Leeds City Council
Senior Electrical Officer
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Senior Electrical Officer
Salary: PO2 £41,177 to £44,253
Hours: 37
Contract: Permanent
Location: Main office - Print Unit, 7 Limewood Approach, Seacroft, Leeds LS14 1NG. However, you may be required to work from any office location within the city. Hybrid working will also be offered.
Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 14,000 employees. We seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council values and ambitions.
About You
As a Senior Electrical Officer, you will bring to the role:
- Electrical technical skills, knowledge, and experience
- Experience in contract and performance management
- Experience of leading and developing high performing technical teams
- Ability to implement and manage technical compliance programmes and projects, adapting to changing circumstances and priorities
- Ability to build relationships and communicate with stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to drive organisational strategy, policy, and culture with a focus on a customer-centric approach to service delivery
- Ability to analyse and interpret information and data, identify common trends, change needs, risks, and learning outcomes, providing high-level reports and presentations to a wide range of stakeholders
About The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, forward-thinking, motivated, innovative, and hardworking individual to join the asset management team.
The post holder will hold the position of Senior Electrical Officer within the Asset Management Directorate. The position is an operational management position and will be responsible for managing effective delivery of electrical services. As part of the role, you will utilize current skills, knowledge, and experiences to support compliance activities, provide technical guidance, and produce reports ensuring the service provides excellence. A strong leader with a ‘can do’ attitude in-line with the Council's manager habits, excellent communication skills, and a strong customer focus is required. An ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and have a clear focus on staff engagement is essential.
You will have operational lead and accountability for the management of electrical services and stakeholders. We are looking for someone who will ensure that high levels of efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and quality are achieved, whilst ensuring maximum performance in accordance with the targets, standards, and policies of the Council. The role will require you to work closely with other internal teams to ensure that all electrical services, complaints, and enquiries are managed effectively mitigating any risk to the Council.
The post-holder will support the delivery of service plans and ensure the continuous and ongoing innovation and improvement of the service. The role requires a customer-focused post holder as the position will involve a high degree of customer interaction and face-to-face contact with tenants, elected members, contractors, and colleagues across the Council. The role will be flexible involving both site and office-based works. It should be noted that the demands of property management services are high, and therefore, the role requires a high degree of flexibility to meet the ever-changing priorities of the service.
The team works flexibly to meet service needs with our base of operations at the Printworks on Limewood Approach. As part of our flexible working strategy, the team also works in any location within the Leeds City Council geographical area. This is a challenging but rewarding role and an exciting opportunity for someone that is looking to develop their career.
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What We Offer You
We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:
- A competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays
- Membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements subject to service requirements
- A clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities
- A range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further
How To Apply
Apply for this job online. Please complete the online application form.
Read our guidance for further advice. Please check your information carefully and ensure you complete all sections before submitting your application.
If you have any queries or would like an informal chat about the role, please contact Russell Brown, Electrical Services Manager on email russell.brown@leeds.gov.uk.
We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans, as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled, and care experienced people.
This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme, or having secured any other relevant work visa.
If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visa route before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship, you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria. Ensure you are eligible before applying.
Job Description
Job purpose
The role will involve the provision of electrical technical services to Housing Leeds. Including, but not limited to:
- Ensuring the effective day-to-day management of contractors and Internal Service Providers to ensure that any service works are delivered in a timely, costly, and compliant manner
- Implementing and managing programmes of work in-line with available resources to ensure that overall compliance with legislation, regulation, values, policies, and priorities is achieved to meet quality standards
- Acting as a technical expert for the service. Supporting the electrical services manager through electrical enquiries, complaints, site surveys, policy/legal reviews, technical scopes, and specifications and where requested providing detailed reports
- The responsibility for delivering a proactive cross-service approach to meeting electrical compliance and for the timely resolution of risks
- The post-holder will be required to work flexibly and could be deployed in a number of areas of the service
Responsibilities
- Technical lead for the frontline delivery of the service in-line with council and departmental performance standards, values, policies, and priorities. Ensure all activities undertaken are done so in compliance with legal, regulatory, contractual, and internal requirements
- Support the delivery of service plans and operational projects in collaboration with stakeholders to ensure the continuous and ongoing innovation and improvement of the service in-line with council objectives in order to achieve excellence
- Continually drive a value for money, customer-focused service
- Take ownership for and manage relationships with all stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient service delivery
- Manage activities within individual delegated budgets and the management of spend in-line with agreed budget profiles, including the prioritization and planning of work
- Take accountability for the outputs of all duties ensuring adequate and robust audit and risk management procedures are in place
- The duties outlined are not meant as an exhaustive list and will also comprise any other duties within the spirit of the post commensurate with the job evaluation outcome for this post
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Leadership Responsibilities
- To lead, manage, motivate, and develop team members in accordance with council policies and employment laws, and ensure that relevant procedures are understood and followed
- To ensure that the team works professionally, competently, and in a forward-thinking and customer-focused way whilst embracing collaborative partnership working in order to achieve excellence
- To demonstrate and embed the council Values and Manager Habits to lead, support, and drive cultural change
- To ensure you and the team work professionally, competently, and demonstrate a ‘can do’ approach to their thinking and problem-solving
- To work collaboratively and in partnership with partners and stakeholders
- To support the achievement of Equality and Diversity in both employment and service delivery including the promotion of equality of opportunity
- To deputise for the Electrical Services Manager and undertake any other reasonable duties as required
Please note this is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities.
Essential requirements
It is essential that the candidate should be able to demonstrate the following criteria for the post. Candidates will only be shortlisted for interview if they can demonstrate that they meet all the essential requirements or have relevant experience.
- Minimum building/construction-related qualification to HNC/HND level or equivalent experience
- Degree level qualification in Building Surveying/Construction-related or equivalent experience
- Qualified Electrical Engineer to NVQ level 3/C&G 2391
- A detailed knowledge of electrical services, installation, and maintenance
- Landlord’s responsibilities in relation to repairs & maintenance
- Construction Health & Safety
- A knowledge of standard forms of contracts
- Ability to manage priorities whilst delivering on a range of projects and adapting to changing circumstances and priorities
- Ability to diagnose and develop solutions to electrical problems
- Ability to develop and maintain strong and effective working relationships with stakeholders
- Experience of negotiation on issues in a political environment
- Ability to analyse and interpret information and report to a wide range of audiences in an accurate manner
- Chairing meetings effectively
- Appropriate delegation of workloads
- Strong resilience and a ‘can do’ attitude to overcoming barriers
- Supporting on partnership and multi-agency working
- Managing medium-large projects/programmes of work within defined budgets
- Considerable experience of problem-solving involving complex issues
- Experience of managing and leading a team
- Experience of working within a complex political environment
- Considerable experience of using Microsoft packages and IT systems
- Managing Construction contracts
Essential Behavioural & Other Characteristics
- Understand and embrace Leeds City Council Values and Behaviours and codes of conduct
- Committed to continuous improvement in all areas and work towards delivering the Best City Ambition of Health & Wellbeing, Inclusive Growth, and Zero Carbon
- Able to understand and observe Leeds City Council equality and diversity policies
- Carry out
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