Electrical Manager

We're recruiting for an Electrical Manager to provide effective leadership and support to the Electrical Supervisors and their trade staff., This is a critical role with principal duty holder responsibility for the NICEIC, ensuring that all electrical works are delivered safely, compliantly and to the highest professional standards. The Electrical Manager will play a key role in delivering a consistently high-performing, top-quartile repairs service, while ensuring full compliance with all relevant legislation, regulatory requirements and VIVID policies and procedures. You'll be accountable for the Electrical Team's delivery of a first-class repairs and customer care service, acting as a visible role model for excellent customer service at all times. You'll ensure services are delivered within agreed budgets, closely monitoring monthly spend, service trends and cost effectiveness to shape service delivery and minimise unnecessary expenditure. The role involves supporting Supervisors in managing their teams and compliance duties, building and maintaining a skilled, flexible and customer-focused high-performing workforce, and promoting the principles of Best Value in all decision-making. You'll carry out regular post-inspections of works completed by internal teams and external contractors, prepare detailed specifications for rechargeable works, ensure targets and programmes are met, and provide timely advice to the Contract Manager where issues arise. Responsibilities also include ensuring correct SORs are claimed, overseeing vehicle checks, managing the effective use of contractors, supporting preventative maintenance planning with the MEM, and resolving customer complaints, insurance claims and recurring defects.

• Recognised qualification in an Electrical discipline
• City & Guilds 2330 Level 3 (or equivalent)
• City & Guilds 2391 / 2394 / 2395 - Inspection and Testing
• 18th Edition Wiring Regulations
• Proven experience leading or managing electrical teams in a compliance-critical environment
  
  This is a full time, permanent role working 37 hours per week Monday to Friday. Contractually based out of our Portsmouth or Basingstoke office, this is a remote working role. This means you'll not be permanently office based, will need to be able to work from home and be willing to travel across various locations throughout Hampshire.
The role includes participation in the on-call rota to support service delivery outside normal working hours. Want to know what we can offer you?
• 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays) pro rata, with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
• A productivity-related bonus scheme to enhance your take-home
• A generous contributory pension of 6%. We'll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
• Life assurance paid at x 3 annual salary
• Private medical insurance
• Health care cash plan called Medicash
• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Access to counselling, legal and financial information
• Electric car scheme
• Huge variety of in-house & e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes, This role is covered by the Competency & Conduct Standard for Social Housing. The postholder must demonstrate the appropriate skills, knowledge and experience to carry out their responsibilities effectively, while acting professionally, responsibly and with integrity at all times.
As this role involves travel, a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use is a requirement. Business mileage will be paid (excluding the 1st 15 miles of your day). Offers are subject to a satisfactory DBS check. First interviews will take place in person, 19 May (subject to change) We're a leading provider of affordable homes and extensive support services in the south of England. We believe that everyone has the right to a safe and secure place to call home, and from the moment customers move into their VIVID home we're here to help with that and more. Our customers have access to a wide range of tailored advice to sustain their tenancies and look after their wellbeing. We invest in our homes and communities for the long-term, and this means in the quality, safety and energy efficiency of existing homes and neighbourhoods, with a firm focus on improving services so they're easy to use and access by our customers. We're addressing the shortage of affordable housing in the south, building the right type of homes to meet the needs of our local communities. We're the sixth largest developer of new homes amongst housing associations in England, having built over 1,500 last year. This is summed up in our vision "More homes, bright futures".