Job Introduction
What you’ll do
Are you passionate about ensuring the safety of residents and buildings? Join our Electrical and Mechanical (M&E) Compliance team as a Contract Officer! You will oversee safety-critical components and activities, ensuring contractors perform necessary electrical safety tests, emergency lighting inspections, and PAT testing in resident homes and communal areas. Your role will be crucial in managing reactive repairs and ensuring compliance with statutory, regulatory, and corporate requirements.
How you’ll make a difference:
We strive for 100% compliance in our electrical safety tests (EICRS) and emergency lighting (EMLS). Your role will ensure contractors adhere to schedules, forward plan, and follow the No Access process to achieve 100% compliance, keeping our residents safe in their homes.
How you’ll do it
- Manage contractors delivering services assigned to you to ensure they are delivered as specified.
- Ensure the components and/or activities are fully compliant with all relevant statutory, regulatory and corporate requirements
- Ensure contractors complete maintenance and repair services on time and to the standards expected.
- Ensure contractors have the appropriate third-party accreditation for their service specialism and that consultants are performing effective quality control.
- Lead regular, scheduled contract review meetings with the appropriate agenda to scrutinise contractual KPIs, discuss health and safety matters and hold the contractor(s) to account.
- Be the main point of contact for operational colleagues, contractors, stakeholders and residents for queries relating to your contracts
- Hybrid arrangements – minimum three days in the office, 2 days working from home.
The ideal candidate
We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.
Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.
Essential:
- Experience of contractor and/or stakeholder management
- Experience of working in a Housing Association or similar sized organisation
- Experience of working in a very busy environment and managing a diverse workload
Desirable:
- Desirable to have awareness of property compliance requirements.
- Desirable to have a recognised contract management qualification.
- Desirable to have an understanding of public sector procurement methods.
What’s in it for you?
Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential. Benefits include:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
- Generous pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
- Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
- Health cash plan
- Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
- Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Life Assurance x 4 annual salary
All about us
Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.
For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/
We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.
To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/
Selection Process
Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 27th April
Step 2: Successful candidates will be asked to do an assessment
Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk.
Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a Basic check via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.
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