About the Role

We are looking for a Technical Officer – Clerk of Works (1 post) to join our Property Services & Delivery team. This role is home based and there is no requirement to attend the office daily, but you will be required to attend neighbourhoods and/or sites as required to fulfil duties of the role.

The Technical Officer – Clerk of Works will support the delivery team to ensure consistently high standards of quality control through onsite technical assessment adhering to specification ensuring robust control of health and safety standards in compliance with health and safety legislation.

The role will support the Capital Investment Team by ensuring that accurate and up to date records in connection with Capital work and in accordance with policies and procedures, as well as providing effective supervision to ensure consistently high-quality standards through robust monitoring and supervision for each project, via site visits, assessing all aspects of quality control.

What are we looking for?

The successful candidate will need to have a track record of managing investment programmes to a high level of quality and performance and be technically competent and demonstrable knowledge of building construction, building standards, planning regulations, regulatory standards, and leasehold legislation. A HNC or equivalent pass in a building related discipline is also required.

What you can expect from us

We offer a competitive salary of £33,950 per annum for the role, a generous annual leave entitlement of 31 days plus bank holidays and a pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 10%. In line with our commitment to the wellbeing of our colleagues we also offer a health cash plan where you can claim back money for health care such as physiotherapy and dental care and along with our internal wellbeing support you can also take advantage of the wellbeing resources available via the plan.

We are passionate about the development of our people and there are plenty of opportunities to progress both personally and professionally with Onward, so if you want support to progress your professional career, opportunities to volunteer in the local community or even learn a new skill outside of work, Onward can help you to reach your full potential.

To create a healthy work-life balance for colleagues and capitalise on the benefits of more flexible ways of working, for our customers, colleagues and to support sustainability, we have developed Onward ‘WorkSpace’. This is our approach that focuses on work being the thing that we do that makes a difference to our customers, not the place we go.

About Onward

Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the North West, with 35,000 properties across the region.

We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.

In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.

We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.

If candidates have any concerns / questions in relation to Covid-19 and the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on [email protected] and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early prior to the closing date.