Compliance Officer Gas and Water

What does a Compliance Officer do at Southwark Council?

Are you passionate about ensuring safety, compliance, and excellence in building services? Southwark Council is seeking an experienced and dedicated Compliance Officer (Gas and Water) to join our Housing team. You’ll play a key role in maintaining the safety and quality of our housing stock, ensuring compliance with policies and regulations, and driving improvements across gas, water, and engineering services.

About the Role

As a Compliance Officer, you will:

• Provide expert technical support across the Housing Department, contributing to strategic goals and operational excellence.
• Inspect, audit, and manage repairs, installations, and maintenance of gas and water systems in domestic and commercial properties.
• Collaborate with contractors to ensure high-quality, cost-effective service delivery that meets compliance standards and the needs of residents.
• Lead on ensuring health and safety compliance, conducting quality assurance checks, and supporting legal cases with technical expertise.
• Monitor contractor performance and manage contracts with a borough-wide impact, ensuring effective service continuity and resident satisfaction.
• Assist in the management of quality assurance and mechanical services contracts, reporting directly to the Compliance Manager (Gas and Water).

What We’re Looking For

We’re seeking a proactive and technically skilled individual with:

• Relevant ACS Gas Certificates (domestic and commercial core elements) and certification in the control of legionella (ACoP L8) or equivalent experience.
• Strong knowledge of Health and Safety regulations and best practices.
• Certification or extensive experience in plumbing and unvented hot water systems.
• Proven experience in diagnosing, repairing, and maintaining domestic and commercial heating and water systems, including cold-water storage tanks.
• A valid UK driving licence and the ability to work across the borough.

This role includes participation in an out-of-hours standby rota and occasional work outside standard hours to respond to emergencies.

Ready to take on this vital role? Apply now and help us ensure safe, compliant, and efficient housing services for Southwark residents.

About Southwark

We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities.? Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.

Benefits and more information:

In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.

Additional Details

Advert Closing date: 23/12/2024

Interview date: TBC

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

•  Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
•  Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
•  If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

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