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Job Title: Head of Gas and Electrical Operations
Head Office Location: Brindley Place, Birmingham
Job Location: B1 2JB - Some hybrid working and travel to group GSA offices as appropriate.
Salary - £77,000 per annum
Contract type - Permanent
Working hours - Full time - 37hours
Closing date - 03/11/2024
Interview date - TBC
About the role
GreenSquareAccord has a legal duty to ensure our properties and customers` homes are well maintained and safe. We must adhere to pertinent regulations to service and maintain gas, electric and fossil fuel appliances within our properties. This role will be responsible for the delivery of electrical testing and repairs, gas and oil heating servicing and repair and replacement in properties GreenSquare own, and provide a Management function for the team as a whole. A great deal of diligence is required to plan and monitor our progress to ensure GreenSquareAccord are compliant at all times.
You will ensure we adhere to relevant service and maintenance standards, maintaining 100% compliance with service and inspections cycles and meeting our KPI metrics.
You will ensure that your team works safely at all times and keeps our residents safe. Delivering timely repairs and maintenance and planned investment programmes to minimise disruption.
You will be used to managing large budgets and operating a trading account to demonstrate value for money of services provided.
Please note that if you are successful in this role, we will require a DBS check to be completed. Further details will be sent following offer.
About you
You will have a proven track record of leading multi-disciplinary teams and dispersed field based services.
You will be disciplined within an associated mechanical and electrical field of expertise and all aspects of its regulation and safety standards.
You will have excellent communication skills and have a good working knowledge of the domestic housing market and the operations and regulation of registered housing providers and a good understanding of technical requirements associated with mechanical and electrical installations.
Please note that if you are successful in this role, we will require evidence of the required certificates and qualifications for this role. Without this evidence, you would be unable to commence employment at GreenSquareAccord.
About us
GreenSquareAccord is one of the biggest social housing and care providers in England.
We believe passionately in our mission to build better lives and provide social housing and support services to 54,000 people across our four localities. We are proud to play an active role in helping people to deal with the consequences of the housing crisis by providing affordable homes for people in our communities who need them most.
We also provide care and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society. This includes support for people who are homeless, experiencing domestic violence or are part of the criminal justice system.
Our purpose
We are proud to be able to support tens of thousands of people across England by providing affordable housing and care to help people live independently.
Our focus is on building better lives. Everything we do is about people - whether that`s providing a good quality, safe home or providing care which helps someone to live an independent life.
Our colleagues live and breathe this social purpose and we need great people, with skills across a range of disciplines, to make this happen.
Working for GreenSquareAccord gives you the chance to bring your skills and expertise and make a real difference. It doesn`t matter which role you are considering applying for, your work will help thousands of people build a better life.
The GSA Way
We know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. To help us make a difference, together, we created the GSA Way.
A culture we commit to, aspire to, and live and breathe. Commitments and behaviours which together make our organisation what it is.
Our five core commitments are:
- We believe our customer is everything
- We are one team
- We are supportive and caring
- We are business-minded for social purpose
- We are curious and ambitious.
Benefits
In support and recognition of our colleagues who will help us deliver our employer strategy, we offer a fantastic benefits package. This includes; annual holiday entitlement (plus statutory bank holidays); a defined contribution pension scheme; trust based flexible working and a Confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
GreenSquareAccord also offer a non-contractual performance-related bonus scheme. Further details will be made available upon joining, along with supporting documentation which can be found on the GreenSquareAccord intranet site.
How to apply
If this sounds like the exciting new challenge you`ve been waiting for, we`d love to hear from you. Please no agency contact and any approaches will not be responded to.
If you wish to apply for this role please email a copy of your up to date CV to (url removed) .
All individuals who apply to work at GreenSquareAccord are considered on their merits in line with our Diversity and Inclusion strategy and policy.
GreenSquareAccord are a Disability Confident Employer therefore we actively encourage applications from individuals with disabilities and try to provide access, adjustments, equipment or other practical support where required. All applicants with a disability who meet the `essential eligibility criteria` for the role, as detailed in the job description, are guaranteed an interview.
If you need any assistance, adjustments or adaptations throughout our selection processes please let us know.
Close Date for applications:
03/11/2024
