Technical Support Officer

Salix Finance is currently an independent not for profit company established to accelerate public sector investment in energy efficiency technologies. Salix is publicly funded by BEIS, DfE, and the Welsh and Scottish Governments and works with public sector bodies throughout the UK, helping them make progress towards achieving their carbon reduction targets. We do this by offering interest free loans for energy efficiency projects. By joining Salix, you will learn about energy efficiency and its application in the built environment, financing of capital projects, government and client relationship management.

Salix are proud to have been awarded the Investors in People Gold Award and came second in the Sunday Times Top 100 companies to work for in category small companies, not for profit category in 2020.

Job Purpose

Salix works to enable the public sector in the UK to reduce its carbon footprint. Working as a member of the Technical Services Team, the Technical Support Officer will apply knowledge of the sustainability sector, energy efficiency technologies and first principle methodologies for calculating energy and carbon savings to review and assess applications made for Salix funding programmes and provide technical advice to the Salix delivery teams and public-sector clients.

Work Life at Salix

For staff joining Salix we run a comprehensive induction programme to support staff to be successful at work. Every member of staff is in a team and has a named line manager who helps you plan your work and manage your training and development. You will be encouraged to study for further industry qualifications, and you will become an expert in energy efficiency.

Key responsibilities

• Support a teamwork approach to deliver project checking and testing for all Salix funding programmes

• Review supporting information such as energy savings calculations, technical specifications, project costs and business cases, providing feedback on the quality of supporting evidence

• Liaise and maintain a strong relationship with Salix’s technical contractor to deliver testing and checking of business case projects

• Compose and resolve technical queries on projects with public sector clients

• Support delivery teams and clients with building of project pipelines and undertake risk assessments for delivery of projects

• Support with the analysis of energy and carbon savings achieved by Salix funded projects

• Establish, maintain and engage with the improvement of systems and processes for ensuring the effective delivery of key testing targets

• Provide technical advice to the delivery, marketing and finance teams

• Support marketing team with development of marketing material

• Provide technical support at meetings with clients and/or suppliers where required