About the role
If you want to play an active role in improving people's lives, in a team developing and delivering a professional, customer focused and efficient housing maintenance service to the tenants of North Northamptonshire Council, we may have just the job for you!
What will you be doing?
We are seeking skilled heating engineers to join the Housing Property Services Team based at the Council's Depot at Fleming Road, Corby, working across the whole of the NNC authority. As a member of our team your responsibilities will include:
- Delivering the repair and maintenance to the council's 8,000+ tenants.
- Completing Landlord’s Gas Safety Checks, installations, servicing, repairs and remedial work
- Checking, testing and upgrading heating systems in Void properties
- Participating in out of hours call out if required
- Delivering a first-time fix service, ensuring minimal disruption to our residents and providing outstanding customer care and quality performance.
About you
We are looking for Heating engineers with:
- Experience of fault finding/repairs, inspection, testing and installation of heating systems
- An understanding of the current regulations and a focus to always remain compliant
- Awareness of, and ability to follow, safe working procedures
- A commitment to provide exceptional customer service in a friendly manner with professional attitude and effective communication skills
- You will enjoy working as part of a team, whilst also being able to work unsupervised.
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our Key Commitments
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.
We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)