Customer Safety Surveyor – M&E

Your core role and focus is all about ensuring all the necessary working practices needed are in place to ensure customers are kept safe in their homes from any mechanical systems failure.   Your role will provide expert opinion to internal and external customers to help achieve our commitment of zero tolerance towards health & safety aspects. We want our customers to be safe as well as proud of their homes we provide and you have a key part to play in this.

A typical day might include:

•  Managing the delivery of the regional / national mechanical system (e.g. Passenger Lifts / Stair Lifts/ Fire Safety Equipment) servicing / testing/ remedials programmes to our homes and offices
• Ensuring all aspects of the regional / national contracts are performance managed through your contract management experience, to ensure all associated KPI’s are monitored and accurately measured against
• Preparing, managing and monitoring all budgetary aspects of the mechanical systems and remedial programme
• Reviewing the current and future mechanical testing programmes, to manage risk of non-compliance through delivery of contracts and / or ensure preventative measures are in place
• Implementing   quality   control   systems   for   inspection   and   maintenance   of mechanical systems within our homes and offices.
• Taking action to ensure that relevant legislation and safety standards are met and customers / staff safety are secure
• Considering / reviewing and making recommendations for changes to policies & procedures and technologies beneficial in the monitoring and auditing of mechanical systems to ensure customer safety
• Actively promote the importance of customer safety
• Being part of an effective operational team, focused on achievement of service plan / departmental objectives
• Providing guidance in your area of professional specialism to internal and external customers
• Resolving contractor disputes and performance issues in a professional and constructive manner
• Ensuring services provided are effective and clearly demonstrate value for money, along with a commitment for continuous improvement and high customer satisfaction levels 

Please note for this role you will be required to have a Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use

Who are Accent?

We own almost 22,000 houses across the north, east and south of the country.

They are home to over 35,000 customers. We exist to improve lives, providing people with high quality homes, affordably. Whatever their housing need, whether family, single, older or more vulnerable – our customers come first. They are always at the very heart of our business.

If you feel great about putting customers first, then we feel great about you joining the Accent team.

And we are a team. We live and breathe our values – we are smart, we are driven, we are caring and we are energetic – are you? If you can do what’s right and challenge what you think is wrong, relish the opportunity to work with some fabulous colleagues to improve the customer experience and make sure we keep to our promises, then you are the person we are looking for.

Come and join us and start your own journey with Accent. We aim to be number one, and you could help us get there.

You will be joining Accent at an exciting time. Our new 3-year Corporate Strategy ‘With you for your Journey’ sets out an ambitious and exciting agenda for the future that will establish Accent Group as a sector leading organisation.           

Benefits

• 28 days paid holiday per year rising by 1 day per year up to a maximum of one working week
• Option to purchase additional holiday of up to 2 of your working weeks (at managers discretion)
• Flexi-time scheme
• Salary based contributory pension
• Scheme with Life Assurance cover or a defined contribution pension
• Scheme (SHPS)
• Cycle Scheme
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme