Vistry Group
Utilities Coordinator
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Utilities Coordinator Opportunity at Vistry South East Midlands
We have an exciting opportunity for a Utilities Coordinator to join our team within Vistry South East Midlands, at our Enderby office.
Role Overview
As our Utilities Coordinator, you will be responsible for managing the utility connections, statutory authority, and third-party service works from project viability appraisal / inception, through to completion including:
- Requesting quotes
- Assisting commercial colleagues to place orders
- Managing off-site & on-site works
You will identify contractual, financial, technical, and operational risks and find opportunities for value engineering, in order to minimize risk and maximize gross profit on contracts. You will support the fulfilment of the contracts safely, on time, and to the required quality while maximizing gross profit and customers' satisfaction.
You will be part of a team ensuring that all relevant policies including those for SHE, risk management, and solution design are followed.
Benefits
- Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
- Company car, car allowance, or travel allowance
- Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees
- Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service
- 2 Volunteering days per annum
- Private medical insurance, with employee-paid cover
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice
- Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary
- Share save and share incentive schemes
- Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
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Essential:
- Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring, and Quality
- HNC or equivalent
- Knowledge of Utilities legislation
- Working on projects that deliver services for the housebuilding sector
- Understanding of the process to secure POCs and service diversion works
- Understanding of the process of securing services to new developments
- Detailed understanding of all technical aspects of service delivery
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to use MS software
- Demonstrates resilience
- Embrace the company’s core values
- Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it
Desirable:
- Specialist Utilities Qualifications
- Work with a housebuilder in a similar role and/or a MU contractor
Key Responsibilities
- Provide services information (existing and proposed) to assist the appraisal of new business opportunities
- Ensure utility orders are placed in a timely manner and manage their installation to programme
- Agree the strategy with the construction team for completion of utility connections
- Provide support to the commercial department in the procurement of MEP packages via input into enquiry, scopes, reviewing quotations, attending pre-order meetings, etc.
- Provide and communicate each project’s utility programme
- Ensure any comments/queries on the services design are reviewed, and closed out, with the M&E Design Manager
- Support the Commercial department in reviewing payment applications
- Ensure the necessary certification is provided for all connections to obtain PC / completion including witnessing
- Ensure applications for all meters are made and installation managed to programme
- Develop and implement a robust test and inspection regime for all stages
- Develop and implement the project test and commissioning strategy
- Support the site team in securing power and water to site compounds as required
- Attend departmental meetings as required
- Provide all services information for all Gateway meetings as required by the LoS process
- Ensure all relevant stakeholders are kept informed
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To support the construction teams ensuring that services designs and contractor’s RAMS follow Vistry’s SHE policy and procedures, all legal requirements, and best practice within the business unit.
About Vistry
We build more than homes, we’re making Vistry. Being a responsible developer and award-winning employer means we live each day through our ethos - doing the right thing. Our behaviours reflect this, as well as our values of integrity, caring, and quality. Shaping all we do; they empower us to develop sustainable communities across affordable and private housing. We work in a partnership-led way, and you’ll recognize our renowned brands Bovis Homes, Linden Homes, and Countryside Homes. Together with Vistry Works, our manufacturing operation, and the functional support of Vistry Services, we’re a proud UK Green Building Council member, UK top five housebuilder with a five-star House Builders Federation (HBF) customer satisfaction rating, and winner of many awards including Top Employer, Global Top Inspiring Workplaces, and Best for Talent Attraction and Outreach. Join us in making Vistry.
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