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Technical Services Lead - Birmingham, West Midlands County

Job details
Posting date: 15 May 2025
Salary: £50,401 per year
Additional salary information: Competitive
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 28 May 2025
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands County, B16 8TP
Company: Housing 21
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 1103502

Summary

Technical Services Lead
Location: Home Based
Salary: £50,401 per annum
Hours: Full time - 35 hours per week/ 70 hours over two weeks (nine-day fortnight)

The role

We are currently looking to recruit a Technical Services Lead to join our Group Property Compliance team here at Housing 21.

Within the role you will work alongside Property Compliance, Asset Management, Health and Safety and Operational colleagues at all levels to effectively triage, track and report on water management processes.

You will support and oversee the effective management, planning and delivery of actions arising from water hygiene risk assessments and water hygiene visits. Building and maintaining working relationships with operational teams to promote confidence and raise the level of technical awareness. As well as provide advice, support, and training, when necessary, across a range of technical areas and manage the delivery of a programme of third party audits.

While the role is home based the successful candidate will be required to attend team meetings including those held from our head office in Birmingham as required.
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What we’re looking for

The essential requirements for the role include:

• Practical hands-on experience of working within at least 1 (ideally more) of the big 6 compliance areas in a technical role - technician, engineer, risk assessor, account manager, compliance officer or similar
• Knowledge and experience of current asset compliance big 6 legislation regulation and best practice
• Knowledge of property maintenance and H & S legislation and best practice
• Experience of information gathering, development and monitoring of trackers/systems and reporting
• Demonstrable experience of managing processes, ideally in a housing and/or health and safety environment
• Experience of working collaboratively with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders to solve problems
• Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience
• Specific training in water hygiene management such as P901 Management and control of building water systems, City & Guilds; CIBSE or HABC

Why us?

We support our employees to do what they do best, whether that’s through flexible working, learning new skills or being part of a friendly and supportive workplace culture. We also offer a great benefits package including Blue Light Card discount, holiday trade scheme, volunteer days, Occupational Sick Pay, Occupational Maternity Pay and more.

As part of our commitment to our employees and offering flexibility, we now offer a nine-day fortnight, providing employees with the opportunity to work their hours across nine days and have a three-day weekend every other week. Further details on how this works will be discussed with successful candidates upon an offer being made.

Closing date for applications: 28 May 2025

Due to the nature of this role this advert may close earlier than the closing date listed and once sufficient applications have been received. Please apply early to avoid disappointment.