Supporting real change in how energy is used across Gateshead
The Energy Services Team sits within the Council’s Design and Energy service and plays a key role in supporting Gateshead’s ambitions to decarbonise energy and tackle climate change. The team leads on the development and delivery of energy efficiency initiatives, lowcarbon projects and the borough’s District Energy Network, working closely with council services, partners, communities and residents. With a strong focus on innovation, datadriven decisionmaking and practical delivery, the team works at pace to reduce energy use, carbon emissions and costs, while supporting the provision of affordable, lowcarbon heat and contributing to the Council’s Climate Change Strategy and Vision 2030.
Helping deliver practical climate action across the borough
As Energy Services Manager, you will play a vital supporting role in leading the service who to deliver the Council’s energy and sustainability priorities. You will deliver the Council’s vision for energy services to ensure Gateshead is a leader in the field, be strategic lead on energy services, manage commercial operations of Gateshead Energy Company, deliver key performance targets in Thrive, the Corporate Plan and the Group Plan, implement energy and carbon management strategies, co-ordinate the Councils approach to tackling fuel poverty, be responsible for savings to council, housing company and schools utility budgets, develop business cases, deliver and control budgets for major invest-to-save, energy generation and efficiency projects.
This is a fixed term post, to work alongside the current Energy Services Manager whilst we go through a period of change and improvement across Energy Services and the Gateshead Energy Company.
We support flexible working, and are open to discussions for alternative working patterns such as compressed hours or reduced hours, the minimum expectation for this role would be 30 hours per week to meet the workload requirements of the role.
