Validation Engineer

Role: AP(Vent) / CP(Vent) - Healthcare Ventilation Compliance
Location: Kent
Contract Type: Permanent
Sector: Healthcare Ventilation / Building Services / Compliance
Salary: £50,000

A specialist healthcare engineering and compliance provider is seeking an experienced AP(Vent) / CP(Vent) professional to deliver authorised ventilation verification, testing, certification, and compliance assurance across live healthcare environments.

This role is critical to ensuring ventilation systems meet HTM 03-01 and associated healthcare standards, supporting safe operation, handover, and ongoing compliance within high-risk clinical environments.

The successful candidate will act as the competent person responsible for verifying critical ventilation systems and liaising with estates, clinical, and project stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out ventilation verification testing on new, refurbished, and existing healthcare ventilation systems
• Verify airflow volumes (supply, extract, transfer) and air change rates (ACH)
• Assess and confirm pressure regimes and pressure cascades in positive and negative pressure environments
• Undertake room integrity testing where applicable
• Verify temperature and humidity performance
• Test alarms, interlocks, and failsafe systems via BMS and local controls
• Verify system performance against design intent, HTM 03-01 requirements, and site policies
• Witness and validate commissioning activities, including review of test sheets, commissioning plans, O&M manuals, and handover documentation
• Produce compliance documentation, verification reports, certification packs, and non-conformance logs
• Liaise with Estates teams, IPC, clinical users, M&E contractors, commissioning engineers, and project management teams
• Ensure all test equipment is calibrated, traceable, and audit-ready
• Work safely in live healthcare environments, complying with RAMS, permits, infection control procedures, and site protocols
• Support project handover and ongoing compliance activities

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience delivering ventilation verification within live healthcare estates
• Proven background in hospital ventilation testing and certification
• Strong working knowledge of HTM 03-01 and pressure cascade principles
• Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, schematics, and technical documentation
• Excellent written reporting skills with a clear, auditable approach
• Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple sites or projects

Qualifications

Essential

• Current AP(Vent) or CP(Vent) appointment and/or recognised HTM 03-01 ventilation certification
• Relevant building services or mechanical engineering qualification, or equivalent experience

Desirable

• CIBSE commissioning knowledge or qualification
• CSCS, IOSH, or SSSTS
• IPAF / PASMA
• Experience validating theatre ventilation and other critical environments

What s on Offer

• Permanent role with a long-term healthcare project pipeline
• Competitive salary aligned to market rates
• Company vehicle or travel allowance (role dependent)
• Pension and holiday entitlement
• Ongoing professional development and re-certification support