Electrical Technician

King's College London; London; On-site; GBP 46,964 - 57,401; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious university in London is seeking an Electrical Technician to conduct maintenance and ensure compliance across the Strand Campus. The role involves liaising with contractors, maintaining safety standards, and delivering high-quality service. Ideal candidates should hold a Level 3 electrical qualification, have experience in critical environments, and strong communication skills. This full-time position offers an indefinite contract with competitive pay.

Qualifications

• Must have a Level 3 award or equivalent in electrical field.
• Demonstrable experience in electrical trades is essential.
• IT literate and able to operate specific software for maintenance tracking.

Responsibilities

• Conduct planned and reactive maintenance on university buildings.
• Liaise with contractors for service delivery quality.
• Maintain records of maintenance activities.

Skills

Electrical competencies

Knowledge of engineering designs

Health and safety understanding

Effective communication skills

IT literacy

Customer service skills

Experience in critical environments

Education

Level 3 award/certificate in electrical field

Job description

Join to apply for the Electrical Technician role at King's College London

3 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants

Join to apply for the Electrical Technician role at King's College London

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.

Kings College London is a world class university and the department of Estates and Facilities, Engineering Strand is responsible for maintaining the services across the Strand Campus allowing staff and students to make the most of their time here.

About The Role

Responsible for undertaking planned preventative and reactive maintenance throughout University buildings, whilst ensuring adherence to operational, regulatory and statutory compliance requirements. Ensuring records of planned and reactive maintenance are kept up to date and to a high standard.

The role will liaise with specialist contractors and other building dedicated engineers to maintain high quality service delivery and maximum system uptime. The Electrical Technician will ensure teams and clients (where applicable) are kept up to date on progress.

The Electrical Technician will be expected to optimise and analyse performance, whilst problem solving and offering creative solutions.

• Develop a complete familiarity with the operation and recovery of all business-critical systems within the building portfolio.
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance and report faults and ensure compliance with all relevant guidelines, statutory acts and regulations. Update site-specific work schedules and re-programme regularly.
• Maintain a Safe Systems of Work process and periodically update as may be required.
• Manage and conduct fault finding.
• Conduct statutory system and asset testing and report accordingly.
• Deal responsibly with emergencies and breakdowns.
• Deliver and comply with all statutory, client specific environmental, health, safety and quality standards applicable to the University environment.
• Minimise the risk of plant failure and breakdown and promote a reliability centred and conditioned based proactive maintenance process.
• You will be expected to deliver a high level of customer focused service and participate in training when required (Fit for King’s, etc).

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

• Level 3 award/certificate in electrical field or equivalent or time serviced apprenticeship (Electrical) and strong, demonstrable competencies in electrical trades
• Good knowledge of engineering designs, installations, maintenance and repairs
• Good understanding of health and safety processes and policies
• Effective communication skills in order to convey information clearly
• IT literate (Excel, Teams and Microsoft packages) and ability to work from an iPad to manage through our CAFM system
• Excellent customer service skills with the ability to offer guidance on requests
• Knowledge and understanding of working in critical environments
• IOSH Managing Safety course

Full details of the role and the skills and experience required, can be found in the attached job description which provided on the next page.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology, Analyst, and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Higher Education and Utilities

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at King's College London by 2x

Get notified about new Electrical Technician jobs in London Area, United Kingdom.

London, England, United Kingdom £52,183.00-£52,183.00 1 month ago

London, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago

Wembley, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago

London, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago

Electrical and Instrumentation Technician

London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Wembley, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

London, England, United Kingdom 2 hours ago

Barking, England, United Kingdom 4 days ago

London, England, United Kingdom 4 weeks ago

Tilbury, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

Multi Skilled Technician (Electrical) - London

London, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago

Romford, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

London, England, United Kingdom 2 months ago

London, England, United Kingdom £45,000.00-£52,500.00 2 hours ago

London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

London, England, United Kingdom 2 months ago

London, England, United Kingdom 4 days ago

Tonbridge, England, United Kingdom 2 days ago

London, England, United Kingdom £25,000.00-£45,000.00 1 month ago

Electrical Improver - Ventilation Systems

Bromley, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

Hounslow, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago

We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.