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Support our communities. See the difference you can make in our city.
At One Manchester we are passionate about providing good quality homes, great services and real opportunities for customers and communities. We are more than just a landlord. We invest in new and existing homes, provide money advice and wellbeing, employment and training support and build strong partnerships to support inclusive growth.
We have an exciting position available for a Sustainability Manager to join us!
You’ll lead on the delivery of One Manchester’s carbon reduction retrofit projects, Heat Networks and Utilities, to support the Head of Assets and Sustainability in ensuring One Manchester meets the city’s targets for carbon reduction whilst delivering One Manchester’s sustainability strategy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead on the delivery of retrofit projects across One Manchester Stock aimed at improving the energy efficiency of our customers homes and ensuring our properties achieve government energy efficiency targets and carbon reduction targets.
- Oversee the performance, maintenance, and optimisation of heat networks and utility systems, ensuring technical compliance, operational efficiency, and integration with sustainability initiatives.
- Provide advice and innovative solutions to improve and maintain the stocks’ sustainability and energy efficiency.
- Ensure that customer voice is embedded into future sustainability projects and that high levels of customer satisfaction are achieved. Utilise customer feedback as a tool for continuous improvement.
- Work across OM business team to deliver asset and energy advice.
- Undertake surveys as required, making recommendations for retrofit activity to help improve the energy efficiency of homes.
What we’re looking for:
- Experience of leading a team to deliver retrofit works in a social housing setting.
- Holds the IOSH Managing Safely Certificate (or equivalent), or will work towards.
- A good understanding of complex contractual issues as they relate to repairs and maintenance operations.
- An excellent working knowledge of contract management, complex project delivery and wider programme management.
- A proven manager with both strategic and operational experience including people, contractors and projects.
- Strong communication skills, and a proven track record of successful partnership working with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong IT literacy, particularly experienced in using Microsoft Office packages
- Full driving license.
Why take up the challenge with One Manchester? This really is a great place to work. We’ve bags of potential and have huge opportunities waiting to be unlocked. Supportive and flexible, we’re rightly proud of our work and excited about the future. So, challenge yourself to be creative and ambitious and see the difference you can make in our great city.
If this sounds like you then apply today, we’d love to hear from you!
We own and manage over 12,000 homes in central, south and east Manchester. We have one purpose: to provide good quality homes, great services, and real opportunities for our customers and communities. Our role as a trusted Registered Provider of Social Housing goes well beyond putting people in safe and secure homes. That’s not to say it’s not one our key priorities, it’s simply one of the many things we do to help our customers live happy and fulfilled lives. We put people at the heart of everything we do. We’re constantly evolving as a business to ensure we’re supporting our customers and communities. We focus on improving our communities by offering a range of services, including employment opportunities, building new developments, and ensuring our customers have safe homes to live in.
In accordance with the aims of our Equality and Diversity strategy and organisational commitment to address the employment of underrepresented groups, One Manchester is operating 'the Rooney Rule'. This means that we aim to interview at least one ethnically diverse candidate for all roles. We will also interview at least one female candidate for all our roles within our trades and facilities teams where we experience an under representation.
One Manchester strives for equality, diversity and inclusion in all that we do. We positively encourage applications for employment from eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
We are transitioning to a culture where agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also try to support and promote a culture of flexible working where possible and practical. If you are interested in a role but require flexibility or part time hours please give us a call and we can let you know if this can be considered for a particular role.
