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Technician representative – sharing your voice with OFTEC

“Why doesn’t OFTEC ever listen to me?” This is something we hear from time to time.

Jon King OFTEC with the new technician rep

Did you know there is a registered technician sitting on our OFTEC Scheme Committee? If you didn’t, perhaps it’s because it’s not been too obvious exactly who this person is and how you can contact them.

So, we are pleased to introduce the new person taking up this important role: Simon Robson, who has been registered on the OFTEC competent person scheme since 2022, working with liquid fuel installations and unvented hot water systems.

Simon is an experienced heating engineer who also works part-time as a trainer at an OFTEC training centre in Yorkshire. That means he meets a lot of heating technicians every week, making him ideally placed to give feedback to OFTEC – both good and bad – on the aspects of being a modern-day heating technician . . .

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