Details:

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: £39,193 - £43,038, Grade E4-E1

Location: Hybrid working with an Invergordon office base

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Want to feel good about the work you do? Albyn Housing Society has a fantastic opportunity for a Technical Officer to join our passionate and dedicated customer and property services team.

We have many aspirations and ambitions to continually improve our services to our 3,700 customers, spread across 70 rural and urban communities in the Highlands. Our new vision and values will drive our strategic direction by ensuring we:

“Maintain and build quality homes, providing excellent customer service, and giving opportunities for people and communities to flourish.”

We are a people-first organisation, and our values are embodied in our everyday working lives – we want someone to join us who shares and exhibits these values of:

“Being Caring”

Being Adaptable

Being Professional”

As we continue to recover from the pandemic and face the many and mounting current economic challenges, we are delivering and developing services in new and innovative ways, including participating in a hybrid working model of ‘Hub, Home and Roam”.

‘Hub’ means you can still see colleagues face-to-face.

‘Home’ is about how we have shown we can be productive and efficient when working remotely.

‘Roam’ is about offering community-based service delivery, meeting customers, and visiting them in their homes or local communities.

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About the Role

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, organised, and pragmatic professional to join the Albyn Housing Group.

As a Technical officer you will be contributing to the successful delivery of the repairs and void service across Albyn Housing Societies stock.

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Main Responsibilities

Contribute to the successful delivery of the Repairs and Voids service across Albyn’s homes, buildings, and property holdings in a geographical area.
Ensure compliance with Health and Safety requirements and other regulatory requirements including EESSH/SHQS
Management of contractors to ensure service delivery within set standards.
Contribute to the delivery of planned and cyclical programmes of work as required.
Undertake Stock Condition Surveys of void properties.
Ensure that all tenant interaction is recorded on the CRM system, Civica CX, and Asset Management System (Asprey).

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About You

Trade or construction related qualification, or experience in a construction related post.
Good ICT skills (Microsoft 365, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Excel and online and cloud-based applications)
Experienced in surveys and diagnosis of building related defects.
Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation.
Ability to prioritise and manage a diverse workload.
Ability to understand bills of quantities, building contracts, technical drawings and specifications.
Professional, calm, and confident manner.
Acute awareness of importance of disciplined record keeping.
Value good governance
Ability to travel within the Highlands and occasionally outside the Highlands.

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What we are Offering:

Albyn offers a supportive and friendly environment, where our people are valued and appreciated and are rewarded:

Competitive salary
A generous annual leave entitlement
Employee benefit discounts
Excellent development and training opportunities
Company pension scheme
Group life cover
Access to an employee assistance program available 24/7 and an employee
wellbeing Hub.
Family friendly policies
Flexible working hours
Albyn Group sick pay scheme
Car Allowance (If applicable to your post)

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How to Apply:

Candidates apply by submitting a completed application form or CV along with a supporting statement or downloading an application pack from our website, to demonstrate your skills, experience and knowledge, which are relevant to the Person Specification and Job Description.

Please note CV's will not be accepted without accompanying supporting statement.

For further information, please contact George Bradley on 07712 140 870.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday the 15th October 2024 at 12pm.

Interviews to be scheduled for 23rd October 2024