Senior Service Technician Network

Nottingham City Council; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

26 days annual leave

Pension scheme (defined benefit)

Employee Assistance Programme

Smart Working

Discounted gym memberships

Job summary

Nottingham City Council is seeking a Senior Service Technician to support the operation and maintenance of the district heating network across the city. This hands-on role involves pumps, valves, meters, boilers and CHP plant to ensure safe and reliable heat delivery to customers.

The ideal candidate will hold a Level 3 Engineering Fitter Apprenticeship or equivalent, with experience in pumps, heat exchangers, system balancing and fault-finding.

Qualifications

• Fluent English is essential for this public sector role.
• Hands-on maintenance experience with pumps, valves, heat exchangers and pipework.
• Experience with fault-finding and repair of heating systems and mechanical components.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and operate district heating assets including pumps, valves, meters, boilers and CHP plant.
• Undertake planned and reactive maintenance to ensure safe and reliable heat delivery.
• Participate in on-call rota and communicate with engineers, customers and residents.

Skills

Fluent English

Pumps experience

Fault-finding methods

Communication with engineers

Education

Level 3 Engineering Fitter Apprenticeship

City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Engineering Construction – Fabrication Pipefitting

Job description

Job Description

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: Various

Worker Type: Offsite Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is £36,363 (Level one) rising to £39,152 (Level four) ‘pro rata for part-time’ - pay award pending

Location: Enviroenergy, Nottingham City Council, 12 London Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 3AB

We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

About The Role

Nottingham City Council is seeking an experienced Senior Service Technician to support the operation and maintenance of the district heating network and associated infrastructure across the city.

This is a hands‑on role undertaking both planned and reactive maintenance on key assets including pipework, pumps, valves, meters, boilers and CHP plant, ensuring the safe and reliable delivery of heat services to customers.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• A Level 3 Engineering Fitter Apprenticeship, a City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Engineering Construction – Fabrication Pipefitting, or similar, and/or significant relevant professional experience.
• Demonstratable experience with pumps, valves, heat exchangers, system balancing and pipework behaviour i.e. airlocks and flow restrictions
• Working knowledge of fault‑finding methods and repair of heating systems and mechanical components or assemblies
• The ability to communicate effectively with engineers, customers, contractors and residents.
• This post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) (English Language Requirement for public sector workers) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English, is an essential requirement for the role.
• A DBS check is required for this post.
• The role requires you to participate in the on call rota.

You can find the job description for this post here.

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Robert Aston, Senior District Heating Network Engineer, by email at [e-mail].

Closing Date: 30/09/2026

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date.

Interviews will be held: TBC

About Us

Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working – to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.

We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled – these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.

We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.