Energy Officer

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The Role

Based within the Asset and Compliance Team, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the energy contracts for the council’s property portfolio. This will include the electricity, gas and water supplies across the councils commercial and corporate portfolio as well as the communal spaces within the councils housing portfolio. Your hands on approach to communicating with energy providers and end users alike, will allow you to use your skills and temperament to dedicate time to interrogating invoices with the commitment to resolve errors and concerns on a granular detail.

In addition, your experience of working within a social housing setting and delivering projects to help local residents, will allow you to successfully manage ongoing and future projects and funding applications related to energy improvement. This will put you in a strong position to then lead on the council’s ambition of ensuring all our residential properties have an EPC energy rating of C or above.

The successful candidate must be able to evidence the requirements laid out in the Job Description and be able to show a commitment to getting involved in some administrative heavy parts of the role. This will be combined with having the strategic experience to drive system change needed to bring about efficiencies and savings within the administration of the energy contracts.

This is a permanent post, working 37 hours per week Monday to Friday and is based at Lancaster Town Hall.

Flexible working friendly – we offer hybrid working, a generous flexi-time scheme, and opportunity to work with your team to establish working hours to enable you to maximise your work-life balance.

About You

You will identify with our organisational values of Pride, Ownership, Working Together and Ambition.

Our Benefits

Lancaster is a great place to work, as well as being part of something special you will also benefit from:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• A range of employee benefits including discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, the opportunity to purchase extra time off, as well as discounts on days out, activities and retail.

Lancaster City Council has unanimously declared a climate emergency and will therefore work towards reducing carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030. As part of this role, you will be expected to participate and work towards reducing both carbon emissions and the impacts of climate change.

We are an Investor in People, Forces Friendly employer, and an Armed Forces Covenant committed organisation. We welcome applications from defence reserves and other members of our armed forces community. We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from all parts of our community.

At Lancaster City Council we aim to have a diverse workforce that is representative of the district that we serve and provide a working environment where each employee feels able to bring their whole self to work. We welcome applications from all sections of our community and provide several supportive and inclusive workplace networks and safe spaces for employees to feel connected. Our workplace wellbeing strategy drives our commitment to staff wellbeing initiatives and ensuring that our organisation is a great place to work for all.

We are a disability confident committed employer.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unable to update all applicants individually. If you do not receive a response from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then your application will have unfortunately been unsuccessful in progressing to interview.

Interview date: TBC