Contract Type: Fixed Term – 18 Months

Working Hours: 37 per week

Worker Type: Offsite Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is £46,142 (Level one) rising to £49,282 (Level four) ‘pro rata for part-time’

Location: London Road Heat Station, 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 .

About the Role

The post holder will be working for Nottingham City Council, Enviroenergy department as a Lead Electrical Engineer. The post holder will be required to undertake high quality electrical work; mechanical installations or associated infrastructure works of a specialist nature on a local and national basis. The role predominantly supports our local district heating customer base but will also include works on the national domestic properties within our portfolio of clients. 

The post holder will have a varied and exciting role, servicing and maintaining the current prepayment solution installed in Nottingham district heating properties, installing our own in-house decentralised energy payment metering solution the EE Monitor, commissioning of these and undertaking all other installation works, this could be fitting a router, installing a data logger solution, or installing a heat meter on site and any other associated works as required. 

The post holder will be required to undertake work on the prepayment metering upgrade project for 5000 domestic properties in the City. 

The work will involve the removal of the old prepayment units and installation of the new prepayment unit, associated commissioning of this and completion of minor works certificates. 

Although the post is predominantly looking after our Nottingham district heating network customers, the post holder may be required to travel across the UK to complete works as and when required, with some overnight stays required for ongoing contracts. 

Nottingham City Council Enviroenergy are an innovative forward-thinking team; the post holder will be heavily involved in the development and delivery of new solutions to the decentralised energy market. Training will be provided to the successful candidates.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

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.

- The role requires you to participate in the on-call rota.

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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 for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact David Nicoll, Customer Service & Transformation Manager, by telephone on 07548 159143 or by email at

Closing Date: 14/11/2025

Interview Date: TBC

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