Energy Manager

Salary: £42,000 – £48,000 per year

THE ROLE

The Energy Manager is responsible for providing support to a major client’s Energy Team. The Energy Manager will be directed by the client as required but the core responsibilities will be:

• Prioritising, planning, conducting and reporting energy audits to identify energy exception issues within the client’s retail and manufacturing sites.
• Using the audit reports to identify estate-wide rollouts of behaviour change or projects.
• Managing the resolution process of any energy exception issues, including leading calls and meetings with all relevant stakeholders and third-party suppliers
• Liaison with all stakeholders on relevant energy, maintenance and behavioural calls
• Carrying out compliance audits (ESOS)

The Energy Manager will be primarily home-based but essentially embedded within the client organisation and will be required to spend time at the client’s offices.

Ideally, the candidate would live within easy reach of the Leeds/Bradford area, but National travel will also be required.

Through task ownership, the role will help ensure contracted energy and service-based solutions are delivered, renewed and enhanced.

A large part of the role will involve harvesting and processing data from various sources to provide energy use visualisation to drive solutions, improvements and efficiencies.

The position requires a high level of interaction and communication with differing levels of seniority, so the applicant should possess the ability to clearly and concisely present information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. The applicant will be very driven and display excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.

The role will require someone who has a broad range of Building Services knowledge and the ability to manipulate data.

RESPONSIBILITIES

 Energy Operations

• Working with spreadsheets, databases and web-based platforms/tools to review and analyse data sets, such as Energy Consumption, Heating Degree Data, etc.
• Provide solutions and advice on any exceptions or non-performance on the above data sets
• Developing and provision of energy reports relating to Energy Performance
• Provide business cases for large rollout programs related to energy efficiency
• Build databases, analyse and interpret technical data to assist in the provision and development of the company’s solutions and products, especially those that support the client

Relationship Management

• Build strong productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Promote an excellent customer satisfaction environment through effective communication and problem ownership
• Produce reporting for internal and external stakeholders as required
• Act as a trusted advisor and consultant to the client, whilst acting in the company’s best interests
• Be able to work and manage solutions for the client by consulting with specialists in the relevant Building Services or other disciplines

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

 Skills Desired

• Ability to take full ownership of tasks or issues from start to finish
• Strong organisational skills
• Able to demonstrate insight, tact, political acumen and diplomacy skills sufficient to integrate effectively with all stakeholders
• Able to demonstrate research and analytical skills to provide innovation and value to the client
• Able to communicate fluently in writing and present complex technical information clearly and concisely
• Able to absorb new technical information and apply the knowledge effectively
• Customer-oriented, eager to learn, reliable, dynamic, motivated, flexible and a service-minded professional

Qualifications (some or all of the following)

• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word/Excel/PowerPoint)
• Experience with databases or other information points
• Experience in processes and process improvement
• Understanding of contracts, scopes of work, etc.
• Compliance reporting
• Commercial awareness
• Demonstrate experience in customer-facing or internal cross-discipline team role
• Experience in technical, engineering or building services

You must have a Right To Work in the UK – No sponsorship is available

Please note that unfortunately any applicants without the relevant work experience, or the Right To Work in the UK will be unsuccessful.

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Please note, due to the volume of applications we are not always able to contact each applicant individually. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of application, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.