Technical Officer

**Technical Officer - Repairs & Voids (RAM/01)**

**Details**:
Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 35 hours per week

**Salary**: £37,326 - £40,988, Grade E4-E1

Location: Invergordon/Inverness/Hybrid

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As we approach our 50th birthday, Albyn Housing Society has a fantastic opportunity for a Technical Officer to join our passionate and enthusiastic 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 recover from the pandemic and face the many and mounting current economic challenges, we are delivering and developing services in new and innovative ways.

We are also currently operating a hybrid working model ‘Hub, Home and Roam model”.
- ‘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.

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.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a construction related post.
- 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
- Employee benefit discounts
- Excellent development and training opportunities
- Company pension scheme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing support service
- Family friendly policies
- Flexible working
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Albyn Housing Society sick pay scheme
- Car Allowance (If applicable to your post)

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**How to Apply**:
Specification and Job Description.

For further information, please contact George Mackie on 07974 210 927 or Caroline

Madden on 07717 778 945.

**Interviews dates to be confirmed.**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £37,326.00-£40,988.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Flexitime

Schedule:

- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 09/06/2023