Technical Officer - Leeds, United Kingdom - A.L.L Recruitment Ltd

Description

Technical Officer (Housing)

Experience in a construction related field or housing repair/adaptation is essential, as is the ability to produce schedule of works, ideally understanding the needs of vulnerable clients, including disabled, older people and children.

Knowledge and experience of disabled adaptations would be an advantage.

Our client is the Home Improvement Agency for Leeds, highly regarded for providing a range of services for older and disabled people to help them to remain living independently in their own homes.

As an independent Registered Society with charitable status covering the whole of the Leeds Metropolitan District area, we have been providing services since 1987.

They are expanding their Technical Department, providing an exciting opportunity for you to join this dynamic team responsible for providing home adaptations and technical services to support clients to stay safe, secure, warm, and independent in their own home.

The role will work closely with a wide range of clients, architectural design services, contractors, Leeds City Council, and health and social care organisations.

You will have responsibility for managing several cases simultaneously, from inception and design, through to delivery and completion, ensuring that programme, quality, cost, and health & safety targets are achieved in accordance with the build programme.

Also, you will have responsibility for training and managing the daily tasks of the Assistant Technical Officers.

Knowledge of current planning and building regulation practices, health and safety legislation (CDM 2015 requirements), as well as experience of monitoring contractor's performance and quality is essential.

Experience of managing projects of varying size/complexity and meeting client expectations, is also a key requirement.


You will be expected to:

• Coordinate stakeholders to meet the production programme
• Work in conjunction with architects, planning departments, clients and other professional services and ensure inspections of all ongoing projects are carried out assigned to you.
• Ensure that the onsite Contractors team is fully competent and welldirected, with clear guidelines to their own job responsibilities, and are provided with full support in achieving these, in terms of communication and the organisation of the site's workload and resources
• Be responsible for delivering excellent customer service to customers in line with company guidelines

A working knowledge of Microsoft Office software is essential, and use of AutoCAD software would be an advantage.

Minimum HNC/HND building related qualification is desirable, but consideration will be given to those who can demonstrate the relevant role experience.

If you are a proactive individual, have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, gain satisfaction from helping others, enjoy challenge and change, with an openness and adaptability to ensure various client's needs are met and to give them choices of outcomes, we would like to hear from you.

Hours: 37 hours per week. Hybrid working and flexi-time system in place


Salary:
£30,000 - £35,000 per annum depending on experience


Pension:
Auto-enrolment into the Social Housing Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution to a maximum of 5%


Holiday: 25 days p.a. increasing to 29 days after 4 years' service, plus 8 statutory holidays


Benefits:

Work phone. Works laptop/tablet & twin monitor workstation. Manage own diary. Mileage allowance 45p per mile up to 10,000 miles


Location:
Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS8 4HT


Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Salary:
£30,000.00-£35,000.00 per year


Benefits:

• Flexitime

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Leeds,

West Yorkshire:
reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)


Work Location:
One location