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Head of Projects - M&E, Healthcare
About the Role
We are seeking an exceptional Head of Projects to lead a sizeable capital works and refurbishment portfolio across a busy, operational healthcare estate. With a 15 million annual project pipeline, you will oversee the delivery of complex M&E-driven projects, infrastructure upgrades, backlog maintenance, and refurbishment programmes within a live clinical environment.
This is a role for a leader who is as comfortable in the plant room and on the wards as they are in the boardroom. You'll combine commercial sharpness and P&L experience with operational visibility, ensuring your team of three Project Managers is supported, aligned, and delivering excellence across multiple hospital sites.
Clear, proactive communication will be absolutely critical-engaging with estates teams, ward managers, and clinical leads to ensure works are coordinated safely, sensitively, and with minimal disruption to patient care.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight for all M&E capital works and refurbishment programmes.
- Manage and grow a 15m pipeline, ensuring strong commercial performance, compliance, and client satisfaction.
- Full P&L ownership for the projects function-budgeting, forecasting, commercial governance, and reporting.
- Drive new business opportunities and develop additional project streams across the estate.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of three Project Managers, ensuring consistency and best practice.
- Maintain high visibility on site-ensuring safe delivery within live clinical environments and resolving complex technical or logistical challenges.
- Act as a key communication bridge between project delivery teams and hospital stakeholders, ensuring regular, clear, and proactive updates.
- Oversee programme management, risk control, CDM compliance, and contractor performance.
About You
- Strong track record leading M&E or technical project delivery teams-ideally within healthcare or other live, safety-critical environments.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to navigate clinical settings respectfully and effectively.
- Commercially minded, experienced in managing a P&L and driving business growth.
- Hands-on leadership style-comfortable balancing strategic oversight with on-the-ground involvement.
- Strong understanding of capital works processes, M&E systems, and project governance.
- Confident managing complex programmes and multiple concurrent workstreams.
What's on Offer
- Salary up to 90,000
- Car allowance
- Performance bonus
- Opportunities for fast-tracked personal development on the contract
- Opportunity to lead a significant capital investment programme with direct impact on patient and staff environments
For more information apply or call / email our dedicated consultant.
RG Setsquare is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
