Statutory Compliance Officer (Gas Safety)

Statutory Compliance Officer (Gas Safety) 

£28,606- £33,683 

Coventry CV4 9AJ 

Full Time, Temporary - 6 Months                                       

We are brave, we are ambitious, we are honest, and we are Citizen! 

In housing you can make a real difference, the role will involve: 

• Supporting the Gas Safety Manager and contract officer through prioritising, organising and monitoring the servicing, repair, installation and maintenance programmes, focussed on maintaining statutory gas compliance and the performance targets set. 

• Liaise with colleagues, suppliers and contractors to resolve technical queries and those relating to planning and programming activities and in order to support the delivery of heating repair, maintenance and installation contracts to a high standard, whilst continually promoting improvement. 

• To consistently monitor that the allocated budgets remain within the approved spend limits, raise purchase orders, seek appropriate authorisation and track completions and payments through the finance system. 

• Manage and monitor relevant data and systems to a high standard to ensure regulatory and legislative ‘assurance’ at all times. 

As a Statutory Compliance Officer we need you to:  

• Have ability to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing 

• Have skills and tools to manage, organise and prioritise workload 

• Have high IT skill and awareness to input, retrieve and manage data across numerous systems including Microsoft 

We would be really excited if you have: 

• Experience working in the housing sector 

• Experience working with external contractors or contract management 

Our people are everything and we offer: 

• Opportunities for salary progression. 

• IT equipment to allow some optional home working 

• ‘Live work better’ scheme which actively encourages work-life balance 

• Annual leave starts at 25 days per year, increasing with length of service 

• Enhanced family leave 

• Company Pension – Citizen match up to 10%  

• If part of the pension scheme you are entitled to Life cover (three times your annual salary) 

• Organisational Sick Pay (benefit increases with length of service) 

• EAP – a 24/7 service which gives free, confidential advice and support on a range of issues including telephone counselling 

• Medicash scheme -which includes GP Access, digital Physiotherapy app, retail vouchers and discounts, discounted gym memberships and more! 

• Recognition through our Employee Excellence Awards 

• Representation opportunities on our Staff Consultative Forum 

• Access to Citizen’s Wellbeing platform 

• Employee Excellence Awards (winners receive extra days annual leave that year) 

• Occupational Health 

• We believe everyone has something to give and encourage everyone to be the best they can be to reach their full potential with extensive learning and development opportunities and Study Leave 

Here at Citizen, our purpose is to provide homes that are a foundation for life. 

With over fifty years of experience, we have grown to be one of the UK’s most trusted social housing providers, Citizen owns and manages 30,000 homes for diverse communities across the West Midlands, from urban tower blocks to rural villages and towns. 

There are some fundamental challenges people in our communities’ face, and we want to be an organisation which can help them deal with these. So, we are working to solve some of the most pressing issues around housing and homelessness. 

We adopt a proactive approach to safeguarding to ensure everyone accessing our services can do so without fear of harm, abuse or neglect. 

We adopt a proactive approach to safeguarding to ensure everyone accessing our services can do so without fear of harm, abuse or neglect.  As part of our recruitment process, we carry out robust safeguarding checks. 

This post is subject to a Basic DBS check (Disclosure and Barring Service). 

Closing date: 25.02.24 

Interview date: 29.02.24 

Please note we will be reviewing applications throughout the campaign and may invite candidates to interview at any time.  We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published closing date should a suitable candidate be identified.