District Heating Manager

Permanent, Full Time (35 hours per week) Please note that we do not currently offer any Tier 2 sponsorship About the role Our largest heat network provides heating and hot water to 481 homes and is located just outside of York. The homes are mixed tenure and JRHT have a responsibility to ensure that the heat network provides heating and hot water to all. The project was delivered around 2013 and has been running for around 10 years. It is made up of biomass and gas boilers and the homes are fitted with their own HIUs. Thats where you come in! Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust are seeking a qualified District Heating Manager to manage our optimisation strategies, providing standardisation and compliance whilst ensuring transformational change activities are delivered seamlessly across our district heating networks. As District Heating Manager, you will be responsible for making sure the heat network is effectively managed by our suppliers and support an option appraisal study for its future. You will work with our suppliers and consultants to ensure that optimum outputs are achieved and provide technical knowledge to JRHT. We also have 6 other district heating networks that are required to comply with the Heat Network Regulations. You will closely oversee key areas of planned preventative maintenance and optimisation activities with the incumbent O&M (Operation & Maintenance) Contractor and external advisory Contractors/Consultants and manage all associated funding bids, with support from contractor/consultants. You will take ownership of a system wide options appraisal report that has been set-up to review all sustainable and cost-effective options and manage tendering of contracts to third parties. About you As our District Heating Manager, ideally your career to date has been within mechanically biased Building Services Engineering, having operational experience on district heating systems. With a proven track record of problem solving and fault finding, you will have knowledge of CDM and robust Health & Safety Training. With vast district heating management experience, you will be a degree qualified Chartered Engineer, although consideration will be given to candidates having HNC/HND combined with substantial operational and management experience. You will hold a corporate membership of a relevant professional body e.g. CIBSE and have demonstrable Team leader experience. Our core priority JRHT strives to be a housing association that is sustainable and engaging, providing high quality and continuously improving services and decent affordable homes in well managed communities prioritising those in greatest need. How to apply To apply, please complete the online application. Closing date for applications is 11th July 2025. Informal interviews will initially take place w/c 14th July to share a more detailed overview of the role. Interviews will take place on w/c 21st July. Please note that we will be shortlisting and interviewing on an on-going basis and reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received. Additional Information We are a values driven organisation and our values drive our behaviours. Were at our best when were continually building on trust, showing we care and making a difference and we hope others will do the same. We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplace, where all colleagues can be themselves. This requires office work along with visiting the Derwenthorpe site working in the Super Sustainable Centre and within the boiler and plant room to review progress on technical upgrades. Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion At JRHT we believe in giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or social economic background. We positively encourage applications from people with experience of living in poverty. As part of our commitment to equity and specifically anti-racism, we operate an anonymised recruitment process so that bias is eliminated from the shortlisting process. We are a Disability Confident Employer. This means that we are committed to the recruitment, progression and retention of disabled individuals. We offer interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the job. If you have a disability, please tell us if you would like to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. TPBN1_UKTJ

Created: 2025-06-27