Technical Assistant

**Technical Assistant**

**Salary: £40,000 - £45,000**

**Type: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)**

**Location: Staines-upon-Thames - Hybrid working with one day in the office per week currently**

**About us**

We are one of the UK’s leading housing associations. Our vision is to improve people’s lives through high-quality homes and services.

We operate across London and southern England, providing affordable, private and social rented homes, student, NHS and temporary accommodation, as well as supported housing and homes for older people. We also offer high-quality sustainable homes for sale and shared ownership, available through our FABRICA by A2Dominion brand.

Whilst we take a commercial approach to housebuilding, all the profits the Group generates are reinvested into supporting our social purpose, helping to deliver more homes and services for customers.

**About the role**

We’re searching for a **Technical Assistant **to join our friendly and hard-working team at A2Dominion. As a Technical Assistant within the wider Partnering Team, you will provide support to the technical team, you will engage with contractors, consultants directly as well as build networks with partners internally and externally to ensure that a programme of works is reported in the most accurate format.

You will be responsible for supporting the Technical Team on a day-to-day basis with relevant information on works start and completion dates at its various stages.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Provide administrative support to the Technical Team, which will include, monitoring of key property repairs through discussion with contractors and consultants and internal partners.
- Preparation of spreadsheets to monitor ongoing complex repair works.
- Assist in the maintenance of appropriate filing systems, ensuring that information is easily accessible when required.
- Maintain and update recorded information.
- Obtain and collate relevant information to specific property, such as Building component warranties, as built drawings, and Health & Safety files.
- Produce and maintain accurate information for the Technical Team and the wider organization.
- To efficiently and courteously liaise with, undertake correspondence and deal with telephone enquiries from external organisations, tenants, and residents.

**More about you**

For this role, we’re looking for someone with the following:

- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Math’s and English (Grades A*- C)
- HNC/D in Construction or a degree in Architecture (Desirable)
- Previous experience of working in a design team
- Ability to work on own initiative and to meet deadlines, thriving under pressure
- Ability to contribute to the success of a team and be driven by outputs and outcomes
- Commitment to continuous improvement

**Choosing us is easy**

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:

- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
- 3.5 additional days of holiday between Christmas and New Year
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working policy
- Investment in your learning and development.

In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

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

**Salary**: £40,000.00-£450,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Referral programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday