Job Description
Title: Solar Technical Surveyor
Department: Field Services
Location: Manchester
Salary: £39,024
Make sure to apply with all the requested information, as laid out in the job overview below.
Are you an experienced renewables energy surveyor with a background in commercial and residential assessments?
Do you hold a Level 3 in Core Electrical Competence & a Level 3 award in Verification, Inspection & Testing?
If so, we have a new opportunity for you to join our Field Services department, evaluating proposed installations and working closely with our sales & engineering teams across the UK.
What we can offer you?
We offer you all the benefits you’d expect from one of the nation’s biggest and best energy challengers, including: competitive salary, contributory pension scheme, bonus up to 10% of salary and a health care scheme.
You’ll also get the chance to work for one of the top CEOs in the UK, as voted for by Glassdoor’s 2022 Employee’s Choice Awards
We aim to provide you with a uniquely inclusive and diverse workplace, which showcases the extraordinary in all of us, by enabling you to be the best you can be.
Putting the customer first is part of how we live and breathe at Utilita. Alongside our values – Fairness, Smart and Sustainability – this ethos guides every decision we make.
What does this role involve?
You will conduct on site surveys, to ensure the suitability and safety for potential installations of solar, heat pump systems, EV and battery storage systems.
Day to day, you will;
- liaise customers, engineers and suppliers to ensure a smooth installation process;
- provide detailed reports of installation costings and technical specifications;
- be a point of contact for technical support based on your survey's findings to ensure timelines are met;
- ensure all Utilita’s safety standards and compliance practices are aligned with regulatory obligations.
Who are we looking for?
Your previous experience working in a renewable’s surveyance focused role will enable you to hit the ground running.
You will be great at documenting and providing detailed proposals to allow for cost effective and energy efficient installations.
You will be self-motivated with the ability to plan your day accordingly, to support our teams installing nationwide.
You will have a full UK driving licence and will receive a car allowance as nationwide travel will be required.
To be successful in this role you will be required to pass a security vetting process.
Our employees, just like our customers come from al walks of life, and we're fuelled in championing diversity, inspiring an inclusive culture, and enabling an environment where you can be your authentic self.
Additional benefits available on your first day!
- Utilita Bonus Scheme, made up of personal and company elements.
- Career progression, 32% of our vacancies in 2022 were filled internally.
- Pension scheme, Utilita contribution at 4% of your salary when you contribute 5%
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- The opportunity to win tickets to major outdoor events with Utilita Extra –including, gigs and shows at the Utilita Newcastle, Sheffield, Birmingham and Cardiff arenas and our latest venue the Utilita Bowl in Southampton.
- Discounted employee energy tariffs.
- Exclusive access to discounted offers for home Sky TV and broadband packages.
- Access for you and one other to our partnered Unmind App, where you can watch or listen to videos and podcasts or get hints and tips to understand and improve on your mental wellbeing.
- We offer all our staff a paid volunteering day every year. Plus the chance to be involved in various fund-raising opportunities.
- A health care scheme that includes dental, eye care, treatments, and diagnostics health consultations.
- Death in service, twice your annual salary.
- Employee Assistance Programme with access to counselling support, legal and financial advice 24/7 365 days a year, as well as a GP line and Your Care.
About us
Founded in 2003, Utilita is the first – and still only - energy company created to help households use less energy, by giving them better control via digital technology.
Which is why we were voted Sustainable Tech Company of the Year 2022 in the Southern Tech 100 companies and our industry-leading smartphone app (USwitch Awards won best app 2018, 2020 and 2022).
Utilita is Britain’s leading Smart Pay as You Go energy provider, with over 800,000 customers, and thanks to having better control, its customers use around 11% less energy than the average bill paying household.
Utilita is committed to becoming a net zero business by 2030 and was named Green Energy Disruptor of the Year at the Better Society Energy Awards in October 2021. We are the only supplier created to help customers use less energy, which is why sustainability in one of our core values.
The Luxion Group comprises of the following companies – Luxion Group Ltd, Utilita Energy Ltd, Luxion Sales Ltd, Utilita Field Services Ltd, Procode Technology Ltd and Canary Care Global Ltd.