Job Title: Gas Engineer - PermanentSalary: £38,262 - £47,854 Location: Walsall & Coventry
The OrganisationThey're proud to be able to support tens of thousands of people across England by providing affordable housing and care to help people live independently due to being one of the country's leading social housing and care providers.Their commitments are the culture that defines who they are as this shapes the way they interact with customers and colleagues, impacts the way they prioritise and make decisions.As a colleague, you are expected to demonstrate our core commitments of the organisation. These are:

Believe our customer is everything
Being one team
Being supportive and caring
Being business-minded for social purpose
Being curious and ambitious.

About the roleA member of the team working within the heating team. Ensuring properties are serviced, maintained, and repaired to a high standard. You will be responsible for carrying out servicing, testing, repairs and minor installations efficiently and economically in accordance with current working practices and all related health and safety legislation and good practice. The engineers are required to work Monday - Friday 9am-5pm with a 15:30pm finish on a Friday. There is also negotiable out of hours work available.You will be responsible for:

Undertaking a range of service and maintenance work, repairing or replacing items to maintain properties to a high standard, including producing gas safety certificates, in line with the role skills framework.
To complete work in conjunction with all health and safety procedures, policies and legislation.
To work efficiently and deliver high standards of quality.
Working unsupervised and in occupied or unoccupied (void) properties and complying with the Code of Conduct.
To be competent in the completion of reports, ordering materials and completing orders.
To work in a professional and courteous manner.
To participate in an out of hours emergency rota and attend call-outs as required.

Working relationships and contacts

Internal - Operations Gas Supervisors, Area managers, other Heating Team colleagues, Contact Centre, Property Services Administration, Housing Teams.
External - residents, suppliers, contractors and sub-contractors.

What are we looking for?Essential requirements:

City & Guilds, NVQ level 3 or similar
ACS including CCN1 CEN1 WAT1
HTR1 CKR1 CPA1
UVHW
Gas safe registered
5 GCSE's at grade C or above or equivalent
Up to date with industry regulations and requirements
Experience with fault-finding on modern condensing boilers.
Experience in housing.

Desirable qualifications:

LPG, Commercial
Plumbing NVQ
Solar thermal
MET1
ASHP

What you'll get in return

25 days holiday (rising to 30 after 5 years' service)
1 day extra holiday for your birthday
Sick pay levels depend on how many years of service
14 weeks full pay + 13 weeks 50% for maternity pay
100% of pay paid for 2 weeks for paternity pay
Car allowance where applicable
Pension - 6% employer contribution (matched to 6%)
Life cover - 3x salary

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