, this role is key in achieving Royal Free London Group operational and strategic ambitions. The role is ultimately responsible for ensuring that there is an appropriate assurance framework in place to provide assurance that deliverables are being provided in line with all statutory and mandatory requirements ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Person Specification ### Others **Essential** - Ability to train and teach others and act as workplace mentor and general development of others - Proactive approach to managing performance of contractors - Knowledge and confidence to challenge whilst avoiding conflict - Ability to work under pressure, with an often unpredictable work pattern due to competing demands ### Experience **Essential** - Significant demonstrable experience working as a technical lead at a large complex NHS organisation - A proven leader with proven multidisciplinary estate strategy, engineering, construction, asset management experience - Comprehensive knowledge of contract management - Experience in an acute hospital setting with a demonstrable track record of working with clinicians in the delivery of estates/technical service - In depth knowledge of HBN's, Firecode and HTM's ### Skills and aptitudes **Essential** - Proven ability of leading, directing and liaising/influencing multi-disciplinary design, operational and construction teams along with the ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing at all levels of a complex and diverse organization - Sound constructive and legislative knowledge including research into the use of building design/materials and track record of innovative application - Comprehensive ability to use Autocad & Microsoft Office - Comprehensive ability to use, create, maintain and utilise CAFM systems - Demonstrable ability to deliver clear effective communication on a range of complex scenarios to a broad audience with variable levels of understanding ### Royal Free shared commitments **Essential** - Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments. ### Personal qualities and attributes **Essential** - Need to use significant mental effort to undertake the requirements of the role - Proven expertise to lead, plan, manage, interact with colleagues - Be able to organise workload and manage outcomes to meet planned objectives - Ability to deal with distressing circumstances in an effective manner - Ability to effectively deal with matters pertaining to staff grievance and disciplinary issues ### Education and professional qualifications **Essential** - Educated to degree level or equivalent - Relevant professional registration with the Engineering Council as an Incorporated/Chartered Engineer - Membership of a relevant professional institute, i.e. IHEEM - Relevant Masters level qualification or equivalent experience ## Documents - [fr (pdf, 111.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10487515) - [chief engineer - ps (pdf, 92.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10471758) - [chief engineer - jd (pdf, 238.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10470661) - [allied health professional - benefits, about rfl, shared commitments and governing objectives (pdf, 627.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2752) - [corporate, admin & clerical, other - benefits, about rfl, shared commitments and governing objectives (pdf, 646.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2753) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.