Mechanical & Electrical Operations Manager - #1785228

Mechanical & Electrical Operations Manager

Salary £68,817.36

Location Manchester

Full Time, Permanent

Support our communities. See the difference you can make in our city.

At One Manchester we’re passionate about improving lives and helping neighbourhoods thrive. Every day we provide homes, invest in our communities, help communities to further their learning, manage their money, launch successful businesses and improve their employability.

Reporting to the Head of Health Safety & Compliance the Mechanical and Electrical Operations Manager will lead a team of Leads with responsibility for the effective delivery of Mechanical, Electrical and Building Safety services, including the delivery of Sustainability Projects. You will ensure a customer first approach that is innovative and market leading meeting our legal and regulatory requirements with high levels of colleague engagement and cost effectiveness.

Delivering high quality and efficient services to One Manchester customers and stakeholders ensuring that statutory obligations in relation to the Construction, Design and Management Regulations, the Construction Act and relevant Environmental legislation are met.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience of managing service and maintenance contracts on heating systems and gas central heating
• Ideally experience in social housing properties
• Proven previous experience in managing electrical hard-wired systems including Electrical installations, Certification of electrical installation work, Periodic inspection, testing, condition & reporting, Electrical appliances, LOLER, Working at Height Regulations.
• Knowledge and experience of monitoring the compliance and servicing requirements of: domestic and commercial gas installations, domestic and passenger lifts, fire safety equipment (i.e. sprinklers, fire alarms and emergency lighting) CCTV, automatic doors and barriers, pumps, man-safe systems, lightning protection and radon
• Proven experience in a senior management role
• Experience managing procurement processes
• Extensive technical knowledge of specialist area and an ability to check specifications, design drawings and cost works in order to validate and assure
• Substantial knowledge and experience of contract administration e.g. JCT / NEC / TPC and running multiple projects at once
• Proven stakeholder management, supplier management experience

Why take up the challenge with One Manchester? This really is a great place to work. We’ve bags of potential and have huge opportunities waiting to be unlocked. Supportive and flexible, we’re rightly proud of our work and excited about the future. So, challenge yourself to be creative and ambitious and see the difference you can make in our great city.

If this sounds like you then apply today, we’d love to hear from you!

We own and manage over 12,000 homes in central, south and east Manchester. We have one purpose: to provide good quality homes, great services, and real opportunities for our customers and communities. Our role as a trusted Registered Provider of Social Housing goes well beyond putting people in safe and secure homes. That’s not to say it’s not one our key priorities, it’s simply one of the many things we do to help our customers live happy and fulfilled lives. We put people at the heart of everything we do. We’re constantly evolving as a business to ensure we’re supporting our customers and communities. We focus on improving our communities by offering a range of services, including employment opportunities, building new developments, and ensuring our customers have safe homes to live in.

In accordance with the aims of our Equality and Diversity strategy and organisational commitment to address the employment of underrepresented groups, One Manchester is operating 'the Rooney Rule'. This means that we aim to interview at least one ethnically diverse candidate for all roles. We will also interview at least one female candidate for all our roles within our trades and facilities teams where we experience an under representation.

One Manchester strives for equality, diversity and inclusion in all that we do. We positively encourage applications for employment from eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

We are transitioning to a culture where agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also try to support and promote a culture of flexible working where possible and practical. If you are interested in a role but require flexibility or part time hours please give us a call and we can let you know if this can be considered for a particular role.

The Company

We own and manage over 12,000 homes in central, south and east Manchester. We have one purpose: to provide good quality homes, great services, and real opportunities for our customers and communities. Our role as a trusted Registered Provider of Social Housing goes well beyond putting people in safe and secure homes. That’s not to say it’s not one our key priorities, it’s simply one of the many things we do to help our customers live happy and fulfilled lives. We put people at the heart of everything we do. We’re constantly evolving as a business to ensure we’re supporting our customers and communities. We focus on improving our communities by offering a range of services, including employment opportunities, building new developments, and ensuring our customers have safe homes to live in.

The Benefits

Not only do we offer fulfilling jobs where you can see the difference our work makes in our communities, but we also offer great rewards.