Energy Manager Portsmouth, South East England, England
Job description
We’re VIVID! –We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people!
We’re currently looking for a passionate, experienced Energy Manager to join our Sustainability team. We offer a flexible approach to working between home and our office in Portsmouth. This is a full-time, permanent position working 37 hours per week with a minimum of 20% of this to be office based to promote collaboration and team working within the Sustainability team and other colleagues across the business.
Want to know what we can offer you?
- 27 days holiday (plus bank holidays), with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
- Private Medical Insurance
- A generous contributory pension
- Medi-cash policy to claim back some medical costs to ensure we look after you and your loved ones
- Discounts portal to save money on various products and services, including holidays, shopping and cinema
- Electric car scheme
- A real sense of work/life balance where we promote flexible working and an agile culture.
Here’s the facts about the role:
As the Energy Manager you’ll develop and lead our strategic approach to energy management. The key focus for this role will be to support maintenance and investment teams to control the cost, consumption and carbon emissions of all of our landlord utilities supplies. You’ll develop and implement strategies, processes and business cases to improve the efficiency of energy infrastructure.
You’ll identify energy efficiency and renewable energy opportunities for landlord electricity supplies and office sites. You’ll also work closely with the development team to find solutions for low carbon communal energy supplies and metering/billing solutions for new build housing. As the person responsible for VIVID’s heat network contracts, you’ll collaborate with maintenance teams to develop and deliver solutions to improve their operational efficiency and management.
This role will be responsible for compliance with all heat, energy and carbon regulations and champion energy efficiency across our directorates by providing advice, training and support to colleagues to raise awareness of energy management. As such you’ll hold experience of energy management within a multisite organisation ideally in a housing context. You’ll also have proven experience of managing heat networks, multi-site utilities procurement, budget preparation, project management and financial planning and forecasting.
Ideally, you’ll hold an energy management or building services qualification and either a Membership (or working towards) at advanced level CIBSE, the Energy Institute, the Energy Managers Association or similar.
Due to the nature of this role and occasional visits to site, you’ll need to hold a driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work travel.
Interviews will be held in our Portsmouth office on the weeks commencing the 6th and 13th of March.
