Repair Team Leader

Description

**Contract type**: Permanent

**Working hours**: 42 hours per week across varied shifts

**Salary**:£26,416 - £31,794 depending on experience and qualifications.
Plus London Weighting, additional pay for overtime, standby & monthly performance pay based on customer feedback.

**Location**:Fulham

**Setting the standards all of our customers will love and others will aspire to**

At Cadent we’re excited to be part of the future of UK energy We’ve got a clear roadmap that will both drive our performance to the forefront of our industry and support the UK government in achieving their net zero target by 2050.

We’re making a difference through innovation and new ways of working. Together we’re shaping a cleaner, greener future for our 11 million customers who we put at the heart of everything we do.

**About the Role**

You’ll be responsible for leading a two person Repair team. Reporting directly to the Network Supervisor, you will need to be self-motivated with an ability to drive your team. You'll have exceptional customer service skills, be extremely enthusiastic andhave the ability to lead by example in order to promote safe working practice whilst driving efficiency and maintaining compliant ways of working
Your day to day duties will include:

- Attending gas escapes to locate, make safe and repair as appropriate
- Isolations of Mains and Services where required and necessary
- Meter Control Valves exchanges
- Conducting service checks.
- Syphon pumping, valve repairs, mains/leakage surveys, ancillary work on the network Groundwork
- Excavations and reinstatements
- Utilising appropriate signing, lighting and guarding
- Ensure cable avoidance
- Delivery of equipment and tools where required
- Patrol and plant protection
- Supervising the team
- Programming of escapes for further work
- LP/MP/IP Mainlaying, including working for partner companies as required
- Service laying and connections
- Working on deep excavations up to 2.5m
- Working on a standby rota system

**About You**

We’re looking for people who act with pride, purpose and ownership to join our team, along with:

- An NCO2GS qualification
- A full UK driving licence
- EUSR Essential Qualifications
- SHEA Gas
- NCO(G) - Service Layer (Distribution)
- NCO(G) - Meter Disconnection

**Other Essential**
- NRSWA (SWQR) - Location and avoidance of underground apparatus, Signing Lighting and Guarding, Excavation in the highway

**Desirable Qualifications**
- NMO(G) - Escape Locate Repair
- NCO(G) - Main Layer up to 180mm (Distribution)

**Our Benefits**

When you’re responsible for some of the most challenging and vital work around, it’s only right that you receive some of the best rewards and benefits around too.

In addition to your salary, you can expect the opportunity to earn performance bonus, additional pay for overtime, onerous hours and standby duties. Along with:

- 25 days holiday + 8 statutory days with an option to buy more
- Competitive salary with fantastic career prospects
- Pension Scheme - double match up to 12%
- Opportunity to earn bonus
- Flex Benefits including; cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, insurances and healthcare packages
- My Offers membership card - offering discounts and savings from hundreds of retailers
- Support with financial wellbeing
- Access to our Occupational Health Services
- Full training to ensure you are operating at your best
- Vehicle, tools, equipment, phone & tablet all supplied on your first day

**Diversity and Inclusion**

Cadent embraces Diversity and Inclusion. We celebrate what makes us different, as well as what we have in common. This enables us to work better as one team shaping a dynamic, innovative