Gas Engineer

Job Title: Gas Engineer - PermanentSalary: £38,262 - £47,854 Location: Walsall & Coventry

The Organisation

They're proud to be able to support tens of thousands of people across England by providing affordable housing and care to help people live independently due to being one of the country's leading social housing and care providers.Their commitments are the culture that defines who they are as this shapes the way they interact with customers and colleagues, impacts the way they prioritise and make decisions.As a colleague, you are expected to demonstrate our core commitments of the organisation. These are:

• Believe our customer is everything
• Being one team
• Being supportive and caring
• Being business-minded for social purpose
• Being curious and ambitious.

About the roleA member of the team working within the heating team. Ensuring properties are serviced, maintained, and repaired to a high standard. You will be responsible for carrying out servicing, testing, repairs and minor installations efficiently and economically in accordance with current working practices and all related health and safety legislation and good practice. The engineers are required to work Monday - Friday 9am-5pm with a 15:30pm finish on a Friday. There is also negotiable out of hours work available.You will be responsible for:

• Undertaking a range of service and maintenance work, repairing or replacing items to maintain properties to a high standard, including producing gas safety certificates, in line with the role skills framework.
• To complete work in conjunction with all health and safety procedures, policies and legislation.
• To work efficiently and deliver high standards of quality.
• Working unsupervised and in occupied or unoccupied (void) properties and complying with the Code of Conduct.
• To be competent in the completion of reports, ordering materials and completing orders.
• To work in a professional and courteous manner.
• To participate in an out of hours emergency rota and attend call-outs as required.

Working relationships and contacts

• Internal - Operations Gas Supervisors, Area managers, other Heating Team colleagues, Contact Centre, Property Services Administration, Housing Teams.
• External - residents, suppliers, contractors and sub-contractors.

What are we looking for?Essential requirements:

• City & Guilds, NVQ level 3 or similar
• ACS including CCN1 CEN1 WAT1
• HTR1 CKR1 CPA1
• UVHW
• Gas safe registered
• 5 GCSE's at grade C or above or equivalent
• Up to date with industry regulations and requirements
• Experience with fault-finding on modern condensing boilers.
• Experience in housing.

Desirable qualifications:

• LPG, Commercial
• Plumbing NVQ
• Solar thermal
• MET1
• ASHP

What you'll get in return

• 25 days holiday (rising to 30 after 5 years' service)
• 1 day extra holiday for your birthday
• Sick pay levels depend on how many years of service
• 14 weeks full pay + 13 weeks 50% for maternity pay
• 100% of pay paid for 2 weeks for paternity pay
• Car allowance where applicable
• Pension - 6% employer contribution (matched to 6%)
• Life cover - 3x salary

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