Optimisation Manager
| Posting date: | 25 July 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 August 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle upon Tyne (Strawberry Lane), NE1 4BX |
| Company: | Home Group Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 251175 |
Summary
Optimisation Manager
Hybrid working; One Strawberry Lane, Newcastle Upon Tyne from home and across our property portfolio
Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)
Salary circa: £43,000 per annum (negotiable depending on experience) plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan!
Home, a place where you belong
Ready to use your technical skills to cut carbon, reduce waste and save money for thousands of households (56,000 in fact!)? Join us in our exciting new role of Optimisation Manager and take the lead in making our heat networks greener, more efficient, and fully compliant with OFGEM rules and regulations. You’ll be hands-on, surveying systems, analysing data, and turning reports into smart, practical improvements.
This is your chance to make a real difference, helping to reduce energy waste, improve system performance, and keep costs down for our customers.The roles a great mix of detective work, smart analysis, and practical action!
Typical day as Optimisation Manager
- Carrying out system surveys, analysing data and reviewing reports, to spot where our heating and cooling networks can do better. You'll use your experience of communal or industrial gas systems and plant rooms to provide guidance and key technical information to improve performance for clear optimisation plans that shape short and long-term action.
- Keeping a well-maintained database of technical records across our heat network portfolio including systems, technology and building fabric. You’ll provide an accurate picture of how our heat networks are performing, guiding our customers, colleagues, and Senior Leadership teams.
- You link data with grant opportunities, helping us unlock extra funding to stretch our investments further.
- Tracking and sharing the impact of every improvement, so we know what’s working and that our customers feel the benefit. You keep our customers informed, working closely with our Heat Networks Manager so they are aware of changes and how it benefits them.
- Keeping up to date with the latest updates from OFGEM and other regulators to make sure we always remain compliant.
Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better. You’ll do that here, working for a top 10 Great Place to Work in the UK Employer!
You have
- Experience working with heat networks or district heating systems, especially in housing settings or complex buildings.
- A qualification in Commercial Gas Engineering (or equivalent) and a strong knowledge of plant room engineering, boiler systems and pipework distribution in housing.
- An eye for detail, able to read a technical report, analyse data to spot risks / opportunities, and shape a strong action plan to drive improvements.
- A natural problem-solver who keeps one eye on compliance, one on the customer, and one on future innovation (yes – that’s three eyes, You get the idea!)
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review.
Our team
Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills, and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!
Job details
- 37.5 hours per week. You’ll manage your own diary.
- This is a hybrid role, and you’ll spend a minimum of two days in the office, others working at home or across our property locations where required.
- Able to use technology for record keeping data analysis and reporting.
- A full current driving licence as you will be required to travel around our property portfolio and we’ll cover your mileage to do that.
A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers, and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!
What’s in it for you?
- 34 days leave (including bank holidays and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39 days leave, able to buy 5 days leave and time off for volunteering!
- Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies, and lots more.
- Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary
- Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays, and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike, or car? Save money with us.
- We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
- Explore our benefits in detail on our website.
Find out more
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Finally, let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk
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