Technical Services Officer (Mechanical)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job purpose

At Kirklees we want to be innovative and creative in the way we work to deliver our services to our communities. We know we have challenging times ahead, so we are always looking for better and smarter ways to work.

You will be able to build, maintain and manage effective working relationships with stakeholders, clients and partners through regular site visits and liaison meetings. You will also be responsible for ensuring that the service is delivered in line with agreed contracts, policies, and procedures. You can expect commitment to your personal and career development.

This role is based within Place. Find out more about working for Kirklees.

Key areas of responsibility

Managing the performance and responsibility for a range of capital projects involving multi-discipline and single discipline design teams preparing new build, refurbishment, and remodelling building contracts.

Act as the Councils Technical Authority in relation to its Built Environment and Assets, developing, implementing, monitoring, and amending technical specifications, strategies, practices, and standards to ensure compliance with all statutory requirements.

Provide advocacy as a technical expert to the Capital Delivery and Development team during implementation of projects and to Senior Managers, Elected Members, Council Cabinet, Scrutiny, Partners, and all Stakeholders.

Establish and maintain Technical Specifications and Council standards to reflect good practice and to establish performance standards for safety critical elements, ensuring modifications and new build projects comply with specifications and standards, managing and approving any deviation from these standards.

Liaise with clients on capital and revenue investments to define the scope of work required for asset improvements understanding the business needs, aims and objectives in meeting their desired outcomes.

Ensure a high quality, customer focussed and value for money service is delivered. Identify and deliver service improvements and work effectively with suppliers and stakeholders to ensure that customer needs are met, and risk is minimised.

Develop and improve the services ability to adopt a partnership approach with Council Directorates and external agencies to ensure concept designs are developed with the understanding of desired outcomes and that effective relationships are maintained.

Manage and monitor external professional consultants and contractors involved in designing and implementing asset improvement works through the Councils framework agreements.

Work effectively on all occasions with minimal or no supervision, possessing significant skills, knowledge and experience ensuring commissions are completed in full, to the quality, time, and cost requirements of the brief.

Ensure design teams are co-ordinated, and projects of various complexities are produced using computer-aided design software and including contract documents appropriate to the commission and Form of Contract

Provision of technical advice/knowledge/asset improvement projects/whole life costing to the satisfaction of customers through high quality individual performance and through proposals for continuous improvement.

Ensure that Council Standards reflect the functional/operational asset needs of Services.

Successful design, deliver and effectively manage capital design projects within budget, to agreed timescales and to required standards.

Determine good practices and promote the application of new technologies and techniques to achieve safe and cost-effective methods for operational, maintenance and modification activities.

Successful delivery of services through the development and maintenance of positive relations and communications with all stakeholders, partners, members, senior managers, and service providers across all organisations.

Job Focus

As Technical Service Officer (Mechanical HVAC) in the Councils Corporate Landlord and Capital Department, you will possess extensive professional Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) design experience, strong negotiation, consultation and influencing skills. You will support Technical Services Manager with leading and ensuring effective design and delivery of capital programmes and individual projects involving new build and extensions, remodelling schemes relating to schools, leisure centres, offices, depots, blocks of flats, listed buildings that form part of the Councils Capital investment and Blueprint Plan/s ranging from £10K up to £5M of mechanical services.

Role Description

Act in the role of Lead Mechanical Design on routine and complex projects and manage design teams within a trading account. You will be able to initiate, develop and promote the professional, commercial and contractual factors affecting service delivery including applying information technology to best advantage.

Specialising in the design, development, construction, and operation of mechanical services:

Range of skills and abilities include having a detailed knowledge of mechanical issues associated with new build, extensions, remodelling and refurbishment of all building types including historic and listed buildings. Specialist duties and responsibilities may include some or all of the list below:

Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems (HVAC)

Kitchen and Fume Extraction Systems

Refrigeration and Chilled Water Systems

Building energy management systems (BEMs)

Fire detection and protection systems,

Pressurized Systems

Hot and cold-water services.

Energy supply (gas)

Renewable Technologies

Environmental awareness including new and improved energy conservation systems for buildings.

Legislative requirements for example: DSEAR and Complying with Environmental Policies.

Thermal Modelling Analysis

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• IT literate and experience of using software packages e.g. word,
• excel, etc including bespoke packages for example: AutoDesk, NBS,
• Hevacomp design packages.
• Extended previous formal training, to graduate or professional
• qualification level, or equivalent, plus training and experience in the
• application of the knowledge to the specific requirements of the job.
• Post qualification demonstrable design experience in their area of
• excellence on both single and multi-discipline capital or revenue
• projects.
• Provable experience over the last five years in leading and managing
• single/multi-disciplinary design teams.
• Proven track record of production and delivery of mechanical work
• packages to an agreed level of performance and standard.
• Proven track record of managing complex organisational programmes
• of work and project risks.
• Team player style of approach, ready to take on any challenge. Essential
• Must be able to travel independently to and from locations away from
• the office such as construction sites or consultants offices. In
• addition, individuals need to be able to visit construction sites and be
• able to ascend and descend scaffolding as an example.

Qualifications

Essential

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Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Kirklees Council

Address

High Street Buildings

High Street

Huddersfield

West Yorkshire

HD1 2ND

Employer's website

https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/default.aspx (Opens in a new tab)